Latest security news.
Identity attack spreads; 1.6M records stolen from Monster.com, 08/20/07: The 46,000 people reportedly infected by ads on job sites may be only a fraction of the victims of an ambitious, multi-stage attack that’s stolen data belonging to several hundred thousand people who posted resumes on Monster.com, a researcher said this weekend.
Gunplay blamed for Internet slowdown, 08/21/07: ISPs in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire.
Skype: Network felled by Windows Update, 08/20/07: The two-day outage last week of Skype peer-to-peer VoIP services was triggered when users of the software installed Microsoft patches and rebooted their computers, which also serve as nodes in Skype’s network.
Podcast: A trio of technology for disaster recovery: Silver Peak Systems’ Craig Stouffer tells how virtualization, WAN optimization and data deduplication are coming together in next-generation disaster recovery plans.
Keeping remote workers safe through NAC, 08/20/07: With many employees accessing corporate data systems from home PCs, Xilink decided to put a NAC implementation in place to ensure that the remote systems were up to the company’s secure computing policies.
