Latest security news.
Insider Threat: When disgruntled employees get clever, 03/05/07
I’ve heard of disgruntled employees taking company secrets, breaking them into several documents, and e-mailing them to competitors. Is it possible to capture data if it’s leaving the network in multiple formats across different ports?
Black Hat: Think like an attacker, 03/01/07
The best way to develop software applications that can defend themselves against malicious attacks is to think like an attacker.
Telco customers at risk for online privacy breach, 03/02/07
Telcos conducting business online need to buck up customer privacy even as their ability to communicate improves.
Microsoft OneCare takes last place in antivirus test, 03/01/07
Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of 17 antivirus programs tested against hundreds of thousands of worms, viruses, Trojan horses and other malware, an Austrian antivirus researcher reported Wednesday.
Demand building for IPv6 but where are the security products?, 03/01/07
The U.S. government wants civilian and defense agencies to adapt their networks by mid-2008 to support IPv6-based traffic, but the lack of security products to support this transition is causing problems.
Tool cracks Vista activation for the ultrapatient, 03/02/07
A Web site posted a tool Thursday that can apparently crack Windows Vista’s activation process by applying brute force — and lots of time — to come up with valid product keys, circumventing one of Microsoft’s most important antipiracy methods.
Researchers say they peeled The Onion Router, 03/02/07
Researchers in the United States say they’ve successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers and the Web sites they are viewing.
