Latest security news.
New attack puts routers, cell phones at risk, 04/19/07
A security researcher at Juniper has developed a new form of attack that can be used to run unauthorized software on a wide range of computing devices, including routers and mobile phones.
Podcast: Protecting data inside and outside the network, 04/20/07
How do you protect data on the network for inside threats or keep it safe even outside the corporate boundaries? Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) may hold the key. Like digital rights management (DRM) for music, ERM helps control access and rights to data wherever it resides. Ed Gaudet, vice president of product management and marketing for Liquid Machines, explains the technology to Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve.
Lawmakers grill U.S. agencies on cyberattacks, 04/19/07
Lawmakers expressed concern Thursday that multiple U.S. agencies whose networks were hacked recently can’t be sure they’ve fixed their vulnerabilities because of poor cybersecurity practices.
Spammers, hackers seize on Virginia Tech shootings, 04/19/07
Spammers and hackers are using the slayings at Virginia Tech as a gory lure to infect computers with malicious software, security experts noted Thursday.
Limited attack potential from Microsoft DNS worm, 04/19/07
While Microsoft has not yet said when it will release a patch to fix an under-attack flaw in its server software, most properly protected servers should not be vulnerable.
Where’s the virtual security?, 04/18/07
Deployment of products that transform physical servers into “virtual machines” has resulted in nothing short of a data center revolution. But virtualization of everything from operating systems to applications increasingly has critics asking: Where’s the security?
What VMware thinks about security, 04/18/07
Enterprises should be able to adapt their security practices pretty naturally to VMware environments, an executive at EMC’s virtualization outfit says.
Data security takes center stage, 04/18/07
Stan Quintana, managed-security services vice president at AT&T in Bedminster, N.J., agrees with Passmore that federation is critical to securing data moving across intranets and extranets.
Single-victim spam attacks skyrocket, 04/18/07
Micro-managed attacks that consist of one e-mail targeting one person are up more than 10 times over last year’s levels, a message security company said Tuesday.
A smart outbound content management strategy, 04/18/07
No one should treat outbound content management as a panacea. “But it is a good first-line defense,” says Richi Jennings, lead analyst for e-mail security at Ferris Research. Where do these tools fit into your overall security strategy? A comprehensive plan includes these five steps:
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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