Latest security news.
$10,000 Mac hack affects Windows too, 04/24/07Click here for more.
The bug that helped security researcher Dino Dai Zovi claim a $10,000 prize at last week’s CanSecWest security conference affects Windows systems too.
Microsoft: No patch yet for DNS Server bug, 04/23/07Click here for more.
Microsoft’s security team Sunday said it is still working on a patch for a critical bug in the company’s server software.
Groups raise concerns about cybersecurity standards, 04/24/07Click here for more.
Legislation that would authorize the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to create emergency perparedness standards for private industry takes the wrong approach toward cybersecurity, some experts said Tuesday.
Microsoft business client security due next month, 04/24/07Click here for more.
The business client security product Microsoft has been working on since 2003 will finally make its debut in May, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday.
Europe considers network security portal for SMBs, 04/24/07Click here for more.
The European Union is considering a system that would alert small and medium-size businesses to network and information security threats.
From Cisco Subnet: Cisco warns of crafted IP option vulnerabilityClick here for more.
Cisco IOS routers and switches may be vulnerable to a remotely exploitable crafted IP option DoS attack, according to a Cisco advisory.
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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