Latest security news.
Security experts not surprised the Mac was hacked, 04/26/07: Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi sent a shudder through the Macintosh community late last week when he successfully hacked the Mac with an exploit that he sent to a friend attending the CanSecWest security conference. By gaining shell access to a Mac by pointing the Safari Web browser at a specially-constructed Web page, Dai Zovi won a $10,000 prize from 3Com’s Tipping Point division — and took a lot of Mac users by surprise. Click here for more.
What can NAC do for you now?, 04/19/07: We conducted the industry’s largest public test of available NAC products, and found that for very simple NAC tricks, either architecture will do. In both cases, once you step out of the world of Windows clients, IT personnel will be pushing the bleeding edge of security technology, and need to be prepared for a longer-than-normal testing and deployment schedule. Check out the test results here.
Video: Harvard Business School shores up security and saves money, 04/30/07Watch now.
This will make the MBA candidates coming out of Harvard Business School happy: When the school shored up security through a number of means, it ended up saving $220,000 a year in bandwidth charges. John Arsneault, director of network operations at HBS, explains how on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap.
E-mail harvesters hit with $1 billion antispam lawsuit, 04/26/07: A $1 billion lawsuit filed Thursday promises to open up a new front in the battle against spam: It targets not just spammers, but — for the first time — also those responsible for harvesting e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers. Click here for more.
