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‘Evil twin’ Wi-Fi access points proliferate, 04/25/07Click here for more.
The next time you splurge on a double latte and sip it while browsing the Internet via the cafe’s Wi-Fi, beware of the “evil twin.”
Antivirus vendors try new defenses against malware, 04/25/07Click here for more.
The traditional signature-based method to detect viruses and other malware is increasingly seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at which attackers are churning out virus and spyware variants. All of which raises the question: What’s next?
E-mail scammers to victims: Pay up or die, 04/24/07Click here for more.
A new wave of extortion e-mails that threaten recipients with bodily harm and death if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender is circulating on the Internet, according to security vendor SecureWorks.
Banks file class action suit against TJX, 04/25/07Click here for more.
The massive data breach disclosed earlier this year by Framingham Mass.-based TJX Companies appears to have done little to hurt consumer confidence in the company so far. But it is getting the giant retailer into all sorts of legal trouble.
CA makes security a priority, 04/24/07Click here for more.
Security technology isn’t new for CA, but this year at its 12th CA World user conference in Las Vegas the company identified security as one of three focal areas (the others are governance and management). Senior Editor Denise Dubie sat down with Bilhar Mann, senior vice president and general manager of CA security management, to learn more.
Microsoft ups security stance with new labs, 04/25/07Click here for more.
In a move to strengthen its response to security threats, Microsoft Corp. is opening two labs to study the growing amount of malicious software circulating on the Internet, security executives announced Wednesday.
Olympics to bring London IT security challenges, 04/24/07Click here for more.
Britain’s IT industry is likely to see business surge as London prepares to spend at least £1 billion ($2 billion) on security when it hosts the 2012 Olympics.
From Cisco Subnet: Cisco warns of PHP, NetFlow vulnerabilitiesClick here for more.
Cisco responds to a PHP HTML entity encoder vulnerability; warns of default passwords in NetFlow Collection Engine.
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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