Latest security news.
Cisco confirms HTTP unicode encoding evasion: The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has reported a network evasion technique using full-width and half-width unicode characters that affects several Cisco products. Click here for more.
Microsoft tweaks Patch Tuesday advance notification, 05/16/07: Microsoft is changing the way it documents its monthly security patches. Click here for more.
Software piracy hits $40B worldwide, says study, 05/15/07: Efforts to curb software piracy in China are bearing fruit although the piracy rate remains high, costing vendors billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a survey paid for by large vendors, including Apple and Microsoft. Click here for more.
IBM contractor loses employee data, 05/15/07: An unnamed IBM vendor has lost tapes containing sensitive information on IBM employees, the computer maker confirmed Tuesday. Click here for more.
Password policy management feature slipped into Longhorn, 05/15/07: Microsoft has quietly added a password management feature to Longhorn Server that will let administrators assign password policies based on users and groups regardless of what domain they reside in. Click here for more.
Aventail SSL VPNs can be extended to smartphones, 05/16/07: Aventail SSL VPN gear now supports VPN security for smartphones based on the Windows Mobile operating system. Click here for more.
