Latest security news.
Microsoft piracy plan means work, concerns for IT, 10/05/06
Microsoft’s antipiracy plan announced this week is a slap at a multimillion dollar problem, but it leaves a number of questions especially for volume licensing customers who will have to devise new administrative and management plans to ensure their …
Twisted Pair Podcast: From the HP boardroom to prison?, 10/06/06
Back from DEMOfall, Jason and Keith talk about five indicted HP folks – will customers and/or share price be impacted?;
Heavy sentence handed to cyber-blackmailers, 10/05/06
Three Russians who succeeded in extorting money from online gambling websites based in the U.K., have each been jailed for eight years.
Microsoft to fix Windows, Office security flaws, 10/05/06
With hackers exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software, Microsoft plans to issue 11 security updates next Tuesday.
Symantec’s Norton Confidential to ship next week, 10/05/06
Symantec’s new Norton Confidential identity protection software is set to ship on Monday.
VPNs Newsletter: Juniper introduces new SSG routers to protect branch offices, 10/05/06
Juniper is announcing nine new models of its secure services gateway (SSG) routers, scaled down to protect branch offices.
Security Strategies Newsletter: PSYOP in action, 10/05/06
PSYOP is the abbreviation for “psychological operations,” a part of information warfare that includes both distribution of accurate information and propaganda campaigns …
Cartoon: E-voting and e-passports, 10/05/06Seller of telephone records settles FTC charges, 10/05/06
An Internet business that sold people’s telephone and credit-card records has agreed to settle charges that it violated U.S. law, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday.
Reported Firefox flaw a hoax, 10/05/06
Today’s bug patches and security alerts …
Identity Management: Passwords are so last century .. but some still swear by them, 10/04/06
If you follow NCAA college football, you’re probably aware that Penn State’s head coach, Joe Paterno, has been in that job seemingly forever. When …
Appeals court: Government wiretapping can continue, 10/04/06
A National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapping program can continue while President George Bush’s administration appeals a ruling by a Michigan judge who said the program was illegal.
Prevention is better than cure, 10/04/06
Encryption supplier PGP has announced NetShare, an encryption product for sharing Windows files securely around a network. It has also updated other security offerings as NetShare on its own is not enough.
St. Bernard Software to buy managed security service, 10/04/06
Security vendor St. Bernard Software plans to acquire Singlefin, a provider of hosted security services.
Swift CFO quizzed by Euro Parliament about data privacy, 10/04/06
Executives from the financial data transfer company Swift and the president of the European Central Bank faced tough questions in a European Parliament committee meeting Wednesday, about the illegal sharing of private data with U.S. authorities.
Audit: DOE agency’s systems vulnerable to cyberattacks, 10/04/06
The information systems used by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), are vulnerable to cyberattacks because cybersecurity programs now in place do not meet federal guidelines, according to a …
ADT asks for extension to analog wireless sunset, 10/04/06
ADT Security Services, a large provider of security alarm systems for homes and businesses, plans to file a request asking the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to delay the 2008 sunset in which wireless telephone carriers can stop supporting …
AT&T offering consulting services for SMBs, 10/04/06
AT&T announced Wednesday a suite of professional services designed to help firms with small or no IT staffs make the best network, communications and security decisions.
HP inks seven-year deal with Pepsi, 10/04/06
HP, struggling under a boardroom spying scandal, continues to gain new business and on Wednesday announced that it has signed a seven-year deal with PepsiCo to provide data center management services for the soda and snack maker’s international division.
Windows Vista, Longhorn to get new antipiracy measures, 10/04/06
Microsoft will introduce a new system for fighting software piracy with its upcoming Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server operating systems, the company said Wednesday.
Vulnerable PC found in DHS inspector general’s office, 10/04/06
The Department of Homeland Security’s office of the inspector general, which is responsible for auditing the department’s information security practices, is itself doing a poor job protecting sensitive data on laptops computers.
Secure Computing teams with Workshare on compliance appliance, 10/04/06
Secure Computing announced Wednesday a new version of its IronMail messaging security appliance that works with Workshare’s compliance technology.
