Latest security news.
Podcast: Top Security Threats for 2007, 12/20/06
Are the major security threats of the past few years going to continue, or are there new security threats on the horizon that a network manager needs to know about?
Websense announces deal to buy PortAuthority, 12/20/06
Websense announced an agreement today to acquire start-up PortAuthority Technologies, a maker of data-leak prevention equipment, for about $90 million.
Twisted Pair: Yuletide spectacular, 12/21/06
Keith and Jason get ready to kick off the holidays with news of logic bombs, vista security exploits for sale, data breaches, Firefox patches and Christmas shopping. Plus, the Pair reveal their favorite Christmas movies of all time.
Man indicted for planting ‘logic bomb’ in IT systems, 12/20/06
Facing a possible layoff from his job as an IT systems administrator, a 50-year-old New Jersey man was charged Tuesday with planting malicious “logic bomb” code into the company systems where he worked that could have damaged more than 70 servers.
Kaspersky: Vista will not changes security concerns, 12/20/06
Vista’s arrival will not thaw Microsoft’s security misery, the CEO of Russian security company Kaspersky Lab has said in a chilly broadside against the software giant.
Apple to get a month of security bugs, 12/19/06
Apple will soon be a member of the “month of bugs” club.
EFF sues U.S. agency over travel data-mining system, 12/19/06
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, demanding the agency turn over information about an “invasive” data-mining system used to assess the terrorist threat posed by U.S. travelers.
