Latest security news.
New content filters monitor outbound traffic, 06/26/06
IT organizations have learned the hard way that leakage of confidential information, whether it trickled out inadvertently or passed through in a calculated fashion, can levy heavy damages against market share and brand reputation, and potentially …
Best EAP for an enterprise wireless LAN, 06/26/06
What is the best EAP type to use when setting up an enterprise WLAN?
Nutter’s Help Desk: Protecting roaming users, 06/26/06
It seems like more and more of the employees in our company are travelling with laptops that have wireless capability. Management has expressed a concern of charges they are seeing from some of the hotels that we use on a regular basis for internet …
Backup consumes big chunks of budgets, study shows, 06/26/06
The wild expansion of data requiring replication and protection is a key challenge for IT, according to a recent biannual storage study by TheInfoPro, an IT market research company.
Three IPS products pass security evaluation tests, 06/26/06
ICSA Labs’ first tests evaluating intrusion-prevention systems have yielded just three that made the grade out of 10 submitted for review.
MessageLabs updates hosted Web security, 06/26/06
MessageLabs this week is expected to announce an upgrade to its Web security service offering greater threat protection and integration with its e-mail and instant-messaging products.
Symantec plans early warning system, 06/26/06
Symantec is expected to offer by the end of September an early warning advisory service to Web surfers about known phishing and otherwise suspicious Web sites.
Setting technical criteria for outbound content monitoring, 06/26/06
A Q & A on setting technical criteria for monitoring outbound content.
Online banks strengthen security, 06/26/06
About five times a month, customers try to renege on purchases and transfers they’ve made through their SolidPay e-wallet accounts by claiming they’re victims of fraud. Each time the data gathered through SolidPay’s authentication system proves they’ …
One man’s fight against rootkits, 06/26/06
While rootkits used by malicious hackers are obviously bad, there are arguments as to whether rootkits could be used in commercial software for good purposes. What’s your view?
Symantec to exit security appliance business, 06/23/06
Symantec this week laid off staff and said it is shaking up its network and gateway security business, ending the company’s experiment with security hardware appliances.
Layer 8: Microsoft accused of predatory pricing, 06/23/06
The Register starts its latest Microsoft story with: “Microsoft has been accused of potentially stifling innovation in the security sector and threatening to kill the competition through predatory pricing.” We…
Layer 8: Hacker hit U.S. cows, 06/23/06
For Pete’s sake, not even our cows are safe from hackers. According to the AP, hackers broke into an Agriculture Department network and stole names, Social Security numbers and photos…
Security Blog: Bad week for the feds, 06/23/06
Just when the uproar over the massive data loss at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs …
TorrentSpy names hacker and details attack, 06/23/06
TorrentSpy named the hacker who it claims broke into its computer systems on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America, as part of a legal request that would force the MPAA to turn over documents stolen from the Internet file-searching company.
FTC laptops stolen, along with personal data, 06/23/06
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is notifying 110 people that two laptop computers containing their personal data were stolen from a locked vehicle.
Security vendor warns of porn-clicking browser, 06/23/06
A free Web browser that bills itself as a tool for privacy protection is, in fact, a click-fraud engine for pornographic Web sites, security vendor Panda Software warned Friday.
Tool deletes Microsoft piracy alarm, 06/23/06
A security analyst has released a tool that lets users remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notification, part of Microsoft’s controversial campaign against software counterfeiting.
