Latest security news.
Black Hat Conference puts spotlight on NAC, Vista and rootkits, 07/31/06
The annual Black Hat Conference, which opens July 29 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, brings together security researchers and vendors in a freewheeling atmosphere aimed at laying bare the risks and vulnerabilities in IT products.
Qwest offers to manage migrations to MPLS, 07/27/06
Qwest announced a network migration service for customers looking to replace frame relay and legacy data services with MPLS-based offerings.
VPNs Newsletter: VPNs winning converts from frame relay, 07/27/06
VPNs have pretty much buried frame relay as a WAN technology, according to a survey by Forrester Research.
Novell NetWare Newsletter: ENGL automates deployment of Windows desktops, 07/27/06
ZENworks, in general, and Martin Buckley in particular (he’s director, product management of Novell’s Identity Products Business Team but best known as the …
Security Strategies Newsletter: DRM-roll for consumer privacy protection, 07/27/06
The Norwich University MSIA program is blessed with gifted students who become gifted alumni. Robert Guess is an …
Virus and Bug Patch Alert: Patches for Ubuntu, Gentoo and Debian, 07/27/06
I am still taking opinions on the question “What’s better, a long or complex password?” I pose this to you after InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes issued a …
Microsoft finalizes acquisition of VPN vendor Whale, 07/27/06
Microsoft has finalized its purchase of SSL VPN vendor Whale Communications, a deal Microsoft hopes will be viewed not only for its remote access potential but also its ability to improve application performance over VPN links.
Trojan cloaks itself as Firefox extension, 07/26/06
Security vendor McAfee has detected a new piece of malicious software that masquerades as part of the Firefox Internet browser.
IronPort rolls out bounceback-verification technology, 07/26/06
IronPort Systems today said it’s added a bounceback-verification technology to its line of e-mail security appliances in order to protect corporations against spam-based denial-of-service attacks based on large volumes of bounceback messages.
ISP News Report Newsletter: Five IPv6 tips from an early adopter, 07/26/06
If you’re wondering what to do about IPv6 – a long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol – consider the case of the Social …
Identity Management Newsletter: Your online reputation precedes you, 07/26/06
Last spring we were talking about reputation as a component of identity (see “Reputation as the new currency of identity” and “Why reputation works as an …
Missing laptop with data on 540,000 state workers found, 07/26/06
A laptop computer containing personal information on more than half a million New York state workers has been found after it disappeared May 9 from the offices of a third-party data management company.
Q&A: Secure Computing aims for gateway security, 07/26/06
Earlier this month, Secure Computing announced plans to acquire privately-held messaging security vendor CipherTrust for $273.6 million in cash and stock. The combined company will sell a range of enterprise gateway security appliances designed to …
