Latest security news.
VoIP security roadmap, 05/15/06
VoIP has finally arrived as a mainstream application, so security is important when you’re replacing the world’s oldest, largest and most resilient and available communications network.
Sarbanes-Oxley: Too much for too little?, 05/15/06
Faced with a tidal wave of complaints about high costs and implementation difficulties, federal regulators say they will consider modifying rules and auditing standards related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Hot Seat video: Securing SIP, 05/16/06
As SIP is starting to make inroads into the enterprise, new SIP security threats are rearing their ugly heads. How do you fight them? Covergence CEO Bob O’Neil explains in this week’s Hot Seat.
Technology Update: Security analyzers target vulnerabilities, 05/15/06
Protocol abuse targets vulnerabilities in many types of devices and applications, from firewalls, VoIP controllers and VPN gateways to intrusion-prevention systems and other perimeter defense.
Opinion: Are Microsoft’s super cookies good for you? 05/15/06
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Microsoft a patent for “super cookies.” Are they good for you?
Opinion: Spammers and hackers: Evolving to be better, 05/15/06
In any human activity where there is a course of action with a great enough incentive, humans have evolved to try to take advantage, even when the risk is relatively great. The result is that Darwinian-style evolution is creating humans who get better …
Opinion: Emerging wireless attacks, 05/15/06
What are the emerging types of wireless attacks and how can they be combated?
Owl worm puts printers in a flap, 05/12/06
It sounds like a throwback to the 1980s, but security company Sophos has reported the existence of a new “prank” worm that hijacks network print queues to perform a uniquely ludicrous stunt – it attempts to print a large picture of an owl.
Oracle platform targets security, 05/12/06
Oracle last week set in motion the second phase of its multiyear, three-prong plan to develop an integrated suite of identity management software using the piece parts it acquired over the last two years.
