Latest security news.
Acquisitions fill gaps in Symantec security line, 10/24/05
Symantec is still spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to develop new products, but the company recently stepped up spending on acquisitions as well to bolster its offerings.
Symantec testing database security appliance, 10/24/05
Engineers within Symantec’s R&D organization have built an appliance that could eventually lead the company into the database security business.
Net access control on tap from Juniper, 10/24/05
Juniper Networks this week plans to unveil a policy management appliance, a key piece of a secure network access scheme designed to rival those of Cisco and Microsoft.
Gartner event focuses on security, 10/24/05
With many keeping one eye on Hurricane Wilma churning off the coast, 6,000 IT executives last week heard Gartner analysts offer their vision on everything from security trends to wireless network directions.
Plan for smooth recovery after breach, 10/24/05
Predefined response programs should be implemented before a security incident occurs, say IT executives who have dealt with public breaches and exposures of identity and financial data.
Responding to a security breach, 10/24/05
CIOs and network administrators offer tips about how to respond following a network security breach.
Deciphering the world of crypto, 10/24/05
It’s the computational magic for scrambling data to keep it secret, and in the U.S., the best-known cryptographic algorithms go by names such as Triple-DES and AES. But in other countries, such as South Korea, Russia and Japan, it is SEED, GOST and …
My adventures in anti-spam, 10/24/05
Five lessons learned when installing anti-spam software
School nixes malware with open source, 10/24/05
A team of IT staffers at the University of Indianapolis last week showed off a bundle of open source tools and scripts it uses to trap and isolate PCs infected by viruses or spyware
App IDS guards databases, 10/24/05
Application security implements traditional network- and operating system-level intrusion-detection system concepts at the database level
Banking regulators urge stronger authentication for online accounts., 10/24/05
Federal regulators last week issued new Internet banking standards that will require adoption of stronger authentication methods by the end of next year.
Enterasys beefs up WLAN security, 10/24/05
Enterasys last week announced wireless LAN access points and a wireless switch for controlling and securing Wi-Fi network access.
ICMP packet surge from Exchange server, 10/24/05
Recently, I noticed that there has been a surge in ICMP packets between some of my Active Directory controllers and Exchange servers. Virus scanning proved that the servers were clean. Is there any explanation for this phenomenon? – Alex Ang
Microsoft patch problems continue, 10/21/05
Windows users are continuing to experience problems with Microsoft’s latest round of security patches. This time a problem with a critical patch relating to Microsoft’s DirectShow streaming media software is leaving some Windows 2000 users unprotected …
