Latest security news.
K-12 schools fight to stymie kid hackers, 03/21/05
It’s enough to make you long for the days of spitballs in the classroom. When today’s K-12 students act up, they increasingly are going high-tech by using the school’s network to launch denial-of-service attacks, sending harassing e-mails or breaking into databases to try to change their records.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-hacker-kids.html?nl
Clear Choice Test: Should IE stay or should IE go? 03/21/05
Microsoft’s dominant browser is being challenged by open source upstart Mozilla Firefox, but in our testing neither browser scores a knockout punch.
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/032105ie.html?nl
Compliance pressures still mounting, 03/21/05
Regulatory requirements, mainly Sarbanes-Oxley, continue to squeeze IT budgets and staff.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105sarbanes.html?nl
How to SOC it to the bad guys, 03/21/05
A security operations center is becoming an enterprise must-have.
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2005/ndc2/032105soc.html?nl
Symantec: spam, phishing grow, botnets shrink in ’04, 03/21/05
A new report released by security company Symantec found that incidents of online identity theft scams, also known as “phishing attacks,” skyrocketed in the second half of 2004, as did spam and new software vulnerabilities.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0321symanspam.html?nl
When trust isn’t enough, 03/21/05
Internet expert K.C. Claffy talks about next-generation security architectures.
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2005/ndc2/032105qa.html?nl
CipherTrust bolsters compliance, 03/21/05
E-mail security vendor CipherTrust announced last week an upgrade to its gateway appliance with a compliance control feature designed to help customers adhere to regulatory and corporate policies.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-ciphertrust.html?nl
Forum airs wireless worries, 03/21/05
Large corporations face a number of daunting issues – from device administration to service-level consistency – as they look to increasingly mobilize their workforces, according to experts at last week’s CTIA Wireless 2005 conference.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-ctia.html?nl
Taking on Web services with resolve, 03/21/05
Visa takes Web services outside the enterprise to streamline the charge-dispute process.
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2005/ndc2/032105visa.html?nl
Security automation: The next wave, 03/21/05
Beyond virus protection and patch management.
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2005/ndc2/032105auto.html?nl
Security counterattack, 03/21/05
Four experts share the latest research-and-development news.
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2005/ndc2/032105labs.html?nl
Opinion: NSA: Just doing its job, 03/21/05
So maybe it’s time to start protecting communications that you or your company would rather not have become general knowledge in world government circles, and maybe also in industry circles with good government contacts.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/032105bradner.html?nl
SAML 2.0 gets standards stamp, 03/21/05
A standards body has approved the long-awaited Version 2.0 of the Security Assertion Markup Language, a milestone that is expected to add fuel to corporate interest in sharing identities with business partners.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-saml.html?nl
Symantec evaluates threat potential, 03/21/05
Phishing scams and Windows32-based viruses and worm variants are on the rise, according to Symantec, which this week will publish its semiannual Internet Security Threat Report.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032105-symantec-phishing.html?nl
Opinion: Microsoft getting Active Directory right, 03/21/05
Active Directory finally is taking its rightful place as the platform for all sorts of services in the realm of identity management. It finally might be fulfilling its promise.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/032105kearns.html?nl
Opinion: SBC makes DSL, er, exciting, 03/21/05
This has to be one of the most ill-conceived anti-spam tactics I’ve come across. SBC seems to have hardly thought through the issues. Did it send out a notice with its service invoice? Not that I saw.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/032105backspin.html?nl
Security mgmt. vendors tackle compliance, 03/18/05
Security management vendors next week will unveil products to help security managers enforce compliance policies across their networks.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0318simcom.html?nl
Offsite security complicates compliance, 03/18/05
Offsite security conditions are always a factor to consider when a company enters an outsourcing deal, but regulatory initiatives are raising the stakes.
