* Be secure: Think like bad guys * LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data theft victims * Liberty Alliance extends identity specification * Microsoft discloses five critical security holes * Return Path takes over IronPort’s white list service * Today on Layer 8
You’ve heard of ethical hacking – using hacker techniques to find vulnerabilities in a corporate network with the intent of plugging them up. But ethical phishing? Is it ethical to bait your own employees? Security managers at a recent conference argued that it sometimes can be – and they shared their techniques. Be secure: Think like bad guys http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/041105infosec.html?net
You’ve heard of ethical hacking – using hacker techniques to find vulnerabilities in a corporate network with the intent of plugging them up. But ethical phishing? Is it ethical to bait your own employees? Security managers at a recent conference argued that it sometimes can be – and they shared their techniques.
Be secure: Think like bad guys
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/041105infosec.html?net
LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data theft victims
The security problems at LexisNexis are much more serious than previously thought. Instead of a single security breach affecting 30,000 people, you have 59 unauthorized accesses affecting 310,000.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0412lexis2800.html?net
Liberty Alliance extends identity specification
The Liberty Alliance, a consortium of users and vendors developing specifications for sharing identities across the Internet, on Tuesday released three drafts for extensions to its work that would tie identity into contact books, presence and location services.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0412lib.html?net
Microsoft discloses five critical security holes
Microsoft Tuesday released eight security bulletins on its products, including five concerning vulnerabilities rated “critical.”
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0412microdiscl.html?net
Return Path takes over IronPort’s white list service
E-mail security gateway maker IronPort Tuesday announced it has struck a deal for e-mail performance management company Return Path to take over its Bonded Sender white list service.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0412whitelist.html?net
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Internet2’s an illegal file-sharing hot spot; storage meets “Schoolhouse Rock”; U.S. troops to be armed with laptop-triggered mines; and which is better for posterity: blogs or e-mail?; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
