Security

VeriSign changes prompt privacy warnings, anger

Mirapoint helps university dodge Sobig bullet

* Covering all the Sobig bases

Aventail gives access rights based on trust

* Aventail enables users to centrally set access rights

Law of Vulnerabilities

* Jim Reavis shares a report of his recent visit to the Black Hat Briefings

DemoMobile: Start-up makes mobile middleware

SSH and Sendmail patches

* Patches from Trustix, Gentoo, others * Beware e-mail Trojan that attempts to exploit IE flaw * Hackers find way to exploit latest Microsoft hole, and other interesting reading

TruLogica improves context-based ID mgmt. system

New Internet worm targets e-mail, P2P software

Virtela expands VPN offerings

* Start-up Virtela sees growth in broadband access to corporate VPNs

Host-based intrusion prevention

* Host-based intrusion-detection systems