Security

VPN/firewall, SSL sales see sluggish growth

* Sales of VPN/firewall gear flat, sales of SSL equipment down, report says

Sobig’s success prompts calls for secure e-mail

‘Homeless hacker’ Lamo surrenders to feds

Combating spam

* Anti-spam weaponry

Much ado about patch management

* Patches from SuSE, Debian, Conectiva * Beware 9/11 viruses * CSI: Lost e-mails, and other interesting reading

Study: ISPs should block ‘Net attack ports

Hackers jump through holes in Microsoft patch

IP2 packets: A threat?

XKMS does the heavy work of PKI

Strengthen your borders

* Firewalls, wireless security and perimeter security