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Shavlik Updates Security Suite To Manage Virtual Machines

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:31:51 +0000

Shavlik Technologies added capabilities that enable the Shavlik Security Suite to manage IT operations for both physical and virtual worlds, including offline virtual machines.

The Shavlik Security...

Microsoft Confirms IIS Zero-day Flaw; Exploit Code Published

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:30:15 +0000

Microsoft late Tuesday confirmed the publication of exploit code for a serious code execution vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0.

WSJ: Keeping Your Site Out Of Hackers' Clutches - At Cost

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:31:41 +0000

Riva Richmond of the Wall Street Journal tells small companies how to to protect themselves against hackers. It's the same story again, but now the Nation's respectable paper adds some protection advises as the attacks are growing. 

India Could Become Cyber-crime Hub

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:31:03 +0000

India is vulnerable to cyber crimes as 97 per cent of Indians, who use information technology, are not aware of how to be secure, and the situation has been further complicated with the surfacing of the 10 minute E-mail.Cautioning that India could become one of the potential hubs of cyber crimes, the director of Intelligent Quotient Security System, Pune, Mr Herald D’Costa said, “10 minute E-mail

Security Firms Lag Behind At The Launch Of Snow Leopard

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:29:56 +0000

Three of the major IT security firms Symantec, McAfee and PGP are lagging behind on getting their Mac products ready for the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Rolling Stone: The Boy Who Heard Too Much

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:30:42 +0000

Rolling Stone: The Boy Who Heard Too Much

Trojan Targets Skype Users

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:31:34 +0000

TrendLabs researchers were alerted of a newly released Proof-of-Concept (PoC) that listens and records voice calls carried out via Skype. Trend Micro detects this as TROJ_SPAYKE.C. Skype is a popular application used for making voice over IP (VoIP) calls.

Encrypted Is Not A Boolean Variable

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:30:11 +0000

Let's face it, encryption is a new thing, and you have to keep things simple so people can understand it.
But it frustrates me that most of the talk about encryption technology, law, policy, compliance, etc is always in terms of "encrypted" vs "unencrypted". Yeah, all your data should be encrypted. But that's the beginning of the discussion, not the end. Encryption is easy. Protecting data is hard.

Spam Linked To DDoS Attacks Against Social Networking Websites

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:30:08 +0000

In early August, a number of very well-known social networking websites were reported to be victims of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to MessageLabs, the attacks appear to be ...

SANS Forensics: Flash Cookie Forensics

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:32:04 +0000

SANS Forensics: Flash Cookie Forensics

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