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Taking the pain out of selecting a NAC vendor 

Taking the pain out of selecting a NAC vendor

In Web/client - By Ericka Chickowski, 24 September 2007 10:31 AM
Controlling risk on a large network can be a daunting task, which is why it is no surprise that there are a maze of solutions for the problem, albeit with extremely divergent ...
Lost: Disk with personal information of 2.9 million US residents  

Lost: Disk with personal information of 2.9 million US residents

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 11 April 2007 10:03 AM
Georgia health officials reported today that a vendor working with the Georgia Department of Community Health is missing a disk containing the names, birth dates and Social ...
Storm worm strikes again on Easter claiming Iran attack  

Storm worm strikes again on Easter claiming Iran attack

In Messaging - By Ericka Chickowski, 11 April 2007 9:47 AM
Security researchers discovered a spate of new variants of the Storm worm making the rounds this weekend through emails reporting fictitious news of the United States attacking ...
VeriSign: Increased domain name fees for security 

VeriSign: Increased domain name fees for security

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 10 April 2007 10:58 AM
VeriSign announced this week that it will raise registry domain name fees for .com and .net addresses by seven percent this October, per a December 2006 deal inked with the ...
Secunia reports Kaspersky vulnerabilities as highly critical 

Secunia reports Kaspersky vulnerabilities as highly critical

In Applications - By Ericka Chickowski, 10 April 2007 10:48 AM
Secunia yesterday released a highly critical advisory for multiple vulnerabilities in several Kaspersky Lab products that could allow remote attackers to access or steal files ...
Experts: Microsoft should consider change in patching process 

Experts: Microsoft should consider change in patching process

In Applications - By Ericka Chickowski, 10 April 2007 10:29 AM
Several security experts criticised Microsoft this week for not releasing a fix earlier for the Windows ANI flaw, calling for the company to reassess the way it handles ...
Microsoft to release ANI patch a week early 

Microsoft to release ANI patch a week early

In Applications - By Ericka Chickowski, 3 April 2007 10:13 AM
Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will release an out-of-band patch to fix a vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling (ANI) that some security experts are calling ...
Forty percent of companies report disruptions due to malware 

Forty percent of companies report disruptions due to malware

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 2 April 2007 5:51 AM
More than 40 percent of companies worldwide reported business disruptions due to malware to Webroot Software researchers, the company reported this week.
Microsoft denies claims of Xbox Live hacks 

Microsoft denies claims of Xbox Live hacks

In Applications - By Ericka Chickowski, 26 March 2007 12:18 AM
Despite claims of Microsoft Xbox Live user account fraud, Redmond executives this week denied any major security breaches in its multiplayer gaming system.
Red Hat patch numerous OpenOffice flaws 

Red Hat patch numerous OpenOffice flaws

In Applications - By Ericka Chickowski, 23 March 2007 12:52 AM
Debian released a patch to fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenOffice that open up the users' systems to compromise, Secunia reported on Wednesday.
New Trojan compromises accounts from 300 organisations 

New Trojan compromises accounts from 300 organisations

In Networks - By Ericka Chickowski, 21 March 2007 3:14 AM
Three hundred companies and government organisations have been attacked by a new Trojan with multiple variants that gets around SSL protections, a researcher with SecureWorks ...
OpenBSD flaw exploits IPv6 weakness 

OpenBSD flaw exploits IPv6 weakness

In Web/client - By Ericka Chickowski, 15 March 2007 12:06 AM
Researchers released an advisory today disclosing a remote kernel buffer overflow flaw in the OpenBSD operating system that they claim is the first exploitable IPv6 vulnerabilit...
Viacom sues Google and YouTube for $1.27bn 

Viacom sues Google and YouTube for $1.27bn

In Hackers - By Ericka Chickowski, 14 March 2007 7:34 AM
Viacom officially lodged a US$1 billion lawsuit against Google and YouTube for copyright infringements, the media conglomerate announced today.
US$3m frozen after pump-and-dump hacking  

US$3m frozen after pump-and-dump hacking

In Messaging - By Ericka Chickowski, 13 March 2007 1:16 AM
A US federal judge froze US$3 million in assets from a Latvian bank's US trading account accused of orchestrating what the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is calling "a ...
Trojan Bayrob targets eBay users 

Trojan Bayrob targets eBay users

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 8 March 2007 1:41 AM
Symantec warned eBay users that a sophisticated Trojan is seeking to scam them with a man-in-the-middle attack.
McAfee names new president and CEO 

McAfee names new president and CEO

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 6 March 2007 12:55 AM
McAfee's board of directors named Dave DeWalt as McAfee's new chief executive officer and president, the company said today in a late-afternoon announcement.
Survey: Insiders are biggest threat to intellectual property 

Survey: Insiders are biggest threat to intellectual property

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 6 March 2007 12:34 AM
A new survey has found that more than half of enterprises believe that the biggest threat to their sensitive information is through the action of malicious or negligent ...
New attack blends rootkits with HTML-injections to phish users on the fly 

New attack blends rootkits with HTML-injections to phish users on the fly

In Applications - By Ericka Chickowski, 5 March 2007 12:10 AM
An organised crime network is distributing new malware that takes advantage of rootkits and a state-of-the-art HTML injection to phish consumers on the fly as they browse the ...
Rinbot not as serious as CNN reports 

Rinbot not as serious as CNN reports

In Web/client - By Ericka Chickowski, 2 March 2007 1:33 AM
Security experts claimed that a CNNMoney report today on the latest strain of the Rinbot worm overhyped the destructive power of the malware.
PatchLink's Harris buy could help both companies 

PatchLink's Harris buy could help both companies

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 2 March 2007 12:30 AM
PatchLink Corporation on Monday announced it has acquired the STAT Guardian Vulnerability Management Suite from Harris Corporation.
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