Standard offers best practices for ISPs to fight botnets 

Standard offers best practices for ISPs to fight botnets

In Hackers - By Chuck Miller, 18 September 2009 9:54 AM
A group charged with developing and promoting internet standards has published a new draft standard calling for measures that internet service providers can use to defeat botnets.
International health information security standard and best practices issued 

International health information security standard and best practices issued

In Risk - By Sue Marquette Poremba , 11 September 2008 9:53 AM
A new standard spells out detailed controls for managing health information security.
PCI payment standards come into play 

PCI payment standards come into play

In Risk - By Clement James, 1 July 2008 9:47 AM
Companies have been warned to be aware of Section 6.6 of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard that comes into force today.
Bug exposed in web security standard 

Bug exposed in web security standard

In Web/client - By Robert Jaques, 11 June 2008 10:19 AM
VBAAC flaw in the standard web authorisation technology could affect hundreds of thousands of sites, security experts have warned.
PCI council unveils payment application standard 

PCI council unveils payment application standard

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 17 April 2008 10:07 AM
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council has officially taken over control of a new data security standard from Visa.
Visa: Most merchants in compliance with PCI security standard 

Visa: Most merchants in compliance with PCI security standard

In Risk - By Jim Carr, 25 January 2008 9:47 AM
More than three-quarters of large U.S. merchants, and nearly two-thirds of medium-sized retailers, are in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI ...
PCI council to take over secure application standard 

PCI council to take over secure application standard

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 8 November 2007 2:43 PM
The body charged with managing and promoting the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) announced today it will soon administer another set of merchant ...
ISF releases new good practice standard 

ISF releases new good practice standard

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 17 October 2007 10:07 AM
The Information Security Forum (ISF) has revised its good practice guidelines.
Retail lobby offers alternative to PCI standard 

Retail lobby offers alternative to PCI standard

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 8 October 2007 10:20 AM
The world's largest retail lobby today announced a plan that might free merchants from some of the most complex requirements of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard.
Industry lines up behind enhanced SSL standard 

Industry lines up behind enhanced SSL standard

In Web/client - By Tom Sanders, 10 November 2006 4:55 PM
Microsoft plans to add support for the upcoming Extended Validation standard for SSL certificates this January through a software update to the Internet Explorer 7 browser.
Microsoft opens up anti-spam standard 

Microsoft opens up anti-spam standard

In Messaging - By Tom Sanders, 25 October 2006 10:10 AM
Microsoft has released its Sender ID Framework specification under the company's Open Specification Promise.
Payment card companies announce new PCI organization, update standard 

Payment card companies announce new PCI organization, update standard

By Ericka Chickowski, 8 September 2006 12:34 AM
The five leading payment card companies joined together today to update to announce the formation of an independent council to manage and enforce the Payment Card Industry ...
ArcSight simplfies SIM with new standard 

ArcSight simplfies SIM with new standard

By Ericka Chickowski, 24 August 2006 1:44 AM
One of the industry's leading enterprise security management software vendors released a new open log management standard on Tuesday that may make it easier to collect and ...
Federal IT security well below self-set standard 

Federal IT security well below self-set standard

By Ericka Chickowski, 16 March 2006 10:31 PM
The U.S. House Government Reform Committee released its Federal Computer Security Scorecards today, and the results were not good for most government agencies.
Yahoo teams with Cisco on email authentication standard 

Yahoo teams with Cisco on email authentication standard

By Marcia Savage, 1 June 2005 8:14 PM
Yahoo and Cisco Systems have collaborated on an authentication technology that aims to thwart email forgery by verifying emails' address of origin.
Commerce Secretary approves federal ID standard 

Commerce Secretary approves federal ID standard

By Marcia Savage, 3 March 2005 5:11 PM
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has approved a new smart-card based identification standard for federal agencies.
New standard helps companies trust network connections 

New standard helps companies trust network connections

By Illena Armstrong, 10 May 2004 8:51 PM
A security specification currently in the works strives to help companies safeguard their networks from worms, viruses, software vulnerabilities and denial of service attacks ...
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