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The Global State of Information Security 2006: Big Firms vs. Small Firms.
When it comes to security, bigger isn’t always better.Sure, large companies tend to have more strategic and effective security operations …News
Microsoft Preps Protocol for Grid Computing
Microsoft is developing a security language for grids, designed to deal with some of the security issues raised by grids’ …News
Phishing Attack Detected Against Barclays Bank Clients
PandaLabs has detected a large-scale phishing attack targeting clients of Barclays Bank’s online services, and involving at least 61 variants …News
Microsoft Patches New Office Flaw
Microsoft has released its monthly set of security patches, fixing a critical flaw in Office.Attackers could exploit the bug by …News
Lawmakers: U.S. Lacks Cybersecurity Leadership
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to take several basic steps to protect the nation’s cyber infrastructure, …News
Microsoft Patches Same Explorer Hole for 3rd Time
Among the security patches released by Microsoft Tuesday is an Internet Explorer fix that is now being distributed for the …News
Report: 2 Moroccans Jailed for Releasing Zotob Worm
Two Moroccan men have been jailed for releasing the Zotob computer worm, which wreaked havoc on an estimated 250,000 Windows …News
Juniper, Symantec Team for Enterprise Security
Juniper Networks and Symantec will jointly work on unified threat management (UTM) and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) products, and …News
Lucent Firewalls Get a Speed Boost
Lucent Technologies is putting the pedal to the metal in its new VPN firewalls for carriers and large enterprises.On Monday, …News
Enterprise Security Spending Up Since 9/11
For years, Roy Bordes has been attending corporate security conventions at which exhibitors push video surveillance, alarm systems or bullet-resistant …News
9/11: IT Security Then and Now
Since terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, the government has begun a robust, and oft-criticized, electronic-surveillance program, but …News
Record Number of Phishing Sites Seen in July
Cybercriminals created a record number of phishing websites in July and also hijacked a record number of brands to help …News
IT Security Lags Five Years After Sept. 11
1. "IT Security Lags Five Years After Sept. 11,"InfoWorld, 9/7. It’s nearly five years since the deadly terrorist …News
CIOs Need Say in Security Legislation
With privacy and security breaches now making news almost daily, there has been a recent spate of legislation aimed at …News
Algorithms to Calculate Terrorist Behavior
National ICT Australia (NICTA) scientists are developing advanced surveillance technologies including software algorithms to track "inappropriate behavior" in public places.The …News
Hitachi Targets Cars, Videos With New Hard Disks
Hitachi hopes to win market share from rival Toshiba with three new high-capacity hard drives that will reach the digital …News
Security – First Phishing, Now Vishing
Now that identity thieves have almost perfected phishing, they’ve moved on to “vishing”: Scammers are using voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone numbers …News
FBI Demos Terrorism Database
The FBI has constructed a database that houses upwards of 659 million terror-related records drawn from more than 50 of …News
Man Gets 19 Years for Child Porn Charges
A Wichita, Kan., man was sentenced to 19 years in prison Tuesday after sharing child pornography videos in a Yahoo …News
AT&T Web Store Hacked, Up to 19K Affected
AT&T confirmed Tuesday that its online store had been hacked and the credit card information and personal data of up …News
AOL 9.0 Accused of 'Badware Behavior'
AOL’s free Internet client software has earned the company a slap on the wrist from StopBadware.org, a consortium set up …News
Microsoft 'Longhorn' Aims for Server Security
While not due for general release until this time next year, Microsoft’s next-generation server platform, code-named Longhorn, will be a …News
BEA to Make India Its R&D Hub
Enterprise infrastructure software vendor BEA Systems plans to make India its worldwide R&D hub, to take advantage of the highly …News
Sophos Offers Free Rootkit Detection Tool
Sophos has released a free tool to help PC users root out rootkits.Called Sophos Anti-Rootkit, the software will detect and …News
IBM's ISS Bid to Broaden Security Portfolio
IBM’s move to buy Internet Security Systems (ISS) is another example of the company’s strategy to grow its product offerings …News
Microsoft's August IE Patch Contains Security Bug
Instead of making the browser more secure, Microsoft’s August Internet Explorer security update introduced a critical security bug, according to …News
Microsoft, Citrix to Team on New Security Appliance
Microsoft and Citrix Systems plan to co-develop a new line of branch office appliances that will combine Microsoft’s Internet Security …News
Microsoft Fixes Memory Bug in Security Patch
Microsoft has fixed a bug in a critical security patch that may have been causing problems for some Windows Server …News
Microsoft: Asian Countries to Lead Tech R&D
Asian countries are playing a bigger role than ever before in the development of new technologies, and the region’s importance …News
Japanese Internet Crimes Hit Record High
The number of Internet-related crimes in Japan in the first six months of this year hit a record high, according …News
U.K.-to-D.C. Flight Diverted to Boston Due to Unruly Passenger (UPDATED)
Since this story was originally reported, it has been updated to include the Transportation Security Administration’s rebuke of the report mentioning …News
Cisco Can't Reproduce Black Hat Flaw
Cisco Systems has been unable to reproduce a security flaw reported in its PIX firewall appliance earlier this month, the …News
Apple Updates Mac Pro Security
Apple has released Security Update 2006-004 for Mac Pro and Mac OS X Server v10.4.7 (Universal).The company recommends all users …News
Google: AOL Breach Wouldn't Happen at Our Co.
The release of a database of online search histories that has gotten AOL into so much hot water could never …News
Microsoft Patch Prompts DHS Warning
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Wednesday that a recently patched Microsoft Windows vulnerability could put the nation’s …News
Microsoft Plays Down Bug Panic
Windows exploit code recently released into the wild is causing confusion in the security world, as it seems to overlap …News
Apple Issues Mac Security Update
Apple has released a new batch of security updates for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.7 client and server Macs.The …News
Hackers Outfox Mozilla's Firefox
An exploit in Mozilla’s Firefox browser has been found that can hijack the software and monitor submit-and-click events.The Infostealer.Snifula, which …Feature
The Quest for Customer Data Integration
Smart CIOs are experimenting with new Web-based technologies to integrate their customer data applications without having to rip out their legacy systems. But before they plunge into the implementation, they need to craft a data management strategy.News
Crisis Management: 4 Not-So-Great Moments in Crisis Management
Covering up After a burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate apartment complex in …News
London Terrorist Bombing and Business Continuity
On the morning of July 7, 2005, Kenneth McCrae left his hotel in central London and headed for Baker Street …News
Authentication Technology Uses Typing Rhythm
What’s the best way to ID a DJ? This is a question that John Heaven thought long and hard about …News
How to Secure an iSCSI SAN
SANs based on Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) can present some daunting security risks to today’s mid-market companies.News
McAfee to Issue Patch on Wednesday for Vulnerability
McAfee will issue a patch on Wednesday for a vulnerability affecting its SecurityCenter application, a security software management tool.The vulnerability, …News
India Attractive Offshore Location Despite Wage Hikes
India is still an attractive offshore location for software development and other IT services, despite increasing staff salaries, according to …News
Huawei, Motorola to Set Up 3G Lab in Shanghai
Motorola and Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies plan to establish a research and development center in Shanghai as part …News
Trojan Cloaks Itself as Firefox Extension
Security vendor McAfee has detected a new piece of malicious software that masquerades as part of the Firefox Internet browser.McAfee …News
CIO Council Releases Updated Info-Sharing Guide
The federal CIO Council released the third version of its Federal Enterprise Architecture Security and Privacy Profile, which is meant to assist …News
Crypto Malware Nearly 'Uncrackable'
File-encrypting Trojans are becoming so complex that security companies could soon be powerless to reverse their effects, a new report …News
Yahoo, Symantec Team Up for Security Service
Yahoo and Symantec on Monday announced the availability of a new co-branded Web security service that will better position both …
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