BOSTON—Gathered in the subterranean confines of a decommissioned vault in the basement of the Boston Stock Exchange, a panel of IT security experts told the assembled crowd that short of locking all their proprietary information in such a contraption, there may be little hope for securing their data.
Microsoft had a small surprise in this week’s security patches, but it was no surprise to find two critical vulnerabilities. Learn what was different this month in the Security Alerts and Updates section.
Everybody wants a better Internet, but look carefully before you install the program that promises it. Go to our adware alert in this week’s Top Threat section to see why.
NEW YORK — Microsoft has every intention of working with networking giant Cisco on network access control protocols in its next version of Windows, the head of Microsoft’s security technology unit said at an event here Monday.
Silex Technology America said Monday it has released a biometric system that requires a fingerprint swipe before a user can access an enterprise wireless LAN.
The company said that its Bio-NetGuard product is aimed at protecting corporate wireless networks from intrusions.
Windows Vista’s new security features will so annoy users that Microsoft won’t meet its goal of 400 million copies in two years, a research analyst said Monday.
Although Microsoft touts Vista as its most secure operating system ever and is relying on security as a prime marketing message to corporations, the Yankee Group’s Andrew Jaquith sees it as somewhat of an albatross.
Recently there has been a growth industry in pundits whining about the security of the Apple Mac OS X operating system. To read some of the coverage, you would think someone deciding to use OS X instead of Windows would have to be dumber than a fence post. Methinks the security worries are rather misplaced and may be the result of hyperventilating, nontechnical reporters and some gloating on the part of Windows users.
There’s another zero-day attack on Internet Explorer. There are conflicting claims about how serious it is, but read about how serious it could be in the Zero-Day IE Attack section.
Everyone’s got their own names for malware attacks, but AV-Test keeps track of them all. Get a cross-reference list of names for attacks on the famous “WildList” in the Malware Cross-Reference section.
APRIL 28, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Vendors at the Infosec Europe 2006 conference in London this week showed products that could hasten the demise of the idle surfer at work. With employees being blamed for security woes faced by enterprises, increasingly their online activity is being monitored to keep their attention squarely focused on work.
A start-up security company on Friday unveiled a beta of zero-day exploit protection software that it claims will protect users’ PCs until they can apply patches from the likes of Microsoft.
SocketShield, which can be downloaded free-of-charge from the Web site of Exploit Prevention Labs, is a signature-based monitor that detects and blocks vulnerability exploits, not the worm or virus or spyware or Trojan horse payloads that traditional anti-virus software sniffs out.
Delegates at Infosec gave a resounding dismissal to a motion supporting VoIP deployment. The debate, “this house believes that the business advantages of VoIP outweigh the security concerns” ended in a fairly unanimous thumbs down, which implied security professionals don’t think the technology is ready for big money corporate rollouts.
