Cisco Systems and Microsoft have released details to customers about how the Cisco Network Admission Control (Nac) and new Microsoft Network Access Protection (Nap) systems will interoperate.
Also this week: A researcher gets a harsh reward after flagging a University of Southern California Web site flaw, and more blogs are keeping an eye on the latest security breaches.
Edmund X. DeJesus explains that when personal relationships go bad and partners can access each other's accounts, trust can quickly give way to betrayal, and corporate information security can pay the price.
Security news including Cisco, Mozilla hires a former Microsoft strategist to bolster security, a new "pump-and-dump" stock spam campaign is discovered and TippingPoint lists info on new flaws.
Computer Associates has confirmed that its eTrust Antivirus software crashed Windows Server 2003 systems last week, as a result of tagging an element of the server as malware.