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Firewall deployment options increase for enterprises

With a growing number firewall configuration options, companies need to spend more time and put more effort into determining how to design and deploy firewalls.

Immunity says debugger tool will cut zero-day attacks

Zero-day exploits, where worms or viruses are used to attack computers before their vulnerability is publicly announced, could be dramatically reduced if a tool created Immunity is adopted, said the company.

‘Man in the middle’ phishing attacks to surge, says RSA

Security supplier RSA has warned of a likely surge in "man in the middle" (MITM) phishing attacks after it discovered free hacking kits are being circulated.

Companies ignore reputation threat from data breaches

Three out of four consumers will go elsewhere rather than do business with a company that has publicly breached customer confidentiality.

Naive Facebookers face fraud threat

About 40% of Facebook users are willing to give information that ID thieves could use to clone their identities, says security software house Sophos.

Novell to acquire Senforce for endpoint security

Novell is acquiring Senforce, an early network access control supplier, to integrate its endpoint security features and develop an endpoint management suite.

Apple iPhone to provoke complex mobile attacks, expert warns

Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said he expects mobile malware attacks to escalate thanks to interest in Apple's iPhone.

Microsoft to release nine security patches tomorrow

Microsoft will release nine security patches tomorrow (14 August) as part of its monthly security patching cycle.

Sans Institute offers security courses at RSA event

The Sans Institute is offering two network security courses at this year's RSA Conference Europe in London.

PandaLabs spots killer Shark malware

PandaLabs is warning web users of the Shark 2 malware, a highly flexible tool for creating Trojans on users' PCs.
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