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Antivirus, firewall and IDS products

• July 14, 2006 14 Jul'06

  CSI survey: Data breaches still being swept under the rug

  The annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey shows companies are reporting fewer financial losses from data breaches. That doesn't mean the good guys are winning.

• July 11, 2006 11 Jul'06

  Critical flaws found in Excel, Flash Player

  FrSIRT says holes in Microsoft's spreadsheet program and Adobe's media player could allow attackers to take control of affected machines and initiate malicious commands.

• July 10, 2006 10 Jul'06

  Security Bytes: Data breach affects 100,000 military personnel

  Meanwhile: Phishers use a phone trick to dupe PayPal users; the PCI security standard will get more teeth and a survey illustrates an increase in security breaches

• June 26, 2006 26 Jun'06

  Dundee to teach ethical hacking BSc

  A degree in ethical hacking will be on offer at a Scottish university from the new academic year.

• June 13, 2006 13 Jun'06

  Fifa ready for cyber attack on World Cup

• June 01, 2006 01 Jun'06

  BlueCat appliance offers rock-solid security

  Hot Pick: The Adonis 1000 appliance bundles DNS and DHCP into an enterprise-class appliance for the centralized secure operation of network addressing.

• March 07, 2006 07 Mar'06

  Networks news in brief

  Short takes from this week's network news

• December 14, 2005 14 Dec'05

  Roundup: 2005's 'curious malicious code'

  These viruses, worms and Trojans sometimes escaped our notice. But it didn't get past one antivirus vendor, who rounded up some of the year's stranger offerings from the underground.

• December 12, 2005 12 Dec'05

  Two Windows patches coming, IE fix uncertain

  It remains to be seen whether the software giant on Dec. 13 will address an outstanding Internet Explorer issue that is currently the target of a malicious Trojan.

• November 14, 2005 14 Nov'05

  Sony rootkit uninstaller causes bigger threat

  Princeton researchers say a security hole that appears when users try to remove Sony's copy protection software presents an even greater risk than the original rootkit.

• November 06, 2005 06 Nov'05

  Hacking Windows: MSRPC vulnerabilities

  In this excerpt from "Hacking Exposed, Fifth Edition: Network Security Secrets & Solutions," authors Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz introduce MSRPC vulnerabilities and countermeasures.

• October 24, 2005 24 Oct'05

  Reporter's Notebook: NYC 'controls the software industry'

  At Information Security Decisions: a security "rock star" rages against the Microsoft machine; banging the drum for enterprise security; a sour note on zero-day exploits.

• October 20, 2005 20 Oct'05

  Author delves into novel attack methodologies

  Review of Silence on the Wire, a book about security attack methodologies such as passive fingerprinting.

• September 27, 2005 27 Sep'05

  Secure your extended enterprise

  How do you achieve the fine balance between ensuring that there is truly free access to sensitive information, without sacrificing security?

• September 26, 2005 26 Sep'05

  Secure the interests of your extended enterprise

  How do you achieve the fine balance between ensuring that there is truly free access to sensitive information and applications from both inside and outside the firewall, without sacrificing security?

• September 18, 2005 18 Sep'05

  CCSP courses, exam changing next month

  Those seeking Cisco's security credential and specialization in VPN, firewall and IDS will soon follow different curricula that better reflect the vendor's current product lines.

• September 11, 2005 11 Sep'05

  VoIP turns up the heat on firewalls

  New research shows that many organizations are increasingly concerned about VoIP security and plan to augment their firewalls within the next year, changing the landscape of the firewall market.

• September 06, 2005 06 Sep'05

  Firewalls can help or hurt, so plan carefully

• September 05, 2005 05 Sep'05

  Extending perimeters

  The news that, up until 2006, 70% of successful wireless local area network (WLAN) attacks will be because of the misconfiguration of WLAN access points and client software is disquieting on a number of levels.

• September 01, 2005 01 Sep'05

  Symantec glitch could expose user names, passwords

  Symantec announced a fix for a flaw in AntiVirus Corporate Edition Friday afternoon. The security hole could be exploited to view user names and passwords.

• August 26, 2005 26 Aug'05

  High profile breach brings security to top of agenda

  There’s nothing like an apparent breach at a global company to concentrate the mind when it comes to information and data security.

• August 06, 2005 06 Aug'05

  Trusted Computing Group releases server specs

  The Trusted Computing Group released a new set of trusted server specifications it hopes will help vendors protect their platforms against security breaches.

• July 28, 2005 28 Jul'05

  Sarbox compliance costing companies

  Companies’ required investments to attain compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley data security legislation has come at the expense of dealing with other security threats, according to the Information Security Forum (ISF).

• July 24, 2005 24 Jul'05

  Authentication takes a bite out of spam

  Network and messaging experts offer helpful ammunition for network managers waving the white flag in the battle against spam.

• July 21, 2005 21 Jul'05

  Sarbox draining corporate security budgets

  Corporate investment to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley data security legislation has come at the expense of dealing with other security threats, according to the Information Security Forum (ISF).

• July 20, 2005 20 Jul'05

  Pop quiz: E-mail security

  Find out how much you know about securing your organization's e-mail.

• July 12, 2005 12 Jul'05

  Sarbox challenge drains security budgets

  International corporate spending on compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley data security legislation has come at the expense of dealing with other security threats, according to the Information Security Forum.

• June 05, 2005 05 Jun'05

  Quiz: Secure Web directories and development, answer No. 1

  Quiz: Secure Web directories and development, answer No. 1

• June 05, 2005 05 Jun'05

  Quiz: Secure Web directories and development, answer No. 2

  Quiz: Secure Web directories and development, answer No. 2

• June 04, 2005 04 Jun'05

  Life at the edge part 2: Divide and conquer with DMZs

  Learn how a DMZ works and how it can protect Web servers.

• June 03, 2005 03 Jun'05

  Quiz: Identify and analyze Web server attacks

  Test your knowledge of the material covered in the "Identify and analyze Web server attacks" section of Intrusion Defense School.

• June 02, 2005 02 Jun'05

  Quiz: Web attack prevention and defense

  Test your knowledge of the material covered in Web attack prevention and defense, including the fundamentals of securing a Web server.

• May 31, 2005 31 May'05

  Network configuration: IIS SMTP mail relay service and Microsoft Exchange Server

  Learn how to use the IIS SMTP mail relay service to prevent spammers from directly interacting with your Microsoft Exchange Server.

• March 16, 2005 16 Mar'05

  RootkitRevealer turns root kits' tactics back at them

  A contributor reviews freeware RootkitRevealer from Sysinternals.

• January 05, 2005 05 Jan'05

  New solutions for the zero hour

  IT vendors are looking to fill the gap between when a virus first hits and when its remedy is released.

• December 20, 2004 20 Dec'04

  Fixes, workaround for Kerberos 5 vulnerability

  A security hole could be exploited to launch malicious code. But there are fixes and a workaround.

• November 30, 2004 30 Nov'04

  Botnets target the enterprise warn experts

  Versatile and increasingly vicious bots will cause enterprises a lot of grief in 2005, security experts say.

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  NTFS permissions

  This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" discusses the advantages of using NTFS for access control.

• October 27, 2004 27 Oct'04

  Spamming the universe

• October 04, 2004 04 Oct'04

  Symantec offers bare metal restore software

• August 27, 2004 27 Aug'04

  Over-specify when buying low cost replacement for Frame Relay

  A project manager reveals how a VPN saved £275,000 a year

• July 25, 2004 25 Jul'04

  Know Your Enemy -- Learning about Security Threats: Chapter 8, Legal Issues

  Find out more about the legal issues swirling around the use of Honeypots.

• June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04

  Users at risk after web host attack

  Users have been warned to brace themselves for attacks on sites which provide patch downloads and web hosting services.

• June 01, 2004 01 Jun'04

  From exposition to exploit: One security book's story

  A new manual that discloses vulnerabilities may have had a hand in compromises at supercomputing centers this spring.

• April 15, 2004 15 Apr'04

  Bacs launches online billing service

  UK clearing house Bacs has embarked on a joint venture with a US software company to provide an online bill presentation and...

• February 06, 2003 06 Feb'03

  Users warned as number of software holes soars

  IT departments were put on alert this week after it emerged that the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in commercial...

• February 07, 2002 07 Feb'02

  Victory! Lords confirm CW stand - software flaw could have caused Chinook crash

  An historic House of Lords report has this week vindicated a five-year campaign by Computer Weekly for justice after the crash of...

• March 13, 2001 13 Mar'01

  Government trials digital signatures on mobile phones

• January 24, 2001 24 Jan'01

  Government Gateway due to launch today

  Ministers were today (25 January) hoping to officially launch the Government Gateway, the middleware project that will allow...

• March 29, 2000 29 Mar'00

  MoD did not tell the whole truth on Chinook software

  Letters from software experts to Computer Weekly show the Ministry of Defence omitted to mention it sanctioned the very testing...