Security

July 22, 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:57 AM/EST

DNS Case Shows Hackers May Be Maturing

Given all the fuss over a recently exposed DNS flaw that has the potential wreck all kinds of havoc across the globe, you might easily conclude that we're not making a whole lot of progress when it comes to...

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July 10, 2008

Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:34 AM/EST

End User Training Needs to Be a Higher Security Priority

Every where you look these days you see IT organizations that have dedicated some portion of their staff to being the patch police. They spend a fair amount of their days applying and prioritizing patches to help prevent the...

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June 18, 2008

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:56 PM/EST

Looking for a Security Cure

Everywhere you go these days every body is talking about the latest and greatest tools for securing the network and encrypting your data, but you have to ask if any of these efforts are dealing with anything more than...

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June 10, 2008

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:27 PM/EST

Security Needs to Come up a Few Notches

There seems to be an increasing lack of confidence in the overall state of security. On the face of things, it's little wonder. Every day we seem to read about yet another security breach and after a while all that...

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June 4, 2008

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:37 PM/EST

Figuring Out the Return on Security Investments

One of the bigger problems facing folks that have been put in charge of security is amount of money it takes to keep defenses in place on an ongoing basis. A recent study conducted by Baseline, a sister publication of...

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May 22, 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:36 PM/EST

Google Indexes Stolen Data

One of the more interesting implications of discovering sites that are housing stolen personal data is that eventually Google and other search engines discover that data as well. According to Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak not only are the number of...

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May 15, 2008

Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:56 AM/EST

Zombies Are Taking Over

The biggest problem with spam may not be so much the people that send it out as much as all the people that let spammers compromise their systems to forward spam to everybody else. A recent report from the folks...

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May 8, 2008

Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:33 PM/EST

NAC Security in Our Time

While there is a whole lot of conversation going on these days about network access control (NAC) the adoption rate surrounding these technologies has generally failed to keep pace with the amount of talk. That may improve somewhat in the...

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May 5, 2008

Monday, May 05, 2008 7:41 PM/EST

More Cyber Crime Than We Realize

One of the problems with trying to determine the amount of any given criminal activity is that most of the estimates, such as the amount of drugs being smuggled into the country, are based on the volume of that activity...

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April 9, 2008

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:57 PM/EST

Tougher Times Give Security as a Service a Boost

Just about everywhere you turned at the RSA Security this week somebody was talking about delivering security as a service. For example, AT&T plans to expand its managed security service to include offerings that manage encryption and allow developers to...

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