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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 759 days ago
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1293532658;fp;16;fpid;0By Rodney Gedda Computerworld11/02/2008Australia's national authority for signal intelligence and information security, the Defence Signals Directorate, will install an additional 50 servers to facilitate the operations of its computer network vulnerability team.The DSD computer network vulnerability team, part of the information security group, conducts vulnerability assessments, IT security incident response, research and development, an read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 757 days ago
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/021208-blackberry-outage-blame.htmlBy Brad ReedNetworkWorld.com02/12/08Research in Motion (RIM) said Tuesday that recent upgrades it performed on its security infrastructure were to blame for the service outages that hit its BlackBerry devices this week.RIM said in a statement that its initial investigation into the outages pointed to problems with the BlackBerry service infrastructures internal data routing system, which had been recently upgraded to increase overall read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 734 days ago
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http://news.theage.com.au/egames-to-test-infrastructure-security/20080306-1xnn.htmlThe AgeMarch 6, 2008Australia will join global counter-terrorism war games to test the security of vital resources including dams, power stations, telephone exchanges and banks.Attorney-General Robert McClelland will announce the federal government's involvement in Cyberstorm II."Governments that take national security seriously can't turn a blind eye to the threat of cyber-terrorism," Mr McClelland said.Cyberstorm read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 717 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: vmware focuses improving virtual infrastructure comments Discuss  
VMware plans to improve virtual infrastructure through technologies such as high availability, automatic restart, better tolerance, and masking of hardware failure, and site disaster recovery, the company's chief scientist and co-founder, Mendel Rosenblum, told reporters in Bangalore on Monday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 686 days ago
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152335-1.htmlBy Ben BainFCW.comApril 24, 2008The United States is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks that could have catastrophic effects on critical physical infrastructure, and severely damage the country's economic, military and strategic interests, cybersecurity specialists said today.The conventional strategic thinking that has driven defense efforts over the past century is becoming irrelevant in today's networked world, according to specialists from the U.S. Cyber read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 637 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: scada security bug exposes worlds critical infrastructure comments Discuss  
Oil, food and plane industries at riskGasoline refineries, manufacturing plants and other industrial facilities that rely on computerized control systems could be vulnerable to a security flaw in a popular piece of software that in some cases allows attackers to remotely take control of critical operations and equipment.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 637 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/12/scada_vuln_discovered/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register12th June 2008Gasoline refineries, manufacturing plants and other industrial facilities that rely on computerized control systems could be vulnerable to a security flaw in a popular piece of software that in some cases allows attackers to remotely take control of critical operations and equipment.The vulnerability resides in CitectSCADA, a software product used to manage industrial control mechanisms kno read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 577 days ago
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Microsoft is starting a program to bring security vendors into the loop on vulnerabilities before Patch Tuesday. Other infrastructure vendors such as Sun Microsystems and Apple could benefit users by following suit with similar programs. - When Microsoft announced plans Aug. 5 to share information on vulnerabilities with security software vendors as part of the Microsoft Active Protections Program, the company underscored what could be a shift to a new era of cooperation in the name of security.In light read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 541 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: challenges securing virtual infrastructure comments Discuss  
Hezi Moore, founder and CTO of Reflex Security, discusses the challenges organizations face when building out their virtual environments in this eWEEK interview. - Virtualization has become almost a no-brainer for organizationslooking to optimize resources. But as the number of virtual machines increases,so, too, do management and security concerns.eWEEK Labs Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant recently spokewith Hezi Moore, the founder and chief ... read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 485 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:02:15 -0600 (CST)http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=106902By Robert McMillanIDG News Service11 November 2008Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not as secure as they should be and insiders are feeling angry.That's according to a new survey released Monday that asked management, network engineers and administrators in nine infrastructure industries about the state of cyber security in the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 485 days ago
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Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not as secure as they should be and insiders are mad. read more »
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