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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=145663By Kelly Jackson HigginsSenior EditorDark ReadingFebruary 11, 2008The industry is just one multi-million-dollar corporate data breach away from waking up to the serious and often-silent threat of corrupted DNS resolution servers, says DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris.Mockapetris -- who is also chief scientist and chairman of the board for network naming and address vendor Nominum -- says the recent research on corrupted DNS resolution servers by researchers read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 267 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: healthcare organizations cyberattacks growing threat comments Discuss  
Healthcare organizations feel under increasing attack from the Internet, while security incidents involving insiders and disappearing laptops with sensitive data are piling up. On top of that, there's now the prospect of a surprise audit from the federal government agency in charge of overseeing the HIPAA security and privacy rules. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 263 days ago
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http://www.military-information-technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=2354By Cheryl GerberMilitary Information TechnologyVolume: 12 Issue: 2Feb 28, 2008Although the global outsourcing of software development and the expanding use of commercial software have dropped the price and often boosted the quality of software, the practices have also raised the rate of malicious code attacks. That has presented a potential national security risk that the Department of Defense and a number of companies are battling with read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 259 days ago
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p strong Researchers are clamoring that this is the year you must deal with mobile security or get hit by strong strong phishing and malware attacks on the devices in your employee s pocket. strong p ...SOLVE MORE ISSUES on the first call. Try WebEx FREE Zap remote support issues. Crush support log jams. Blast through firewalls. Try WebEx Remote Support now! read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 245 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: unified threat management rebounds comments Discuss  
The concept of UTM (unified threat management) and the devices that fit into the product segment are at long last finding a home in some enterprise IT environments. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 241 days ago
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Protecting the secrets of a uranium enrichment plant should be enough to keep any CIO very busy. But when Sarbanes Oxley mandated even tougher controls on databases containing key financial information, David Vordick, CIO of USEC, a $1.9 billion public company that operates a gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Ky., knew he was going to get even busier. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 224 days ago
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_16/b4080032218430.htmBy Brian Grow, Keith Epstein and Chi-Chu TschangBusinessWeekCover StoryApril 10, 2008The e-mail message addressed to a Booz Allen Hamilton executive was mundane—a shopping list sent over by the Pentagon of weaponry India wanted to buy. But the missive turned out to be a brilliant fake. Lurking beneath the description of aircraft, engines, and radar equipment was an insidious piece of computer code known as "Poison Ivy" designed read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 219 days ago
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http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39188638,00.htmBy Nick Heathsilicon.com15 April 2008Q&A: Scott O'Neal, computer intrusion head, FBI cyber divisionScott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers.The cyber division is one of the faster growing operational departments within the FBI. The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber s read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 219 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: malware threat lists slammed useless comments Discuss  
Security vendor PC Tools has questioned the usefulness of the threat lists used by many security companies to warn of current malware attacks. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 212 days ago
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In response to mounting criticism from security and privacy experts, Apple has changed the way its Software Update program pushes out the Safari Web browser to Windows users. But the changes may not go far enough for many people because the browser is still being disguised as a security update. A screenshot of how the the old updater offered Safari. Cupertino has long used the The Apple Software Updates to deploy iTunes and QuickTime patches...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 210 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn critical infrastructure central cyber threat comments Discuss  
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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