Security Bytes
September 2007
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3Com acquired by Bain Capital Partners for $2.2 billion
- TechTarget 28 Sep 2007 -
A rough week for Google security
- TechTarget 27 Sep 2007 -
The case for identity-enabled devices
- Senior Analyst 27 Sep 2007
In late 2004, 3Com was in a buying mood when it acquired IPS vendor TippingPoint for $430 million in cash. This past June, 3Com announced it was planning an IPO for its TippingPoint security unit ...
Google's security reputation has been taking a beating in the blogosphere this week, with researchers spotlighting new flaws in the search giant's popular tools. Software developer Giorgio Maone ...
I wanted to highlight an article that debuted on the site this week that was written by Joel Dubin, which makes the case for identity-enabled network devices. On one hand, as Joel writes, the ...
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eBay hacked, user data compromised
- TechTarget 26 Sep 2007 -
Symantec sets its own Halo 3 launch
- TechTarget 25 Sep 2007 -
Reports say hackers hit DHS computers
- TechTarget 25 Sep 2007 -
Microsoft’s BlueHat conference returns this week
- R.I.S.C. Associates 24 Sep 2007 -
Storm worm is not so bad after all
- R.I.S.C. Associates 21 Sep 2007 -
Another day, another Windows zero-day
- TechTarget 21 Sep 2007 -
Is stand-alone AV finally dead? The debate goes on
- TechTarget 21 Sep 2007
eBay is getting a lot of unwanted attention today, after someone managed to post personal contact information and credit card numbers for about 1,200 eBay users on the eBay.com Trust & Saftey ...
The marketing team at Symantec has dreamed up its own competition analogous to the Halo 3 launch set for this week. Symantec wants to turn its customers into Master Chief to save their IT ...
The agency tasked with protecting America from terrorist attacks is apparently having trouble keeping the bad guys out of its computer systems. What's worse is that the company hired to secure ...
Microsoft is holding the latest edition of its twice-yearly BlueHat Security Briefings this week, and the speaker lineup is a who's who of researchers and technologists. The topics of the scheduled ...
For any of you who are nostalgic for the halcyon days of 2001 and 2002 when network-aware worms such as Code Red, Slammer and Nimda ruled the headlines, the success of the Storm worm in the last ...
This hasn't been the best of weeks for Windows administrators. First came news that Jonathan Sarba of the GoodFellas Security Research Team had discovered a flaw in the MFC42 and MFC71 libraries ...
With all the consolidation we're seeing in the security market, many experts have been predicting the eventual demise of standalone security products. Some of the more noteworthy examples: -- At ...
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IT admins run into trouble with Microsoft Office 2003 SP3
- TechTarget 20 Sep 2007 -
Microsoft launches Office 2003 SP3, investigates Windows flaw
- TechTarget 19 Sep 2007 -
Maynor finally releases Apple Wi-Fi attack paper
- TechTarget 19 Sep 2007 -
Google touts Flayer fuzzing tool
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Sourcefire unveils adaptive IPS
- TechTarget 17 Sep 2007
IT shops may be eager to download Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which includes many of the security enhancements found in the 2007 release, but don't expect a smooth deployment ...
Microsoft says customers can start downloading Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which includes many of the security enhancements found in the 2007 release. Meanwhile, the software giant ...
Security researcher Dave Maynor got mountains of attention last year by going after weaknesses in Apple's Mac OS X and wireless cards in general. A year later, he has finally released a full report ...
Search giant Google continues to make a big splash on the security front, inviting visitors to the Google Online Security Blog to try out Flayer, its new fuzzing tool. Says Will Drewry of the ...
Sourcefire, maker and seller of the wildly popular Snort IDS tool, has just unveiled 3D System version 4.7, which it bills as the industry’s "first-ever" adaptive IPS. While traditional IPS vendors ...