Security Bytes
February 2008
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Sourcefire hits a rough patch
- TechTarget 29 Feb 2008 -
Report: 8,700-plus FTP account credentials in hackers’ hands
- TechTarget 27 Feb 2008 -
New worm working its way through Google’s Orkut
- R.I.S.C. Associates 26 Feb 2008
Last year, it seemed as though Sourcefire could do no wrong. The company behind the popular Snort IDS tool had received a mostly positive response from industry experts for its move to go public, ...
Finjan released an interesting report today about a database it uncovered with more than 8,700 harvested FTP account credentials -- including username, password and server address -- that are ...
Social networking sites, which are as popular as Nickelback and even more annoying, have become favorite playgrounds for malware authors and attackers. We've seen attacks using both Facebook and ...
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Panda Security launches $10k challenge
- TechTarget 26 Feb 2008 -
Tell me your virtualization security story
- TechTarget 22 Feb 2008 -
VMware responds to security concerns with VMsafe
- TechTarget 22 Feb 2008 -
Duo shows off GSM-hacking technique at Black Hat DC
- R.I.S.C. Associates 20 Feb 2008 -
Emotions raw over FISA bill
- TechTarget 15 Feb 2008 -
Surveillance law likely to expire
- R.I.S.C. Associates 14 Feb 2008 -
Conference aims to bring together Bay Area security community
- Editor 13 Feb 2008
PR campaigns that involve cold hard cash always interest me. Panda Software is issuing a challenge to companies to test its network scanning software. Executives there are so confident that they ...
Earlier today my colleague Rob Westervelt wrote about VMware's plans to unveil what it calls VMsafe -- a partnership program with Symantec, McAfee, the Internet Security Systems division of IBM, ...
A lot of security pros have pondered the security complexities introduced into an environment that uses virtualization software. Researchers have pounced. They’ve been looking under the hatch and ...
One of the more interesting presentations during the first day of the Black Hat DC conference on Wednesday was a demonstration of a cheap, quick method for capturing and decrypting calls made on ...
The fur has been flying this week over whether Congress should extend the life of a controversial surveillance law or let it expire tonight. The firestorm surrounding the Foreign Intelligence ...
It now appears as though the Congress will allow the current extension to the controversial surveillance law to expire on Friday night rather than try to work out a compromise between separate ...
If you're a security professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area or happen to be in the area next month, you might want to check out the Cornerstones of Trust conference. The annual ...
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Adobe .pdf attacks multiply
- TechTarget 11 Feb 2008 -
The Vista SP1 tirade continues
- TechTarget 11 Feb 2008 -
National threat assessment says U.S. networks are under attack. Really.
- R.I.S.C. Associates 08 Feb 2008 -
Agiliance buy of Phulaxis adds monitoring, auditing features for SOX compliance
- TechTarget 08 Feb 2008 -
The good and bad with Windows Vista SP1
- TechTarget 08 Feb 2008
With enterprises regularly trading .pdf files back and forth, IT administrators should be aware of some new attacks related to recently-patched flaws in the widely used Adobe Reader. Raul Siles at ...
The ugly reaction to Microsoft's handling of Vista SP1 continues, with reams upon reams of Windows administrators taking the software giant to task in the TechNet plus blog for keeping the final ...
The United States' public and private networks are under constant attack by both foreign governments and other groups, and that trend is likely to continue. That's the net takeaway of the ...
The simple fact that there is an IT governance, risk and compliance market, spawning start-up companies like Agiliance, underscores both the growing maturity of IT and IT security and the business ...
In early December I wrote about where to go to in search of Windows Vista SP1 beta testers. At the time there was a lot of hope in the air that this service pack would fix the problems that have ...