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Enterprise network security
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FBI launches Operation Bot Roast II
- TechTarget 29 Nov 2007 -
Where to find the best IT security news roundups
- TechTarget 29 Nov 2007 -
‘Massive’ malware barrage poisoning search sites
- TechTarget 28 Nov 2007
The FBI has just announced the results of its latest crackdown on botnet herders, designated Operation Bot Roast II. Since the first crackdown in June, eight people have been indicted, pleaded ...
A couple weeks ago at the monthly meeting of the National Information Security Group (NAISG) in Waltham, Mass., I gave a couple of PowerPoint presentations when the scheduled speaker hit some ...
Those using Google, Yahoo! and other search engines face a new danger according to the folks at Sunbelt Software: seeded search results that will redirect the user to sites rigged with malware. The ...
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How to handle a data breach with some dignity
- R.I.S.C. Associates 27 Nov 2007 -
SANS Top 20 released, but is it still useful?
- TechTarget 27 Nov 2007 -
RFID security could get better
- TechTarget 26 Nov 2007 -
Potential crypto problem in CPUs has potential solution
- R.I.S.C. Associates 21 Nov 2007 -
Missing in the UK: Discs with 25 million records
- TechTarget 20 Nov 2007 -
Monster.com hacked again
- TechTarget 20 Nov 2007 -
Diving back into the Mac Vs. Windows debate
- TechTarget 16 Nov 2007
Say this for the unfortunate folks at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs: they know how to respond to a data breach. I'm not necessarily talking about the legal response or notification of citizens ...
The SANS Institute released its 2007 Top 20 threats list today (They still call it the Top 20, even though there are only 18 items on this year's list), and the main takeaway is pretty much the ...
Information Security magazine's Senior Technology Editor Neil Roiter wrote a story about University of Massachusetts at Amherst researchers who developed a way to generate a unique set of random ...
Some security experts are counseling a bit of caution about the recent reports of a potential math error in a commercial microprocessor that could lead to mass compromises. The possible ...
This news should be unsettling to every family in the UK with kids under 16: The BBC is reporting that two computer discs housing their names, addresses, birth dates, National Insurance numbers ...
These continue to be risky times for those using Monster.com to search for jobs. You might remember that hackers targeted Monster.com with a massive phishing attack last August, stealing at least ...
After writing about the massive security update Apple released for Mac OS X this week, I've decided to dive back into the never-ending blog debate over whether the Mac is really more secure than ...
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Swedish cops catch and release embassy hacker Egerstad
- R.I.S.C. Associates 15 Nov 2007 -
Security holes plague IBM DB2, HP OpenView
- TechTarget 15 Nov 2007 -
Another sign Visa was on to TJX’s security troubles
- TechTarget 12 Nov 2007 -
Security consultant hijacked 250,000 machines
- TechTarget 12 Nov 2007 -
KnujOn takes the spam fight to the enemy
- R.I.S.C. Associates 09 Nov 2007
There's a really interesting story making the round today about the arrest of Dan Egerstad, a Swedish security consultant who claims to have compromised a private data network used by embassies ...
Secunia has released advisories for security holes in IBM DB2 and HP OpenView. In both cases, the vendors have issues patches. Secunia advisory SA27667 describes three vulnerabilities in IBM DB2, ...
In his StoreFrontBacktalk blog, Evan Schuman offers another historical nugget about how Visa knew as far back as 2005 that TJX's security posture was not even close to upright. According to more ...
A security consultant based in L.A. has pleaded guilty to leading a double life as a bot herder, infecting 250,000 computers and stealing thousands of identities in the process. John Schiefer ...
By Neil Roiter Garth Bruen is on a mission--to bring spammers down. His KnujOn project, (“no junk” backwards, pronounced “noo-jon”) hit a milestone this week, claiming 50,000 spam sites put out of ...