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BellSouth and Protection One Partner on Security Services BellSouth and Protection One have entered an agreement to deliver security services to BellSouth customers in residential communities.
Finjan Discusses Malicious Findings Web security solutions provider Finjan announced some key findings from its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC).
Symantec and Verisign Working Together on Authentication Symantec and Verisign announced that Symantec will be supporting VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service in the near future.
Gang Jailed in Russia for DDoS Blackmail Sophos reports that a gang has been jailed in Russia for blackmailing online gambling companies using distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Sophos Shows HIPS Sophos has made available its Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS), designed to identify and block suspicious programs before they execute.
Another PowerPoint Flaw Discovered Sophos warns of a recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint. The flaw has yet to be patched, and could be used to run malicious code by hackers.
Sophos Takes Control of Applications Sophos announced new Application Control features today that aim to keep company data and networks safe by blocking unauthorized VoIP, P2P and IM applications.
Cisco and Lock Company to Make Networked Doors Cisco has teamed up with physical security company ASSA ABLOY on a physical solution to be closely integrated with IP networks.
Microsoft Hires Another McAfee Veteran Just over a month ago, Microsoft hired former vice president of McAfee's AVERT team Vincent Gullotto.
Developers Agree Application Security Needs Improvement Symantec commissioned a survey among software developers in June regarding the need for application security improvement.
Trend Micro Unveils New Version of Security Suite Trend Micro announced the 2007 version of it's Internet security suite, which is currently available for download in English and Japanese versions.
SonicWALL Goes European SonicWALL is taking it's security solutions to Europe. The company just launched European-language versions of its Continuous Data Protection (CDP) backup and recovery solutions.
StillSecure Gets Ready For Cisco and Microsoft Collaboration Enterprise security company StillSecure has announced that it's Safe Access NAC solution is now functional with the recently announced NAC/NAP solution from Cisco and Microsoft.
Microsoft Issues Patches, One Critical for Publisher Yesterday Microsoft issued a series of security updates for Windows and Office products.
Exploit Prevention Labs Releases August Exploit Survey Results Findings of the August 2006 Exploit Prevalence survey as reported by Exploit Prevention Labs were announced today.
Cisco Microsoft Partnership Delivers Interoperability The Security Standard conference began today in Boston, and Microsoft and Cisco demonstrated the interoperability of Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP).
Pointsec Releases Latest Linux Offering Enterprise security provider Pointsec unveiled a new offering for Linux today - Pointsec for Linux 2.0.
Sophos Announced Top Ten Threats and Hoaxes for August August is over and Sophos has posted its monthly list of top malware threats and hoaxes for the month.
Nokia and Sourcefire Team Up on Intrusion Prevention Nokia is planning to offer Sourcefire's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) with its IP Security Platforms.
CP Secure CSGs Pick up Kaspersky Scan Engine Anti-malware solution provider CP Secure has formed a strategic alliance with Kaspersky Lab, in which the Kaspersky Anti-Virus scan engine will be used in CP Secure Content Security Gateway (CSG) appliances.
McAfee Speeds Up SWG Products with Sensory Networks McAfee has selected Sensory Networks's NodalCore acceleration technology to power its Secure Web Gateway (SWG) products.
McAfee Plays it Cool McAfee's SiteAdvisor has made the annual Time Magazine "50 Coolest Websites" list, and the company is honored.
Microsoft Hires McAfee Vet The former vice president of McAfee's AVERT team has been hired by Microsoft as the general manager of Security Research & Response.
Sophos Warns of Bogus Berlusconi Email Sophos has warned of another widespread bogus email containing a Trojan Horse.
Mac Pros Miss A Couple of Updates About a week and a half ago, Apple released 26 updates for the Mac OS X operating system.
BlackBerry Exploit Coming Soon Security researchers are set to release exploit code on August 14 that will make BlackBerry devices vulnerable to attacks.
More Veteran Data Missing Another computer containing the personal data of United States veterans has gone missing.
Symantec CEO to Present at Air Force Conference Symantec CEO John Thompson will be presenting at the Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC).
Apple Makes Mac OS X Updates Available Apple released a 26 security updates for its Mac OS X operating system, specifically 10.3.9 and 10.4.7 client and server Macs.
Act Against Predators May Block Kids From Social Network Access Last week, the United States House of Representatives approved an act called the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA).
phpBB and Security A WebProWorld member's forum has been hijacked and he has asked for assistance regarding the matter.
McAfee Makes a Change to North American Channels McAfee has named a new senior vice president of its North American Channels, and that is Dave Dickison.
Symantec Unveils New Backup Exec Symantec has introduced Symantec Backup Exec, which features Symantec LiveState Recovery functionality and makes it easier to deploy.
McAfee Sage - A New Security Journal McAfee has released a new semi-annual security journal titled Sage. It contains editorials as well as "in-depth technical pieces by respected industry experts".
Microsoft PowerPoint Zero-Day Attack Hackers are taking advantage of a flaw in Microsoft PowerPoint in a Zero-Day attack that is being linked to a known Trojan Horse.
CSI, FBI Report on Virus Attacks and Financial Losses The Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the FBI have teamed up to release a report on the effects of virus attacks on financial losses.
Security Products and Services Highlight New Report A new security report has been made available by Research and Markets.
VeriSign the Go-to Company for WiMAX Security The WiMAX Forum has selected VeriSign to be THE WiMAX security company to maintain compatibility and interoperability within the WiMAX community.
Sophos Warns of Gmail Phishing Scam Sophos has warned of a new phishing scam, which offers a $500 cash prize claiming to be from Gmail.
Symantec Shows Off its New Family At Symantec Vision Government 2006 today, Symantec announced the availability of its Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 family.
Websense and Google Identify Thousands of Malicious Sites Security vendor Websense says that it has used Google's binary search to identify about 2,000 malicious websites in the past month.
MessageLabs Launches New Version of Web Security Services MessageLabs has launched a new version of its Web Security Services, version 2.0.
McAfee to Present at ABA's Info Security Forum Todd Gebhart, Senior Vice President of McAfee's consumer and mobile business division, and Douglas Sabo, McAfee's director of government relations and corporate citizenship, will be presenting at the American Bankers Association's Information Security Forum.
Wimbledon Bluetooth Precautions With the start of Wimbledon, IBM has reportedly placed Bluetooth applications in London's trees so people can get all the latest updates on their phones.
IBM Announces New Security Tools for Developers IBM has announced a new set of free security tools for developers to battle IT security threats for large and small businesses.
SecureInfo and Nortel Partner on Information Security SecureInfo and Nortel have entered a strategic partnership to expand the information security offerings of each company.
Norton 360 This Fall or Next Year? It looks like it's either going to be this fall or next year until Symantec releases its Norton 360 security service.
Microsoft A Security Predator? Microsoft is being criticized for "predatory pricing" of it its security software OneCare because it is so much cheaper than its competitors.
McAfee Unleashes New Betas for Testing The beta version of McAfee's "Falcon" platform is now available for testing, so the company can get feedback to prepare for the official release later this summer.
New Vulnerability Discovered in Microsoft Excel There is a post on the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog from Mike Reavey discussing a recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Excel.
The Changes of Malware and Spam SophosLabs global director Mark Harris will be discussing the changes in malware and spam at an upcoming seminar in Stockholm, Sweden.
More Exploits Reported for Microsoft Yesterday was Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, and the company released 12 patches for security flaws in Windows, Office, IE and Exchange Server.
McAfee to Raise Vulnerability Awareness McAfee announced that using its Avert Labs' research expertise and Organization for Internet Safety (OIS) guidelines, it will work closely with vendors affected by vulnerability discoveries.
Microsoft to Show Off Vista at BlackHat Microsoft will reportedly be showing off Windows Vista at the BlackHat Security conference in August taking place in Las Vegas.
Microsoft Talks Attack of the Bots Microsoft has reported data that it gathered from the use of its "malicious-software removal tool".
Vulnerability Assessment with McAfee John Viega, chief security architect at McAfee will be presenting at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference 2006.
Sophos Endpoint Security Now Available Sophos has made available its new integrated security solution Sophos Endpoint Security.
Microsoft to Release New Email Security Products As of July 1, there will be a new group of email security products available from Microsoft.
McAfee to Reduce Complexity with Preventsys McAfee announced today that it has acquired risk management and security compliance reporting company Preventsys.
CA Releases New IAM Solutions CA announced new releases of three identity and access management (IAM) solutions: eTrust CA-ACF2 Security, eTrust CA-Top Secret Security, and eTrust Cleanup.
Microsoft Teams Up With Juniper for IPTV Security Juniper and Microsoft have partnered to make security solutions for IP networks, which will result in Juniper solutions for Microsoft TV IPTV Edition.
Incident Response Discussion at Security Summit The Gartner IT Security Summit 2006 is taking place in Washington D.C. today through Wednesday.
Lucent Launches a Brick at VPN Security Lucent Technologies announced its new firewall and VPN security portfolio today at the Gartner Security Summit in Washington D.C.
WinCrash Trojan Horse Blocked When Accessing FTP At WebProWorld, a discussion about Trojan Horse blocking is brewing. One member starts off by telling about Norton blocking one while they updated pages on their FTP.
Accusations Fly Surrounding Wireless Encryption The China Broadband Wireless IP Standards Working Group (BWIPS) has accused the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of unethical actions attempting to tear down China's wireless encryption standard WAPI.
McAfee to Discuss Financial Impact of Malware McAfee security research and communications manager David Marcus will be presenting at the Gartner 12th Annual IT Security Summit.
Comodo Talks Verisign GeoTrust Acquisition Verisign recently announced its acquisition of SSL provider GeoTrust, and Comodo has issued a challenge to VeriSign.
CyberDefender Phishing Alert Security developer CyberDefender has released its latest Phishing Alert.
Anti-spyware Company Gets Former Symantec CFO Anti-spyware Webroot Software has acquired former Symantec Chief Financial Officer Greg Myers. He has been appointed to the company's board of directors.
Top Ten Laptop Security Recommendations Security company Absolute Software has published a "top ten" list of things to do to keep your laptop secure.
McAfee Protection for Motorola Q McAfee announced the availability of mobile security solutions for the new Motorola Q.
Sophos Appoints new Board Chairman Sophos has appointed a new non-executive Chairman to its Board of Directors.
WPW Member Posts Google Response to Adwords Email This is a follow-up to yesterday's story titled "Security Concern About Google Adwords Email" about a thread in WebProWorld.
IBM Focuses on SOA Security IBM has launched three SOA appliances as a result of its acquisition of DataPower in October.
Security Concern About Google Adwords Email A discussion came up in WebProWorld about an email many Adwords customers were receiving.
Users' Advice on Windows XP Security WebProWorld has a pretty good thread going related to the security of Windows XP-based machines.
Good Sources of Security Downloads I wanted to take a few moments to look at some of the security-related downloads featured at iEntry sites SecurityConfig and Networkingfiles.
Software Piracy Accounts for a $34 billion Loss in 2005 $34 billion was the amount of lost money due to software piracy around the world in 2005.
BitDefender Announces Generation Nine BitDefender announced today the release of BitDefender 9 Standard and BitDefender 9 Professional. The crown of ninth generation of security software from BitDefender, BitDefender Internet Security, will follow in two weeks' time.
BitDefender Is Mandriva Certified Mandriva Linux distribution developers issued BitDefender with certificates stating full compatibility between BitDefender for Samba Linux File Servers, BitDefender Mail Protection for Small Business and Mandriva Linux Corporate Server 3.0.
HP Notebooks Get Advanced Fingerprint Sensors Advanced fingerprint sensors from AuthenTec, which feature the company's award-winning TruePrint technology, are being embedded into the newest notebook computer by HP - providing an advanced level of security for the small to medium business (SMB) mobile professional.
Secure Computing Upgrades Sidewinder G2 Secure Computing announced the release of a number of new Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance software capabilities.
Preventsys Partners With Rapid7 Preventsys announced a technology partnership with Rapid7, the provider of NeXpose vulnerability assessment and risk management software.
McAfee IntruShield Leads Market Share for Network-Based Intrusion Prevention McAfee announced that its network IPS solution, McAfee IntruShield, has again been named the worldwide revenue market share leader for network based in-line intrusion prevention for Q1 2005...
McAfee Improves Its Customer Support McAfee is adding new innovation to its best-in-class technical support offerings for users, through the company's relationship with Sento Corporation, a provider of customer support solutions.
Tyco Goes With McAfee For Workstation and Server Protection McAfee announced that Tyco International has selected McAfee Active Virus Defense as its company-wide anti-virus standard for workstations and servers.
Symantec Launches Beta Version of Security Information Manager 9500 Series Symantec announced the availability of the beta version of Symantec Security Information Manager 9500 Series, which offers the industry's first real-time integration of global early warning threat intelligence and powerful correlation in a scalable and easy-to-use appliance.
Network Intelligence's New Functionality Network Intelligence announced new functionality allowing customers to capture and analyze log data from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 7, and Microsoft SQL 2000.
NitroSecurity sFlow from Foundry Networks to IPS Management Console NitroSecurity, a provider of next-generation intrusion prevention solutions for enterprise networks, announced it has added support for sFlow from Foundry Networks to its IPS Management Console.
Identity Verification Report Helps Employers Detect Fraud National employment screening leader OPENonline LLC announced the launch of its new, comprehensive, online national Identity Verification Report that now gives employers a quick, easy and cost effective tool to learn if an applicant is presenting their true identity.
Healthcare Providers Worried About Viruses and Hackers IVANS announced the results of a technology survey conducted among healthcare facilities and providers.
AuthentiDate and SafeNet Launch Timestamp Production Product AuthentiDate International, the European subsidiary of AuthentiDate Holding Corp. announced today that AuthentiDate and SafeNet have launched a new product for mass production of secure digital timestamps within the framework of an exclusive partnership.
McAfee Announces Protection From New Microsoft Vulnerabilities McAfee announced that it provides protection for the vulnerabilities announced by Microsoft Corporation yesterday.
CSIA Releases Results of Internet Safety Survey The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the only public policy and advocacy group dedicated exclusively to cyber security, today released the results of a nationwide survey of voters dedicated to Internet safety issues.
Symantec Announces Vulnerability Data Correlation Service. Symantec announced that Symantec Managed Security Services now includes Symantec Vulnerability Data Correlation Service.
Streaming Updates for McAfee SpamKiller and WebShield Appliances McAfee announced the availability of Streaming Updates for McAfee SpamKiller and McAfee WebShield Appliances.
Stonesoft Enhances StoneGate Platform Stonesoft annoucned that it has made significant enhancements to the StoneGate Platform, which connects firewall, VPN, and IPS under a single, centralized management system.
Intel Improves Security Intel announced new tools for software developers to help build threaded applications and extract the best performance from applications on multi-core platforms.
McAfee Unveils Entercept Support for Linux McAfee unveiled McAfee Entercept support for Linux today. The McAfee Entercept server agent now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, in addition to existing platform support for Windows and Solaris.
Symantec To Host Webcast For Developers Symantec announced that it will host a webcast providing guidance on how developers can build more secure applications.
SonicWALL Awarded For Network Security at Interop Tokyo 2005 SonicWALL's gateway threat management service has been awarded Grand Prize in the Network Security category at Interop Tokyo 2005, the premier telecommunications and network technology event which was held in Tokyo from June 8th to 10th.
NAG and EWA Systems to Create Next Generation Hybrid Data Mining Solutions A partnership to create hybrid data mining solutions applicable to a wide range of industries including finance, e-commerce and semiconductor manufacturing...
SonicWALL VP of Engineering Speaks at WiFi/Voice over WiFi Planet Conference John Gmuender, vice president of engineering at SonicWALL, will address the topic of cost-effective integration of wired and wireless security within the corporate LAN and WAN in a panel session entitled 'Taming the Tiger: Cost-Effective Wireless Management.'
Over-Hyped Security Threats Companies have been hesitant to implement selected new technologies because IT security risks associated with these technologies have been greatly exaggerated.
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