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Report: U.S. most prolific source of online attacks | ||
20th, March, 2007
U.S. networks pumped out the highest percentage of attacks during the second half of last year, with China running a distant second, according to a report released Monday by security firm Symantec. The U.S. accounted for 31 percent of malicious activity originating from computer networks, while 10 percent came from China and 7 percent from Germany, Symantec said in its Internet Security Threat Report. |
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Podcast: Common Mistakes Made By IT Administrators | ||
19th, March, 2007
The speaker is George Gerchow, the Technology Strategist for Configuresoft and a active member of the Center for Policy & Compliance, a research and advisory group designed to address the issues of managing security within strict metrics. |
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Protection From The Inside Out | ||
19th, March, 2007
To stop data leakage, try a two-punch strategy that combines outbound content-monitoring tools with digital rights-management appliances. |
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A new day for business security | ||
20th, March, 2007
It might not seem as if a building security guard and a network administrator have much in common. But they do--and the distinction between the two is blurring more every day. |
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How to Make a Honeypot Network Security System Pay Off | ||
22nd, March, 2007
Honeypots have largely been relegated to use by academia and antivirus vendors because most enterprise IT teams figure they're too expensive to run and could land their companies in legal trouble. But honeypots aren't as scary as all that, according to an expert on the topic who spoke at the InfoSec World Conference & Expo in Orlando Tuesday. |
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Novell Delivers Next-Generation Security Information solution | ||
23rd, March, 2007
Novell introduced the latest version of Sentinel, its award-winning security information and event management solution. Representing a significant update from previous versions, Sentinel from Novell version 6.0 offers new capabilities for automating real-time monitoring of the enterprise security environment, identifying and remediating security incidents and documenting regulatory compliance. |
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VoIP Still Faces Security Hangups | ||
24th, March, 2007
After legal and regulatory victories, Internet voice remains a consumer play, as businesses remain skeptical. |
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Tools Fight Forensics | ||
20th, March, 2007
A breadth of anti-forensics tools -- most of them free -- is making it easier for the bad guys to cover their tracks in malware and data theft attacks. |
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NSA Operating Systems Guides | ||
20th, March, 2007
NSA has developed and distributed configuration guidance for operating systems. These guides are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline their systems. |
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Red Hat Release Coincides with Host of Related Application, Kernel Fixes | ||
19th, March, 2007
It turns out that, after years of engineering work and collaboration efforts with strategic partners such as IBM, Red Hat's March 14 release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 had the misfortune of coinciding with the company's release of a whopping 11 security advisories. |
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Top 10 Security Threats in 2007 | ||
17th, March, 2007
The Top 10 threats security professionals should keep their eye on this year |
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Biometrics: what and how | ||
19th, March, 2007
Humans use body characteristics to recognize each other. Some characteristics don't change over time and some do. What characteristics do we use for identifying people? Are they accurate? Can we depend on them in our daily life? |
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