Archive for the 'Security' Category
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Canonical has warned users of all machines running recent versions of Ubuntu to patch their systems and shut an open door for hackers. Canonical is the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating system’s kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to…
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Linux Company, Ubuntu, Renai LeMay ZDNet Australia, Canonical, vulverability, patch, hackers, E-mail, Open source, Operating Systems, Security, Online Communications, UNIX, Linux, Software |
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England…
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Spokesperson, Data Loss, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Government Department, UK, Home Office, memory stick, Data, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Security, Worker, Flash Memory, Components, Government |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The security team for Google’s nascent open-source mobile platform, Android, has attempted to raise its profile with the security community The security team behind Google’s mobile platform, Android, has tried to raise its profile among security researchers by appealing for their vigilance in monitoring the platform. …
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Security Team, Google, Mobile Platform, Android, SDK, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Vulnerability, Google Inc., Open source, Security, Team, Mobile |
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The law-enforcement bodies have cracked a major botnet, asking antivirus company Kaspersky to help victims clean up the malware on their PCs. In a joint operation, the FBI and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit have cracked the Shadow botnet–thought to contain 100,000 PCs. Two…
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Jo Best ZDNet.co.uk, Kaspersky Lab, botnet, Kasperky Lab, Adware & Malware, Spyware, FBI, malware, Security, PC, Viruses And Worms, Federal Government, Cyberthreats, Government |
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
A researcher claims to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java and Nokia Series 40 handsets, and wants Sun or Nokia to pay him almost $30,000 for the details. A Polish security researcher has claimed to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java, but is demanding ?20,000 ($29,790) in…
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Nokia, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Java, Research Paper, Sun Microsystems, flaws, antivirus, malware, Security, Nokia Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Researcher, code, Mobile |
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
VMware virtual machines on all hosts with the company’s latest hypervisor, ESX 3.5 Update 2, in enterprise configurations have found that it will not power on after being turned off. Update at 8:35 a.m. PT on Wednesday: Since ZDNet UK published this article, a patch for the flaw has…
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Desktop Virtualization, Patches, ESX, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Virtual Machine, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Security, Hardware |
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Junk emailers are using Google Sites to create web pages that can help spam get around corporate filters, according to MessageLabs Spammers have added Google Sites to the arsenal of online tools used to get around junk-email filters, according to a study published on Tuesday by messaging…
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MessageLabs Ltd., Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, worms, securuty, Google Sites, Google, malware, Spammer, Security, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Google Inc. |
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The email uses the phrase ‘FBI vs. Facebook’ in its subject line and contains a link to view an article about the FBI and Facebook. On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new email campaign being used by the creators…
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bots, malware, FBI, Robert Vamosi, Storm worm, Spam, E-mail, Facebook, Security, Online Communications, Federal Government, Government |
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The Linux creator has some harsh words for creators of the OpenBSD operating system, as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centered behavior in the IT security industry Linux creator Linus Thorvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a “bunch of masturbating monkeys”,…
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OpenBSD, ZDNet Australia, Liam Tung, Bug, Linux Creator, Linux kernel, Torvalds, Linus Torvalds, UNIX, Industry, Open source, Operating Systems, Information Technology, Security, Linux, Attack, Software |
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Secure Computing’s Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. ?In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid…
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Architecture, Organization, Model, Advantage, Cloud Computing, Appliance, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing, service delivery, IT appliances, Delivery Platform, IT management, SaaS, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Management, Tools & Techniques, Information Technology, CIO, Software As A Service (SaaS), Platform, Software-as-a-service, Service, Security, Software |
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker’s marketing and sales practices, according to a report. European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker’s marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street…
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Corporate Law, Processors, Antitrust, Intel, AMD, Security, European Commission, Business Operations, Intel Corp., Hardware, Semiconductors, Reuters |
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data, according to a survey. FRANKFURT–One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey. U.S….
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Password, Admin Password, IT Professional, passwords, IT management, Security, Marketing, Marketing Research, Survey, Information Technology, Reuters |
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Cybercriminals are using bots to launch attacks that are more distributed, more profitable and potentially more damaging than ever before says 8e6 Technologies CEO George Shih. And here’s what to do about them. Commentary–There?s some good news these days on the IT security front: Cybercriminals…
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George Shih, 8e6 Technologies, bots, Bot, ZDNet, Security |
Monday, May 5th, 2008
There seems to be a serious disconnect and knowledge gap between IT security and DBAs who are entrusted with the task of safeguarding databases, says Sentrigo CTO Slavik Markovich. Commentary–You would think that enterprises realize by now that databases, which hold the ?crown jewels? of sensitive information, need protecting….
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Slavik Markovich, database, Database Administrator, IT management, CTO of Sentrigo, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Storage, Security, Software |
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
A security threat report from Sophos says that attacks are on the rise with an average of 15,000 Web pages compromised daily over the past three months. Web threats have risen significantly in the first quarter of 2008, with one Web page being infected every five seconds, according to…
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malware, Vivian Yeo, antivirus, Sophos Plc., ZDNet Asia, Hacking, Attacks, Marketing, Channel Management, Web Page, Security, Web |
Friday, April 11th, 2008
By way of the User Account Control feature, company set out to force independent software vendors to make their code more secure, says manager. SAN FRANCISCO–A Microsoft manager has said that one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to “annoy users” to put pressure on…
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Software Company, Secure, ISV, Prompt, Microsoft, Vista, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software |
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The recent Cyber Storm II exercise tested how effectively IT security organizations from the US, New Zealand, Australia and Canada communicated with each other in response to simulated threats. Details have emerged about “Cyber Storm II”, a large-scale exercise carried out to test how governments and critical-infrastructure organizations respond…
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CERT, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Game, New Zealand, Exercise, Team Management, Team, Telecommunications, Security, Hacker, Cyberattack, Management |
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Security vendor F-Secure says malformed archive files can cause its own and other vendors’ products to break and crash. Security vendor F-Secure has warned of multiple critical vulnerabilities in its own and other vendors’ products. The vulnerabilities exist in the way the products respond to malformed…
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antivirus, F-Secure, CERT, malware, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Viruses And Worms, Vulnerability, F-Secure Corp., Security |
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Software problems with a 28-mile pilot project send Homeland Security officials back to the drawing board–and cause a three-year delay in plans to seal off the southwestern border of the U.S. WASHINGTON–Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border and…
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Security, Homeland Security, Government, Software, Reuters |
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Software problems with a 28-mile pilot project send Homeland Security officials back to the drawing board–and cause a three-year delay in plans to seal off the southwestern border of the U.S. WASHINGTON–Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border and…
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Security, Homeland Security, Government, Software, Reuters |
