An open-source security audit program funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has flagged a critical vulnerability in the X Window System which is used in Unix and Linux systems. Coverity, the San Franciso-based company managing the project under a $1.25 million grant, described the flaw as the “biggest security vulnerability” found in the [...]
Homeland Security Audit Flags Critical Linux Bug
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Eager IT Leaders Could Swallow Security Industry
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
With industry experts predicting a wave of consolidation across the security applications sector, the continued efforts of the IT industry’s largest players to bake more defense features into their products could accelerate the rapid shifts in the market.
Since the beginning of 2006, most of the computing world’s largest names have issued new promises of added [...]
Hackers control bot client over P2P
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Security watchers are warning of a new worm that’s propagating over instant messenger networks run by both AOL and MSN. Nugache-A is also spreading (albeit modestly) as an infected email that uses a variety of well-known Windows exploits to infect vulnerable Windows PCs.
New ransomware Trojan bungles computer kidnapping
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
You’ve probably heard of spyware, adware, and malware, but how about ransomware?
Experts have started using the term to describe malware that attempts to hold your computer or data hostage, and demands a payment for its release. Last week, Sophos announced one such ransomware Trojan called Troj/Ransom-A. If you accidentally run Ransom-A, it locks you out [...]
Home Users Need Basic Security Knowledge
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
There is an old saying in sales that has many versions, but the core message is the same: when a person buys a drill, they aren’t buying the drill- they’re buying a hole. Nobody wants a drill per se. They want what the drill can do for them. This is true of most tools and [...]
A Brief Overview of VoIP Security
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Voice of Internet Protocol is the next generation telecommunications method. It allows to phone calls to be route over a data network thus saving money and offering increased features and productivity. All these benefits come at a price, vulnerability. It is easier to attack and exploit a voice and data network. VoIP will need extra [...]
IE7 Search Box Fuels Google Microsoft Rivalry
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Google Inc. is upset that Microsoft Corp. has made MSN the default search engine in Internet Explorer 7, but the software maker says changing to another search provider is easy enough for most people.
The latest fight between the two rivals involve a small rectangular box located on the upper right hand corner of IE 7, [...]
Users and IT Lax about Password Security
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
After years of warning users about making sure their passwords aren’t easy to guess or left on Post-It notes stuck to their monitors, it seems the message still hasn’t gotten through.
A new survey by Sophos, Inc., an anti-virus and anti-spam company with U.S. headquarters in Lynnfield, Mass., shows that users — and many IT professionals [...]
RFID security worries need a reality check
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Sometimes our anxieties about security make us lose sight of how a technology is used. Such is the case with radio frequency identification, a proven technology that delivers big efficiencies and has yet to experience a confirmed hacker attack in the wild.
But RFID has seen many tightly controlled "proof-of-concept" exploits, widely publicized by academic researchers [...]
Top 10 Myths about VoIP
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Until recently, converting from a traditional telephone system to a network-based system required a huge upfront investment to switch out all of a company’s hardware, an expense that only most large corporations could afford. Now there are new technological advancements that enable small and medium sized businesses to implement VoIP and IP PBX systems compatible [...]