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The latest mass-mail worm to attack unprotected computers is Mytob, which first appeared at the beginning of the month, but last week, threatened with eight new variants, two of which were reported by security firm Symantec yesterday. As with other mass-mail worms, Mytob uses its own SMTP engine to ...
Facing increasingly faster, more complex and more targeted computer attacks, network companies and groups are banding together to share information in hopes of stemming the damage done by computer attackers. The Fingerprint Sharing Alliance -- announced by Arbor Networks and including worldwide supp...
The recently formed Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) announced this week that it has created a new committee to define security requirements for Internet telephony networks. Analysts said the outcome could be a significant boon for the industry. "This is a significant step toward improving V...
When Gidi Cohen started Skybox Security three years ago, he made a commitment to manage security risk more efficiently than other firms were providing for the enterprise community. "The IT community faces a huge problem in meeting government regulations," Skybox Security CEO Cohen told TechNewsWorld...
IBM today released a free download of a new spam filtering tool, FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), which it admits is not a full-fledged solution but a technology foundation that could one day reach the marketplace. Big Blue released the product under its AlphaWorks program in whi...
Intrusion detection and prevention systems provider Internet Security Systems (ISS) issued a "protection advisory" targeting older versions of McAfee's anti-virus software engine last Thursday. Attackers are able to trigger a stack overflow within the process importing the McAfee AntiVirus Library,...
Las Vegas based FBM Software has announced on March 14 the release of ZeroSpyware 2005, designed to target consumers and small businesses with what company officials say is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use anti-spyware software available. Among the highlights of the software is a service to pr...
When Dell Computer announced last month that it would begin shipping notebook computers incorporating a chip to make the units more secure, it sent analysts scurrying to their calculators. That's because Dell's inclusion of "trusted computing" hardware into its machines would be giving the technolog...
America Online's Instant Messenger (AIM) is getting lots of press lately, but not for the reasons the Internet service provider had hoped when it announced its partnership with popular Web sites late last month. AOL's updated privacy policy is under public scrutiny. The online giant updated its Term...
The way Finjan Software founder and CEO Shlomo Touboul sees it, the end justifies the means. Virus and spyware writers have become so sophisticated in their scams and attack strategies that it is time to up the ante in protection services. Security risks have gotten so prevalent in the last two year...
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the REAL ID Act of 2005. Privacy advocates decry the act as a move towards a national identification card while others back it as a key national security measure. Both sides miss important points, including the fact that Americans already have a ...
Could the American spy community improve its intelligence activities through blogging? A captain in the U.S. Army Reserve thinks so and says as much in the March issue of Wired magazine. Capt. Kris Alexander, a millitary intelligence officer, argues in an essay that blogs should be incorporated into...
For the second time in less than a month, Americans are finding out that their private information may be in the hands of identity thieves. Publisher and information broker Reed Elsevier announced today that criminals using a stolen identity and password gained access to information on as many as 32...
After ringing warnings bells for months about the threat of computer viruses for mobile phones, security experts today are reporting the first multimedia messaging service (MMS) virus, CommWarrior, which has the potential -- so far unrealized -- to spread to cell phones all over the world. Security ...
American companies have always had to worry about their overseas facilities being red, white and blue bull's-eyes for terrorists, but now their offshoring partners may be in the crosshairs of subversives, too. A reported raid last Saturday by police in Delhi, India, in which three men were killed an...
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