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Trend Micro, Zone Labs, ClamAV join list of insecure security products
Date: 08/22/07
Keywords: security
Add Trend Micro, Check Point Zone Labs and ClamAV to the long list of security products that put end users at risk of malicious hacker attacks.The three vendors have all acknowledged various security vulnerabilities in a range of desktop and server products that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=466
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Poll: Facebook banned by half of employers
Date: 08/22/07
Keywords: security
Workers at many companies surveyed by security firm Sophos say access to Facebook is blocked over productivity, security concerns.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6203889.html
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Sipera introduces new enterprise VoIP security toolset
Date: 08/22/07
Keywords: no keywords
Most major VoIP-centered conferences see a fair amount of announcements for new products and services. An exhibit floor walk also helps clarify and reinforce what's interesting.The VoiceCon show I am now attending here in San Francisco is heavily oriented toward enterprise (as opposed to consumer) VoIP. Natural, then, that what I'm...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2236
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Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?
Date: 08/21/07
Keywords: no keywords
I was just going through the slides from Joanna Rutkowska's Black Hat talk (127-page .ppt file) and discovered that there's another unpatched driver flaw that exposes Windows Vista to kernel tampering.This flaw, in NVIDIA nTune, is similar to the recent ATI Technologies driver issue that provides a foolproof way to...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=447
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SFO's security strategy
Date: 08/21/07
Keywords: security
San Francisco International Airport CIO, John Payne explains his security role at SFO airport and how the airport responds to hacker attacks and terrorist threats. by Andrew Mager
Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=190
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Security expert: Skype's explanation for outage is "line of bull"- do you agree?
Date: 08/21/07
Keywords: security
Some security experts are not entirely buying into Skype's explanations of what caused the nearly two-day sign-in outage.Writing on the SANS Internet Storm Center site, John Bambanek initially commented in part:Skype is apparently fully functional and has released an explanation of the problem that attributes the failure to Patch Tuesday. ...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2229
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Gentoo pulls vulnerable server offline
Date: 08/17/07
Keywords: security, linux, hosting
The Gentoo Project has removed a server hosting several sites and services after the discovery of a potentially serious command injection vulnerability.The open-source group, which produces a popular Linux distribution, said the security hole was verified within http://packages.gentoo.org."The Infrastructure team verified the vulnerability and the server was immediately taken...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=456
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Canonical dismisses Ubuntu security concerns
Date: 08/16/07
Keywords: security
Worries over Ubuntu's security following the shutdown of Canonical-sponsored community-run servers are misplaced, says the company.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6202988.html
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Beware of strange Yahoo Messenger webcam invites
Date: 08/16/07
Keywords: web, yahoo
Exploit code for a potentially serious vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger has been posted on the Internet, putting millions of computer users at risk of code execution attacks.The flaw, confirmed in fully-patched versions of Yahoo Messenger, causes a heap overflow to be triggered when the target accepts a webcam invitation.The exploit,...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=454
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Adobe: No threat from PDF spam
Date: 08/16/07
Keywords: security, spam
No hard evidence that PDF spam exposes users to security risks, claims the company, which nonetheless recommends user caution.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6202909.html
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Why Apple doesn't get more of my cash
Date: 08/16/07
Keywords: linux
One question that I get asked on almost a daily basis is why I don't abandon the Windows platform and shift over to using Mac. When I posted my "30 things I've learned from using Linux …" post, the point that raised the most discussion was #27:The more I use...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=689
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Ubuntu servers hacked to attack others
Date: 08/15/07
Keywords: security
More than half of Ubuntu's production servers had to be pulled offline after a security breach caused those servers to actively attack other machines.According to a notice in the Ubuntu weekly newsletter, 5 of the 8 servers that are loco hosted had to be shut down after an investigation showed...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=453
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Symantec, Intel building VM security into microchips
Date: 08/15/07
Keywords: technology, security
Symantec and Intel are jointly developing security appliances that work with virtualization technology built directly into Intel's microchips, according to a Reuters news report.The partnership, called "Project Hood," is part of an effort by the two companies to expand their use of virtualization technology. Instead of designing the...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=450
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Symantec, Intel work on security on microchips
Date: 08/15/07
Keywords: technology
The program is part of an effort by both companies to expand their use of virtualization technology.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6202645.html
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Where is security going?
Date: 08/13/07
Keywords: security
Or more specifically, where is the security industry going? When faced with this question Rotham's and Newby's security blogs read like the ramblings of ecclesiastical old men who are tired of their own industries. They are too close to it to scent the excitement maybe?First of all there...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=466
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Will German law make security worse or better?
Date: 08/13/07
Keywords: security
A new German law that makes it a crime to build, sell, distribute or obtain so-called "hacking tools" went into effect over the weekend, InfoWorld reports.The new law defines hacking as penetrating a computer security system and gaining access to secure data, without necessarily stealing data. Offenders are defined as...
Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3356
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Can you really trust your security vendor?
Date: 08/13/07
Keywords: software, security
A screenshot taken this morning from the Secunia home page:When the security software installed on your system exposes you to code execution attacks, can you really trust them? by Ryan Naraine
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=446
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Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effect
Date: 08/13/07
Keywords: php, software, security
Security professionals in Germany have started removing exploits and hacking tools from the Internet in response to a new German law that expressly forbids the distribution of any software that can be used in computer/network attacks.Stefan Esser (left), the PHP security guru behind the recent Month of PHP Bugs project,...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=444
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EMC to buy Tablus
Date: 08/09/07
Keywords: security
EMC's security division RSA announces plans to buy Tablus, in a move to bolster its intelligent information management offerings.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6201723.html
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Cisco.com goes dark on patch day
Date: 08/09/07
Keywords: software
On the same day Cisco released patches for multiple operating system and software vulnerabilities, the network routing and switching vendor suffered an outage that knocked the Cisco.com offline for about three hours.The outage, blamed on "human error [that] caused an electrical overload on the systems," affected support services, including access...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=436