Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: software, security, virus, web

In the security industry it's not hard to run into someone predicting the demise of the anti-virus industry. But the end game will take forever to play out. The common argument: Anti-virus software can never keep up, is outdated and outgunned against rapidly evolving threats. Websense CEO...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=913

Date: 03/02/08     Keywords: microsoft

Consider this, Microsoft spends huge amounts of dollars and manpower creating protections for the Vista operating system, yet we still have old school vulnerabilities. Why? The answer is simple really, third-party created code is not stepping up and taking advantage of these powerful protection mechanisms. I'm not...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=912

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: security

Airport security is obviously a major concern in our country, and I've made some observations that I'd like to share from my recent travels. February and March has turned out to be an insane travelling road show for me. When March completes, I will have spoken...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=911

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: web

The Air Force has had it with soldiers getting their information from the unsavory world of blogs. The service's Network Operations Center has instituted widespread filtering of the Web, blocking all sites with the letters b-l-o-g in their URLs and filtering out most other sites that qualify as blogs, Wired...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3686

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: security

Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men (port security guards) responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered mega-oil-patch off the coast of Brazil. Way back when I was an industry analyst...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=552

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: security

Bain Capital and Huawei will resubmit its bid for 3Com to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. in hopes of closing a deal. A $2.2 billion buyout of 3Com has been hung up over concerns that China's Huawei would have access to critical U.S. security...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=910

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: software, microsoft

US retail sales of non-games software totaled $3.3 bln in 2007, a 15% increase over the $2.9 bln generated in 2006. Thanks in large part to new product introductions from companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, the most significant increases in revenue were seen in operating system, business, finance...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14050

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

I'll call a spade a spade here. Too many hackers, coders, and open source religionists are elitists. They think they know better, and are better, than you and me. But they are not. I've been carrying around this 'tude for a long time,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3329

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: software, security

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...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-189986.html

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

In remarks at an investment conference yesterday, Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook said that because the demand for hacked iPhones exists, there would always be a level of hacking. That type of hacking could be taken to be the type of jailbreaking that when performed...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3327

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: microsoft

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: EU slaps Microsoft with $1.35 billion fine Mary Jo Foley: European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable? Dennis Howlett: Steelie Neelie slaps Microsoft with record fine John Carroll: Microsoft vs. the EC, round 236 ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8100

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: technology, asp

Suppliers offering "virtual appliance servers" have often stopped by to brief me on their products and how they're going to take over the market in some segment or another. The most recent example was a really interesting discussion I had with Dave Asprey, VP of Marketing for Zeus Technology, about...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=352

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: security

When I reported on the Vocera certificate security bypass flaw, SecurityFocus picked up on it and created Bugtraq ID 27935 to warn their customers about the vulnerability.  I dropped a note to Secunia about the flaw but they seem to believe that a flaw is only a flaw if it...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=909

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

There is a right to personal computer privacy in Germany, after all, the country's high court said Wednesday. Data stored or exchanged on PCs are protected by the German constitution, the Federal Constitutional Court, AP reports. ''Collecting such data directly encroaches on a citizen's rights, given that...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3678

Date: 02/27/08     Keywords: no keywords

According to ComputerWorld coverage Finjan is publicizing a source in Hong Kong they have discovered that offers to sell access to hacked ftp servers. The idea is that a malware purveyor or phisher would want ftp access with admin credentials so they can quickly and easily upload there wares to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=550

Date: 02/27/08     Keywords: database, security

Finjan said it has uncovered a database with more than 8,700 FTP account credentials--user name, password and server address--that allow hackers to compromise security and deliver malware as a service. In a report released Wednesday, Finjan said the list of stolen accounts includes many Fortune 500 type...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=908

Date: 02/27/08     Keywords: microsoft

When Neelie Kroes burst on the scene as EU Commissioner for Competition with a hefty swipe at Microsoft back in 2004, my thoughts at the time were something like: 'Out of touch, doesn't get the issues.' Four years on and her agenda is unequivocal. Drag Microsoft into line - whatever...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=324

Date: 02/27/08     Keywords: software, technology, security

It didn't take long for VMware to answer the security bell. The company on Wednesday announced a technology called VMsafe that aims to integrate security software with the hypervisor--the linchpin of virtualization software. With VMsafe VMware will provide APIs to allow security application vendors to develop products...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=905

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: security

McAfee has unearthed a Windows Mobile PocketPC Trojan that disables security, installs via a memory card, can't be uninstalled and makes itself your home page. According McAfee's Avert Labs blog, the Trojan has been discovered in China. Here's how it works according to researcher Jimmy Shah: ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=904

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

As promised, Digg held its first "town hall" meeting yesterday (via UStream), and although it was fun to see founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose answer questions in front of a camera -- laptops in hand, Diggnation style -- we didn't really learn much new. Almost all...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=409