Security
Port
A Security Port Blog
More
Funding for Security Company |
04/29/2006 | |
NeoAccel Inc., an Internet security
company, said Friday it received $4 million in funding,
led by new investor Baring Private Equity Partners'
India Fund.
|
Westchester County Mandates Wireless
Security |
04/29/2006 | |
New York's Westchester County has
enacted a law designed to limit identity theft by
forcing local businesses to install basic security
measures for any wireless network that stores customers'
credit card numbers or other financial
information.
The law also requires
that businesses offering Internet access -- coffeehouses
and hotels, for example -- post signs warning that users
should have firewalls or other security
measures.
|
PeoplePC Security Pack |
04/28/2006 | |
PeoplePC, a leading provider of
high-quality, value-priced Internet service and
subsidiary of EarthLink , today launched the PeoplePC
Internet Security Pack an affordable, integrated suite
of protection and security features that protects
members' entire computers -- not just their email --
against viruses, spyware, and
phishing.
|
RSA
Security Buys PassMark Security |
04/28/2006 | |
RSA Security Inc., a provider of Internet
security software, on Monday said it acquired privately
held PassMark Security Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal
worth $48.2 million.
RSA also slightly lowered
its second-quarter earnings guidance, but the estimate
still brackets Wall Street expectations.
Menlo
Park, Calif.-based PassMark Security develops Internet
anti-fraud and authentication systems, and was
co-founded by Bill Harris, the former chief executive of
Intuit and PayPal. |
Anchiva Systems Security
Launch |
04/28/2006 | |
Content security protection provider Anchiva
Systems announced on Monday that it had launched the
Anchiva Enterprise Content Security Appliance, a line of
Internet gateway devices designed to remove spyware,
spam and viruses.
|
Microsoft to Re-Issue Buggy Security
Patch |
04/27/2006 | |
Microsoft plans to reissue a security
patch for its Windows operating system that caused
serious headaches for some users do to conflicts and
compatibility issues with nVidias Video Drivers and HP's
Photo Sharing Software.
The fix is currently
being tested.
|
Kaspersky Antivirus Software for
Smart Phones |
04/27/2006 | |
Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version
of mobile antivirus software for smart phones using the
Symbian OS, it announced this week.
The product,
called Kaspersky Anti-Virus Mobile 2.0, can stop
suspicious programs before they infect the phone and
scan devices for malicious software, the company
said.
Kaspersky Mobile
Anti-Virus
|
Telecommuting Security Concerns
Grow |
04/26/2006 | |
Telecommuting is becoming a way of life
as more companies let employees work from home to do
jobs that might otherwise be done on corporate premises.
As a result, IT managers are adapting security policies
to encompass home PCs.
Last year
an estimated 8.9 million people worked from home three
or more days each month during regular business hours,
according to IDC. A quarter of them worked exclusively
from home. At places where home-based work has become
the norm, IT managers say a key concern is ensuring each
telecommuter's PC, typically granted remote access to a
corporate LAN, keeps pace with office security
guidelines.
Telecommuting Security Concerns at
Issue
|
Money Spent on Security
Increasing |
04/25/2006 | |
Growing incidents of data breaches have
led to companies spending more on protecting their
data.
Nearly 40 percent of new
security spending by businesses in 2007 will be directed
towards protecting data, research firm Gartner said
Tuesday, indicating a shift from securing the network to
shielding information.
Increasing
incidents of data loss, the rising costs associated with
each incident, and the public disclosure that companies
have to make after a data breach have led to the change,
said Gartner.
Money Spent on Security
Increasing
|
Yahoo Assisting Chinese
Censorship |
04/24/2006 | |
Yahoo Inc may have helped Chinese
police to identify an Internet writer who was
subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the
third such case, an advocacy group for journalists said
on Wednesday.
News implicating
Yahoo in the imprisonment of Jiang Lijun in 2003
surfaced on the eve of a summit between Chinese
President Hu Jintao and U.S. President George W. Bush in
Washington.
Yahoo is Supporting Chinese
Censorship
|
Russians Unite Cyber Security |
04/24/2006 | |
The Russian interior minister has
called for the world to take a united stand against
online criminals.
Rashid
Nurgaliyev told a Moscow press conference for the
International Anti-Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Forum
that the danger from online attacks is now as great as
the threat from major weaponry.
Russians Unite on Cyber
Security
|
Man
charged with hacking into USC network |
04/24/2006 | |
Hacker Claims He Earns Money for
Penetration Testing -
25-year-old man has
been charged with hacking into the University of
Southern California's computer system and accessing
information about student
applicants.
A criminal complaint
unsealed Wednesday charges Eric McCarty of San Diego
with transmitting a code or command to intentionally
damage the school's Internet student application system,
federal authorities said.
Penetration
Testing
|
Banking Sites Security
Questioned |
04/23/2006 | |
Online bank customers may want to pay a
little more attention to their browsers the next time
they log in, because many of the most popular banking
sites in the U.S. may be needlessly placing their
customers at risk to online thieves, a noted security
researcher warned Thursday.
At issue are the
user log-in areas on sites like Chase.com and
Americanexpress.com that ask customers to submit their
ID and password information. Although these forms may be
encrypted, they do not use authentication technology to
prove they are genuine, according to Johannes Ullrich,
chief research officer at the SANS Institute.
Bank Security
Article
|
Hackers Collecting Taxes |
04/18/2006 | |
A sharply higher number of fake e-mails
purportedly coming from the Internal Revenue Service is
bombarding inboxes this tax season, part of an
escalating wave of cyber-crime that threatens the
security of Internet transactions.
The bogus IRS
e-mails represent a version of the Internet scam known
as "phishing," in which online criminals try to fool
computer users into divulging personal information such
as credit card numbers. |
Terrorist Groups Concerned About
Internet Security |
04/17/2006 | |
Terrorist groups, which for years have
used the Internet and its various tools to organize and
communicate, are paying more attention to addressing
security and privacy concerns similar to those of other
Web users, counterterrorism experts say. Recently,
postings on jihadist Web sites have expressed increasing
concern about spyware, password protection, and
surveillance on chat rooms and instant-messaging
systems.
Complete
Article
|
Social Security Numbers Mistakenly
sent to Classmates |
04/16/2006 | |
University of South Carolina officials are
advising students to watch their credit reports after
the Social Security numbers of as many as 1,400 students
were mistakenly e-mailed to classmates.
A
department chairwoman distributing information about
summer classes accidentally attached a database file to
an e-mail she sent Sunday. The database included
students' Social Security
numbers.
|
IBM
New Chip Security |
04/14/2006 | |
In an effort to boost the level of data
security on portable computers, cell phones and other
gadgets, IBM Corp. is unveiling a method for injecting
encryption capabilities into the heart of the
machines’ circuitry.
There are
multiple ways to achieve encryption, the mathematical
art of encoding data to protect it from spying eyes.
Specialized software can do the trick, as can hard-wired
chips inside computers.
Complete
Article
|
Security Websites |
04/11/2006 | |
Check out these Security
websites:
Alarm Tools - Alarm solutions directory
including security alarms, burglar alarms, companies,
emergency response solutions and fire alarms.
Security Software - Security software
and security resources. A resource that will assist you
in protecting your privacy without going to the
extremes. Each of the pages include security articles
that will answer many of the security related questions
that we are asked.
Monitoring Tools - Stay apprised of
critical security alerts with monitoring tools.
Directory of monitoring solutions from environmental
monitoring to server
monitoring.
|
Chip
Level Security |
04/11/2006 | |
IBM is touting a new technology that it
claims will greatly increase chip makers' ability to
build embedded security features into processors used in
mobile handsets, PDAs and other devices.
Tabbed with the code-name "Secure
Blue," IBM said that the technology, which it labels as
a security architecture, can be built into a
microprocessor chip to provide defense features
previously unseen in such embedded components and more
common in mainframe computers.
Complete
Article
|
Hydro Quebec Alters Plans |
04/11/2006 | |
Hydro-Quebec has increased security
measures after documents containing passwords and other
highly classified information were stolen last month,
spokesperson Marc-Brian Chamberland told The Gazette
last night.
"We can't guarantee
these documents haven't been in circulation,"
Chamberland said. "Between the moment they were stolen
and the moment they were found, we don't know what
happened."
The documents were found
in an abandoned file folder on the platform of the
Papineau metro station by an employee of Radio-Canada,
the CBC's French-language
service.
The documents had been in
a briefcase belonging to a Hydro-Quebec security
adviser, who placed it at his feet while he he had lunch
with his colleagues on March 10. At the end of his meal,
he realized the briefcase had disappeared, Chamberland
said.
The documents were found a
few days later, he added.
Complete
Article
|
Security Certificates on Trial |
04/11/2006 | |
Canada's contentious security
certificates go on trial in the Supreme Court this
spring in a trio of challenges to one of the most
stringent laws ever passed by the federal
government.
Three men who are
suspected of having terrorist ties will ask the court to
strike down the certificates, which have been described
as Canada's version of Guantanamo Bay and
McCarthyism.
Complete
Article
|
Symantec Releases Instant Messaging
Security Tool |
04/10/2006 | |
Symantec Corp. is attacking one of the
greatest hidden threats to corporate security -- instant
messaging programs -- with the release of Symantec IM
Manager 8.0, which includes management and protection
tools for public and private IM programs.
The
product is Symantec's first IM security product, and is
a descendant of products developed by the company IM
Logic, which Symantec purchased in January.
|
CIO
Web Applications Security Warnings |
04/10/2006 | |
In their rush to implement Web
services, some companies may be exposing themselves to
new security risks they may not fully understand, a
security researcher said at the CanSecWest/core06
conference in Vancouver on
Thursday.
During a conference
presentation, researcher Alex Stamos outlined how a
number of Web services technologies, including the Ajax
and the XQuery query language, could be exploited by
hackers to dig up secret information and attack
systems.
Web services is a
catch-all expression used to describe a form of
distributed computing that uses standards based on XML
to simplify the job of programming software. One of its
key tenets is that Web services applications are
extremely portable and can easily interact with
different types of software.
Web Applications Security
Warnings
|
Russian guided by security interests
in LEU deliveries to India |
04/10/2006 | |
Russia delivers low-enriched uranium to
India while being guided by security interests, the head
of Russia's nuclear power agency said
Saturday.
"These deliveries are
made in line with the main principles of the nuclear
suppliers' group," Sergei Kiriyenko said after attending
the Kudankulam nuclear power
plant.
Russian Prime Minister
Mikhail Fradkov earlier made an official visit to New
Delhi, during which he said Russia would supply the
fuel, adding that supplies were in the two countries'
interests and did not contradict international
commitments.
Uranium
Supply
|
Securifrance to buy Initial
Security |
04/09/2006 | |
French securities services firm
Securifrance has signed a declaration of intent to
purchase Initial Security of Belgium, a unit of Rentokil
Initial, the newspaper De Tijd reported in Saturday's
editions.
The Belgian Dutch
language paper said that Initial Security, which has
about 1,400 workers, signed the declaration of intent to
sell and a "definitive sale" is expected towards the end
of April.
Initial Security provides
guarding services, deals in security systems, provides
responses to alarms and performs specialised industrial
cleaning.
|
Congress Ready to Tighten Security,
Add Detectors at U.S. Ports |
04/07/2006 | |
Congress is likely to approve measures
this year to tighten security at U.S. ports, including
requiring the installation of radiation and nuclear
detectors, lawmakers said.
Legislation being considered in
both the Senate and House would also ease customs
inspections for importers such as Bentonville,
Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest
retailer. In exchange, the companies would be required
to tighten the security of their shipments.
Complete
Article
|
Cell
Phone Security Breach |
04/05/2006 | |
Cellular phone viruses are still
mercifully rare, but more than 60 percent of global
companies mention security concerns as a reason for not
giving employees advanced handsets, a survey found on
Tuesday.
|
Security Clamp Down |
04/04/2006 | |
Companies are clamping down on employees'
workplace use of the expanding range of free Internet
services, such as instant messaging and video
downloading, to protect themselves from viruses,
communications traffic jams and regulatory
missteps.
General Electric Co. has barred outside
instant-messaging and file-sharing programs, as well as
access to personal online e-mail accounts such as those
offered by Yahoo Inc. Telecom company Global Crossing
Ltd. also blocks outside instant messaging and online
e-mail accounts. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is one of
many banks that blocks Internet services it can't track
or monitor, including outside instant-messaging, phone
and e-mail programs.
Complete
Article
|
Government Demands Records |
04/04/2006 | |
The government insists it needs vast
amounts of data from Internet search companies to prove
that the 1998 Child Online Protection Act is necessary
and constitutional, and its highly publicized subpoenas
of America Online, Google, MSN, and Yahoo are only part
of that effort. It turns out that the federal
government's data gathering activity is broader and more
extensive than previously reported: The U.S. Department
of Justice has demanded information from at least 34
Internet service providers, Internet search companies,
and security software firms.
Government Demands
Records
|
Security Battles for Microsoft |
04/04/2006
|
|
When Microsoft Corp. researchers learned
recently that a software flaw had been made public and
could prompt Internet attacks, the company ordered a
team to devote all its time to fixing the flaw and making
the repair work with other products.
Microsoft argues that's the approach customers want
and expect, but some security experts complained that
the software company's traditional method, which could
take days or weeks, wouldn't help people fast enough.
More
|
Blog Archive
April Archive
March Archive
February Archive
January Archive
| |
 |

Security Alerts
Locate security alerts, and security feeds via a security rss feed
directory.
|