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Another way to spot a hacker
It continues to be hard to spot security vultures, but McAfee's "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited' outlines data from 9.9 million websites to spot the biggest security threats. The report said that Read more...
Watch out for Valentine's Day spam
The potential for email spam on Valentine's Day is so great that even the FBI is getting involved. "With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: PayPal buys security vendor
Sure, the usual way to shore up security is to hire a security vendor or consultant to come in and take care of business. If you're eBay subsidiary PayPal, however, you could just buy your own Read more...
Multiple threats in virtual networks
Vendors and CIOs are extremely excited about the potential that virtualization technology holds to restructure enterprise networks without requiring complete physical overhauls, by allowing multiple Read more...
CIOs seek out NAC on the net
One of the more interesting high-wire acts in the enterprise IT space is how CIOs manage the tension between opening their networks to mobile workers, customers, partners and suppliers, and securing Read more...
Enterasys execs get jail time for accounting fraud
White collar crime can mean serious time. Four former executives with computer networking and security vendor Enterasys Networks have been sentenced
to prison terms for their roles in an Read more...
Mass targets: evil email with a twist
Meanwhile, CNET is reporting that personalized email attacks are on the rise. The most recent trend involves an illicit campaign that focused on some 500
executives in what is believed Read more...
Thwarting attacks with host-based anti-malware tools
Host-based technologies can target a range of threats from spam to rootkits while providing network repair. Host-based anti-malware products have two components: a security agent that resides on Read more...