Cisco Systems Inc. last week alerted users to multiple vulnerabilities in the Secure Shell (SSH) server implementation that ships with version 12.4 of its Internetwork Operating System (IOS).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/28/2008
Sometime this summer, Microsoft plans to roll out Service Pack 1 for Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 according to a recent team blog announcement.
When it comes to ensuring compliance with information security rules or best practices, a substantial minority of federal agencies still aren't making the cut.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/27/2008
Microsoft released an international beta of its Office Live Workspace (OLW) suite of productivity tools. The company also quietly launched an Office Live Update last week.
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2008
The Bush administration's economic-stimulus tax rebate program, under which the Internal Revenue Service is issuing taxpayers payments of as much as $1,200, has given rise to a new wave of phishing scams, according to a new FBI notice.
- By Wilson P. Dizard III
- 05/15/2008
A former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle that can happen on computers with AMD processors
Microsoft Office 2007 users will be able to get a new service pack delivered automatically via Microsoft Update as early as mid-next month.
IT pros are having a hard time balancing security, software patch management and IT auditing with a host of other duties, says a Shavlik Technologies survey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/12/2008
Microsoft appealed penalty for noncompliance with an earlier European Commission antitrust ruling against the company.
A bug that caused problems when backing up files in Windows Home Server has been fixed, according to an announcement issued by Microsoft on Wednesday.
Three patches will target critical remote code execution exploits in Microsoft Office, Publisher and the Jet Database Engine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/08/2008
Just because you've deployed an enterprise-grade instant messaging (IM) solution from a well-known vendor, doesn't mean you've mitigated -- let alone completely licked -- the threat posed by rogue, unsanctioned or illicit IM use in your enterprise environment.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/07/2008
Thirty years after the first unsolicited e-mail advertisement was sent, the phenomenon now known as spam is continuing to grow -- and becoming more sophisticated, creative and malicious.
- By William Jackson
- 05/07/2008
Last month researchers at online security company Finjan uncovered a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers.
- By William Jackson
- 05/06/2008
Microsoft said that users of Windows XP can now gain access to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center.
You may not have heard of them, but VPN concentrators can help you properly secure your virtual private network.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese and Tim Duggan
- 05/01/2008
It's a brave new world in anti-malware protection. Joern analyzes the latest security trends.
- By Joern Wettern
- 05/01/2008
One of Microsoft's retail point-of-sale applications has an incompatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Whoever becomes our next president will inherit a cyber infrastructure under almost constant attack and at greater risk than eight years ago, and a handful of experts and legislators have come together to ensure that cybersecurity has a high priority in his or her administration.
- By William Jackson
- 04/29/2008