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The web application vulnerability landscape
The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) announced the WASC Web Application Security Statistics Project 2007 which is a collaborative industry wide effort to pool …
Microsoft releases 4 critical security bulletins
Another Patch Tuesday and Microsoft comes out with a variety of patches, and this series is quite serious. Users are recommended to update as soon as possible. The critical …
Clean IT for Windows Server 2008
Configuresoft announced the availability of the compliance toolkit for hardening Microsoft Windows 2008 servers based on Microsoft recommended best practices. As organizations …
Portable hard disk suited for high security
MXI Security announced that the new 2.5-inch Outbacker MXPTM has received FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validation, Certificate number 1022. More versatile and secure than standard USB …
New MacScan with Firefox 3 support
New version of MacScan anti-spwyare tool enhances protection against the latest threats to OS X, including support for the Firefox 3 web browser with targeted built-in cookie …
New book: “The Productive Programmer”
The Productive Programmer (O’Reilly) by master developer Neal Ford offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what …
New Kerio WinRoute Firewall with a link load balancer
New Kerio WinRoute Firewall 6.5 includes a new link load balancer that distributes network traffic between multiple Internet connections, providing high availability and …
Barack Obama sex video tries to steal your bank details
Sophos identified a a widespread spam campaign that claims to contain a link to a sex video of Barack Obama. Users that click on the link will not see the video they expected, …
Call centers lack adequate disaster recovery plans
Empirix announced the results of the new DMG Consulting research study titled, “Business as Usual? A Benchmarking Study of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for …
Enterprise data monitoring and data security policy language patent
United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Tizor Systems a new U.S. Patent (U.S. Patent Number 7,415,719) on August 19, 2008. The patent is for the first comprehensive …
Plug-in for enchanced Apache SpamAssassin spam and malware detection
Commtouch today announced the availability of its new plug-in for Apache SpamAssassin, which offers enhanced spam and malware detection based on Commtouch Recurrent Pattern …
One of the first US pump-and-dump scheme prosecutions
A resident of Malaysia was sentenced today to two years in prison on a conspiracy charge that arose from an international fraud scheme to “hack” into online …
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