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State of email authentication and the Internet trust ecosystem
Authentication & Online Trust Alliance (AOTA) announced the “2008 State of Email Authentication and the Internet Trust Ecosystem” report. The group found …
Distributed Ethereal sniffer as a managed service
Packet Island, Inc. today announced their latest SaaS-based sniffer product, PacketPro. This product has the ability to provide managed service providers and IT outsourcing …
New Cisco book: “Router Security Strategies: Securing IP Network Traffic Planes”
Router Security Strategies: Securing IP Network Traffic Planes provides a comprehensive approach to understand and implement IP traffic plane separation and protection on IP …
Million dollar email scammers plead guilty
IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding internet users to be on their guard against email scams as three men pleaded guilty to stealing more than USD 1.2 million. The …
Free books from Open Web Application Security Project
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a community focused on improving the security of application software offers a couple of books for download. Besides the …
New high performance security risk management appliance
nCircle released a new high speed appliance designed for very large enterprises. Its new VnE 5100 is the ultimate platform for security risk management in large enterprises …
Yahoo! CAPTCHA broken? Recognition engine available for download
As posted to Hacker Webzine: It has been suggested before that it would be a matter of time, but now it seems official: The Yahoo! CAPTCHA is no-more. A team of Russian …
Mortgage spam jumps in response to Fed rate cut
Spam about mortgage refinancing jumped to 10% of all spam in the past week in conjunction with the recent interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, according to research …
New book: “Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals”
For over 40 years, the IBM mainframe has been the backbone of the world’s largest enterprises. If you’re coming to the IBM System z mainframe platform from UNIX, …
New U.S. patent for network security testing
Critical Watch, a provider of security risk management and compliance solutions, has been awarded United States Patent 7325252 for its original and comprehensive network …
Virtual infrastructure security for Citrix XenServer
Catbird announced the beta release of its V-Security virtual infrastructure security for Citrix XenServer. According to the company, this is the industry’s first …
Where’s My iPhone? A Lesson in Incident Response
Security incidents come in many forms, from attackers breaking into computers, unauthorized attempts to sniff wireless networks and collect information, and stolen laptops or …