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The Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum, which looked at the advantages and security risks of Web 2.0 technology use in the enterprise, debuted today in New York. The questions of "who" and "why" in identity theft remain largely ignored. That is, "Who is after online identities? And what for?" Social networking giant Facebook has defended its security and privacy controls in the face of criticism from industry experts, at this year's Infosecurity Europe show in London. The growth in telework is not as robust as most people think, as managing remote workers and security are big problems. But "secure telework" is possible. Microsoft has warned users to be vigilant after the discovery of a series of attacks on Office.. The Qualys CEO firmly believes the internet has taken over from software -which is why Bill Gates is in trouble. Philippe Courtot, without any obvious irony, describes himself as a "child of the internet". Unusual for a chief executive but, as this interview progresses, it becomes clear that the 61-year-old sees himself as a most unusual CEO. He is referring to his time spent at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, where he witnessed the birth of the web under the aegis of Tim Berners-Lee.
The Web is now a participatory medium. The downside to this ubiquitous connectivity and user participation is a new slew of security threats many IT professionals have yet to fully grasp. A court in Virginia has struck down a spammer's appeal that his conviction violated his rights to free speech.. The ZENworks Handheld Management offering focuses on three key issues crucial for any organisation’s bottom line: compliance, risk and cost reduction. Bluefire Mobile Security Enterprise Edition can be centrally deployed and configured from an administration console. Administrative features include the ability to enforce and update security policy, view logs, extract security logs and control devices regardless of location. A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined 1,100 euro (A$1,829) for launching a wave of DoS attacks against key websites in Estonia, including the site for the political party of Estonia's prime minister, in April and May of last year. IT security has the potential to impact a business at every level. Few other business areas, if any, have the potential to damage customer relations, disrupt supplier dealings, lower employee productivity, lose revenue and even lead to the arrest of the CEO. Remote workers are becoming less vigilant in their online behaviour, according to Cisco's annual study on security awareness and online behaviour. Adobe on Wednesday released two patches to protect against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Too often, network security relies on placing firewalls in front of public network access points and calling it a day. The assumptions are 1) being on a private network is synonymous with being on campus 2) campus users are implicitly trustworthy and 3) external threats are mitigated by the perimeter firewall. Enterprise security firm Mobile Armor has released a list of 10 New Year resolutions for the enterprise data security professional.. Analyst firm Gartner has placed McAfee in the leader’s quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. Information security management will be the most important initiative affecting IT strategy, investment and implementation in business organisations over the next 12 to 18 months.

OpenOffice.org released a new version of its productivity suite this week, fixing a flaw that could allow arbitrary code execution attacks. Pacific Internet (Australia) has launched PacNet CleanWeb, managed web filtering solution, tailored for businesses and government sectors.