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Despite dire predictions by some security researchers that a recently patched critical Windows flaw could lead to widespread destructive attacks, Microsoft experts insisted today that such an outcome appears unlikely. AUGUST If the online marketplace were a family, 1-800-flowers.com could be considered a patriarch. In 1992, the flower distribution business joined AOL as the internet service provider's first merchant. Three years later, the company added a ".com" to its name and became one of the web's earliest and most recognizable success stories. Congress should make data breach legislation a priority. A dedicated federal civil servant took work home. Unfortunately, the federal agency he worked for had not taken easy steps to make that practice safe and secure. Thus, when a neighborhood gang of thieves broke into his house and stole the laptop, identity information about millions of veterans and members of the armed forces was potentially compromised. It was a typical Washington story, typical because no one suggested doing anything to solve the real problem revealed by the incident. It reminded me of the two giant paintings in the piazza in Sienna, Italy. One image is of dysfunctional Bad Government, the other of progressive Good Government. Richard Clarke, founder and ceo of Good Harbor Consulting, for continuing to unabashedly criticize anyone who is failing to comprehend the security requirements that go along with using the internet as a business-enabling tool. Even after his service to three presidents, Clarke serves up his cybersecurity knowledge whether your like it or not. Besides frequenting the conference circuit, he recently published a fictional account of terrorism in the U.S., The Scorpion’s Gate, slated to become a motion picture in 2007. This is a very different type of analysis tool from those infosec professionals are used to. Link analysis, a crucial aspect of incident response, is usually done manually or by trying to use log correlators. This is a true link analyser with a long pedigree in analysing complex crimes and security incidents. Properly planned and executed staff education makes employees more responsible and reaps tangible business benefits. Paul Hansford reports Just days after settling one suit with Microsoft and another by the Texas attorney general still pending against him, former spam king Ryan Pitylak is now offering his services to the anti-spam community. Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Miami man on charges he ran a scheme that hacked into the calling networks of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to route customer calls. Tarron Weir and Joseph Raquel might well be "poster boys" for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN) movement. In fact, their experience with the latest in secure remote-access technology more or less epitomizes what’s going on in the VPN marketplace right now. Monitoring an illicit Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel recently, Nicholas Albright couldn’t believe what he was seeing. First, he observed a network operator sending commands to install keyloggers on thousands of compromised, remote-controlled computers. Then, all this private data started flying over the channel — HIPAA-protected medical information, financial account numbers, usernames and passwords. A number of recent critical flaws discovered in Mozilla Firefox has raised doubt on whether the open-source web browser still can be considered a much safer alternative to Internet Explorer. More than a third of U.K. companies has fired an employee for violating email policies, according to new research. Fewer than one in five Americans feel that existing laws are enough to protect them on the internet, a new survey revealed. It’s time to get real when measuring risk against acceptable loss. Business needs a more intelligent approach, says Gary Flood BT is to acquire the California-based IT consulting firm, International Network Services (INS), as the company continues to bolster its profile in the US. Microsoft on Tuesday promised to increase efforts to combat spam by pushing adoption of its Sender ID framework for email authentication. There’s yet another IT security bandwagon onto which any number of vendors are jumping. And, whether companies refer to it as network access management (NAM), network access control (NAC), or network access protection (NAP), the main question is: Who has the real deal? If I say the word security to you, what comes to mind? Do you think of the access card keys that allow you into your buildings; firewalls to protect your IT infrastructure; or cameras to monitor facilities? Perhaps you think of how to protect the data on your laptop if it is stolen.