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‘Security by obscurity’ seems to be a popular Australian fallacy. Growing IT security threats, coupled with regulatory mandates to protect information and ensure privacy, are generating a renewed focus on security awareness training programs, which can heighten security awareness, improve application and infrastructure security, and enhance security incident handling and response. Even though Apple's iTunes tracks are now free of digital rights management (DRM) software, privacy advocates are voicing concern over personal information attached to the music files. Compliance should be triggered by good security rather than an auditors' visit, says Jen Mack. Grisoft, the maker of AVG security software, today introduced a free product designed to detect and remove rootkits.
Online pests reaching new levels of sophistication and professionalism. There have been few mobile phone viruses so far, but as more handsets use WiFi and bluetooth, is it just a matter of time? Mark Mayne reports. Nearly two-thirds of computer users are against illegally infecting or hacking into a computer, even if it is suspected of belonging to a paedophile, a new poll shows. In the wake of recent news at HP, pretexting has become the hot topic in the business world, and its sudden rise to fame broaches numerous questions including: What exactly is pretexting? How are companies liable for it? What are companies doing that is considered pretexting and how can they protect themselves from becoming the next HP? RSA Conference delegates leave themselves wide open to attack. Computer hackers are planning to target social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, in a multi-billion-pound "cyber war" next year, security experts warn. SEPTEMBER First Response is a freeware audit tool and is a little difficult to use in the beginning. The interface, deploying agents and gathering data can also be a little awkward at first, but this program can be very useful once the user has a grasp on what it does and what it is capable of. ProDiscover IR is a complete IT forensic tool that can access computers over the network (with agents installed) to enable media analysis, image acquisition and network behaviour analysis. This new version of EnCase shows its pedigree as the oldest of the GUI-based IT forensic tools. We found it very simple to operate and use. Configuresoft’s Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) is a management application for configuration, patching, security, audit and compliance – and all from a single, very scalable console view. The former head of the UK’s Computer Crime Unit tells Ron Condon why it’s time someone helped smaller companies protect themselves MIMEsweeper is designed to check email flowing in and out of an organization against a list of different parameters, such as virus, spam and any defined corporate policies. It has been around for many years now, and version 5.2 continues the pedigree. SC Magazine is providing an exclusive look at abridged versions of various chapters included in the just-released Larstan’s "The Black Book on Government Security," as part of an agreement with Larstan Publishing. This month’s excerpt will be available in an extended form on http://www.scmagazine.com. A new trojan circulating the internet could render security tokens used for home banking useless, experts warned.