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In a victory for privacy advocates, an Orlando, Fla.-based company has been ordered not to sell keylogger spyware. The BigFix offerings are all driven from the Unified Management Platform or BigFix Enterprise Server (BES). Proventia Desktop focuses on two areas, the first being protection from spyware. This product analyses network downloads to stop the spread of new spyware, and also stops existing spyware from running by stopping unauthorised application communication outside the desktop. Symantec completes its acquisition of PC Tools but remains mum on the financial details.
The sentencing of Julie Amero, the Connecticut substitute teacher convicted of exposing seventh-grade students to pornographic images — pictures that she and a number of security experts contend were spyware-produced — was postponed to 6 June. Overnight, McAfee released its new internet-based security service which it claims is an industry first technology that shields PCs on the fly. Steven Thomas, was found dead Sunday in Hawaii, some two weeks after he was reported missing. Seventy per cent of small and medium-sized businesses have experienced a spyware or virus attack in the last three months, new figures suggest. The Sophos Web Appliance WS1000 effectively and seamlessly blocks spyware, phishing, virus, malware and other web-born threats at the gateway. It also allows granular administrative control over permitted actions. The use of Sophos Behavioural Genotype Technology is, according to the vendor, the key to stopping malicious threats, malware and even encrypted malware prior to allowing malicious code to run within your enterprise. Fortinet’s FortiGate is another product that has not changed much since we last saw it. This device focuses on three layers of protection: first is a firewall and VPN; the second layer is IPS/IDS; and the final layer is securing content from viruses and spyware, web filtering and IM and P2P blocking. A strong feature set makes McAfee’s Security Internet Gateway (SIG) a heavy hitter in any organisation’s architecture. The SIG provides anti-virus scanning against all protocols, while anti-spyware scanning blocks potentially harmful spyware, cookies and adware from getting on to the network. Day-to-day worries about spyware and bots are the No. 1 security concern of IT professionals working for the agencies of the federal government, according to a study released today by Cisco Systems. Tennis fans at risk as hackers infect official tennis website with malicious code during this week's Wimbledon tournament. The use of government spyware to monitor criminals' online activity could do "more harm than good" and will not be tolerated by the industry, a security said. Reports suggest that today may be a bad day for Washington scammers. An Israeli firm of private investigators has been rapped for using spyware to steal sensitive information.. A strong feature set makes McAfee’s Security Internet Gateway (SIG) a heavy hitter in any organisation’s architecture. The SIG provides anti-virus scanning against all protocols, while anti-spyware scanning blocks potentially harmful spyware, cookies and adware from getting on to the network. To protect against spam the SIG uses an engine consisting of anti-spam, anti-phishing rule sets, permit-or-deny lists and a spam-learning feature. The SIG enforces policy and compliance issues regarding out-going data transmission as well as some forms of data leakage. This appliance is easily configurable by IT staff and, once configured, requires minimal administrator intervention. Researchers this week released proof-of-concept code for a number of cross-site scripting flaws on Facebook, but the social networking site said it closed the vulnerabilities within hours. The total amount of malware removed from Australian PCs grew by over 55 percent in the first half of 2008, Microsoft has reported. New technology offers greater control over traffic by identifying users and
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