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An American who helped a New Zealand hacker has been sentenced to 90 days in prison and five years of probation. Businesses not only need to be focused on their intranets but they also need to be vigilant to their outsourced data flow. It’s a litigious world. Today there are organisations that believe that one gets ahead by litigation, not innovation. More important and, perhaps, more common, are regulatory requirements that mandate a detailed response to investigative inquiries. The insidious Kraken botnet has been infiltrated and a way found to shut it down remotely. Hackers used sophisticated methods to evade detection and place malware on nearly 300 Hannaford Bros. store servers to intercept payment information during the credit card transaction process, the grocery chain told Massachusetts authorities. Researchers have detected active exploits using rogue banner advertisements to target a recently patched vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat. The 'Italian Job' attack was the first large scale use of a Web-based attack, and it was duplicated only a few days later.
A new type of threat has emerged that poses a significant risk to businesses - this threat is real. There are examples of it in the news. There are security experts who are warning against the risk. So why are most companies ignoring it? Watchfire AppScan is a software-based offering, which runs from the Windows platform. You may remember earlier versions of AppScan that required a Linux-based server and were configured and run through a web browser. Less than two weeks after Gartner disparaged TippingPoint's connection to a flaw-finding contest at a recent IT security conference, Frost & Sullivan commended the organisation for research leadership and market growth. The financial industry has been hit hard by the increasing sophistication of web-based threats, including online phishing and identity theft attacks. According to Gartner, these attacks caused losses upwards of US$2.8 billion in 2006 and the numbers don't seem to be abating in 2007. AEP Networks’ SmartGate was the most unique solution we tested. This product is a secure authentication proxy that runs at the application level of the OSI model. The product is similar to a typical SSL VPN, but with added authentication components that make the user’s authentication tunnel more secure. Thousands of employees at Worcestershire County Council are demanding answers after being told they are in danger of becoming victims of identity fraud following the theft of a laptop containing their bank and national insurance details. WinMagic Data Security’s SecureDoc Hard Disk Encryption provides advanced encryption standard (AES) encryption of the entire hard drive. SecureDoc Hard Disk Encryption also supports two-factor authentication through the use of smart cards and USB tokens. Life would be easier if we didn’t have to patch our operating systems and apps. Patrick Gray explores the real reasons why updating is important. Who better to protect your company's assets than a former FBI agent? Microsoft's chief security adviser tells Paul Fisher about life as a civilian. Rolls-Royce’s Nick Bleech tells Ron Condon why, as business embraces collaborative and mobile working, new rules need to be applied More than 3.2 million emails containing a password stealing virus deluged U.K. businesses over the weekend. This month's “patch Tuesday” bulletin from Microsoft will feature a security update for the recently exploited Windows Meta File vulnerability. As we noted in the intro, the difference between spyware and viruses is negligible, so Panda includes anti-spyware functions with its antivirus product. You cannot buy the spyware product separately, so choosing Panda means that you have got to ditch your existing antivirus software.