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An oldie but a goldie. Microsoft is warning of a new vulnerability in Windows that could permit privilege escalation. Newly organised methods of online criminal activity are threatening to democratise fraud and undermine banks and online traders, according to security experts at this year’s RSA Conference Europe. User names and passwords aren't secure, and momentum continues to build across the industry to solve this problem in a manageable way. Microsoft has vowed to work more closely with other security software writers in the battle against targeted exploits. Quantum cryptography, the most secure method of transmitting data, has taken a step closer to mainstream viability with a technique that simplifies the distribution of keys.. All too often, people are victims of identity theft. Less common, but perhaps more dangerous, is the growing trend of medical identity fraud. Hackers could run malicious code on the RAZR device by sending a corrupt image by MMS, according to an advisory from TippingPoint For all the hype about the relative security of the two most popular browsers, is Firefox really any more secure than Internet Explorer? For that matter, is it even possible, as a British company with a “zero-footprint” browser claims, to develop a truly secure browser? Security experts at the Sans Institute warned last week of a major surge in zero-day flaws as part of its 2006 update to the Top 20 Internet Security Attack Targets list.
IronPort's charismatic CEO puts his success down to having tasted failure in the past. He talks to Paul Fisher SC Magazine's UK editor about living with Cisco. 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. A New Jersey man this week was sentenced to more than two years in prison for planting a “logic bomb” on the network of his former employer in a failed attempt to destroy sensitive health care data. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring Boeing to make sure that computers governing flight control systems on the new 787 are not vulnerable to hacking from passengers using in-flight internet access. Microsoft warned users on Monday of attacks targeting a flaw in Macrovision's digital rights management software. Web 2.0 is cool, it may even be useful, but it is also causing a headache for those paid to worry about IT security Time is critical when it comes to patches, so make sure you don't miss out on any critical releases. The Voltage SecureMail Gateway appliance incorporates several components that manage securing email content. The server itself provides policy-based encryption and centralised management and reporting. Research suggests that spammers didn't find the results they were looking for during recent PDF spam spikes, according to anti-virus vendor Sophos. A recently disclosed Black Hat hacker technique for reverse engineering intrusion prevention system (IPS) data poses a “serious risk” for thousands of enterprises, Gartner has warned.