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Internet Security Systems Case Study: Computer Sciences Corporation
White Papers CSC client Hyatt Hotels Corporation needed intrusion prevention security to comply with tighter PCI Standard requirements and safeguard its customers' credit card information. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is a leading global IT services...
[July 14, 2009, 14:43]
Advocating electronic responsibility
News It never ceases to amaze me how few IT professionals - even those charged with Internet and information security - possess an adequate understanding of how computer systems actually function. In addition, legitimate security researchers face the...
[August 8, 2005, 12:10]
Bush unveils final cybersecurity plan
News The Bush administration signed off on Friday on the final version of the United States' strategy for protecting the Internet and securing information systems. Even if the government can secure its own systems and work with industry to improve the...
[February 17, 2003, 8:19]
Protocol holds out faster Web services promise
News A proposed method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates. Computer scientists have for many years been proposing protocols to improve the...
[January 31, 2003, 16:18]
Naive Bayes Classifier Learning With Feature Selection for Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking
White Papers These systems provide powerful infrastructure solutions for semantic annotation and information sharing, promoting diverse kinds of internet-based activities, e.g.web exploration, creating and joining web-based communities, and buying recently...
[November 28, 2008, 23:00]
Don't broadcast info about Windows servers to hackers
News You can see where this kind of information could be used to compromise your systems. And the first lesson in almost all of those guides is to identify the Windows service packs that are installed on the systems you want to attack.
[January 21, 2003, 8:14]
Execs form security taskforce
News In February, the Bush administration signed off on the final version of the United States' strategy for protecting the Internet and securing information systems. Ten top security executives plan to announce a new group on Wednesday that is aimed at...
[November 12, 2003, 10:10]
New Linux worm 'Adore' arrives
News Known as the Adore worm, the program is designed to create so-called back doors in the security of Linux systems and send information identifying the compromised systems to four different email addresses hosted on servers in China and the United...
[April 5, 2001, 9:06]
Code Red II: A double whammy
News A new worm, similar to Code Red but perhaps more virulent, was spreading across the Internet on Monday, infecting systems and potentially leaving them vulnerable to further attacks. The new bug also uses the attacked computer's Internet Protocol...
[August 7, 2001, 9:25]
Sendmail flaw tests new security body
News The DHS's Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) worked with security company Internet Security Systems, which discovered the flaw, and Sendmail to create a patch while keeping news of the issue from leaking to...
[March 4, 2003, 7:36]
Security overview? Read Internet Lockdown
News For IT managers needing a good general background on securing systems, Internet Lockdown may be the book. Through 10 chapters, Internet Lockdown (which covers security for systems, networks, and applications as well as the Internet) walks the...
[June 26, 2002, 11:16]
Homeland Security bill becomes US law
News The Department of Homeland Security law also creates a Directorate for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection that is charged with analysing vulnerabilities in systems including the Internet, telephone networks and other critical...
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
MP slams Cabinet Office's email destruction
News The chairman of the All Party Internet Group has slammed the Cabinet Office for deleting millions of emails from its systems days before they would have been available to the public. But the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS...
[December 21, 2004, 15:55]
Witty 'probably an ISS inside job'
News Witty hit the Internet on March 19, 2004, taking advantage of a flaw in products from Internet Security Systems (ISS), including RealSecure and BlackIce. From their analysis, the researchers also deduced that Witty failed to scan about 10 percent...
[May 26, 2005, 16:15]
London 2012 to be boon for UK IT
News The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) has a projected budget of £204m for information systems, £63m for telecommunications and £12.5m for Internet applications to help make the games a success.
[January 17, 2006, 15:05]
Router bug could let hackers control Internet traffic
News Cisco Systems and CERT, the security advisory organisation, have warned of a bug in Cisco routers and switches that could give a hacker the ability to disrupt Internet traffic or intercept sensitive information.
[June 29, 2001, 15:26]
Hackers use Google to access photocopiers
Talkback Hackers using Google can locate systems that are online and have not been correctly configured or slack processes have revealed sufficient information for their system to be exposed to the Internet in the public domain.
[October 4, 2004, 6:44]
Open source InfoCard rival gets heavyweight support
News The project aims to help people manage their plethora of Internet logins and passwords by integrating identity, profile and relationship information used across authentication systems on the Net. The Higgins Project will complement InfoCard in...
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
Court upholds ex-Intel worker's deluge of critical emails
News Setting a new precedent in Internet law, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an ex-Intel worker did not trespass on company computer systems when he emailed thousands of messages critical of his former employer to staffers at work.
[July 1, 2003, 9:22]
Advertising software knows who you are
News Condé Nast owner Advance Publications, for one, recently began testing a product from Tacoda Systems that promises to compile detailed information about the Web site visitors of its Advance Internet news network.
[May 7, 2003, 11:30]
