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Microsoft taught security by open-source community
News Microsoft's global director of product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has learned security lessons from the wider software community. The security chief drew parallels between a recent code-audit...
[May 7, 2003, 12:10]
Findings From the 'Information Security, Privacy and Risk' Research Community: Windows Vista's BitLocker Planning Starts Now
White Papers While most enterprise deployments of Windows Vista won't start until 2008, enterprises must make some immediate changes in their hardware procurement specifications to be ready for the full-drive encryption called "BitLocker.
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
LifeCare Management Services, LLC Chooses Websense Enterprise and Websense Security Filtering to Protect Its User Community
White Papers Headquartered in Plano, Texas, LifeCare Management Services, LLC is the home office to LifeCare Hospitals located throughout the country. LifeCare installed Websense Enterprise to protect 3,300 of its employees.
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
'Securipedia' wiki launched
News A wiki aimed at the UK IT security community has been launched by industry association Intellect. The initiative is similar to US security-community wikis such as ITtoolbox. For the security and resilience community, there's a sea of information...
[September 30, 2008, 15:43]
Microsoft sticks to its patching guns
News The fix was briefly posted on a security community Web site, Debby Fry Wilson, a director in Microsoft's Security Response Center, said on Wednesday. We have the security update on a fast track.and] somebody accidentally posted a pre-release...
[January 5, 2006, 8:45]
Dept of Homeland Security caused 'mini-DDoS'
News A contractor for the US Department of Homeland Security has initiated "a mini denial of service" against thousands of security professionals, according to Marcus H Sachs, the director of the SANS Internet Storm Center, a community that monitors...
[October 5, 2007, 16:24]
OpenOffice security is questioned
News A report into the security of OpenOffice has caused a stir in the open source community by highlighting six security "issues" around the open source office suite. The report goes on to counter claims from the open source community that OpenOffice...
[August 14, 2006, 13:35]
IBM wins more support for Blade.org
News IBM announced on Wednesday that 20 new members have joined Blade.org, adding that two founding members of the recently-formed community are launching new security products based on its BladeCenter blade servers.
[April 20, 2006, 14:25]
Port 12345: Hacker haven or Internet X-File?
News Increased activity on TCP port 12345 -- best known as both the NetBus Trojan's default port and the port used for a Trend Micro antivirus product -- has the security community arguing as to who is responsible.
[January 22, 2002, 9:59]
Black Hat Cisco router flaw finally revealed
News Cisco has patched a flaw in the software used to run its routers and switches, a new twist in the company's dispute with a security researcher that has roiled the security community. In the wake of Black Hat and Cisco's actions against Lynn, the...
[November 3, 2005, 8:35]
Apple pledges to supply fix for older OS X
News While some in the security community fretted that Apple would only make the patches available as part of the $129 (£76) Panther upgrade, Apple said it will also offer the security patches for older versions of Mac OS X.
[November 3, 2003, 9:35]
Canonical dismisses Ubuntu security concerns
News Concerns over the security of the Ubuntu Linux distribution arose this week, when five out of eight local community servers sponsored by Canonical had to shut down. The problem arose because the responsibility for security lay "between Canonical...
[August 16, 2007, 17:53]
SSH glitch gives 'skeleton key' to networks
News What started as quiet mumblings and rumours turned into screaming warnings this week as the security community slowly learned of the threat. It's not uncommon for vulnerabilities in Unix-style systems to be exploited for months by the underground...
[September 18, 2003, 11:10]
Attacks puzzle open-source community
News A recent spate of attacks on Macromedia Flash developer community Web sites has exposed a potential security threat in a common open-source mailing list application. Evidence that would link the attacks or the groups behind them is yet to emerge...
[February 13, 2004, 9:50]
Linux security under spotlight
News The open source community has worked diligently to fight the good fight against security vulnerabilities. Members of the open source community have always known that Linux is not immune from security threats, so there is no argument there.
[December 3, 2002, 11:21]
Researcher attempts to unravel Kaminsky DNS flaw
News However, the details have not been made public, leading to speculation about its makeup in the security community. He had asked the security community not to speculate on the issue. By asking the community not to publicly speculate, we make sure...
[July 22, 2008, 17:43]
Grey Hats, Black Hats, and Script Kiddies
News According to Mark Loveless, Senior Security Analyst for Bindview, the bulk of the hacking community is comprised of "grey hats" who, for the most part, respect the law. There are also otherwise average members of the hacking community who...
[April 5, 2000, 13:59]
Microsoft in the hot seat in new Net flap
News Microsoft again finds itself at odds with the open-source community in a dispute over contending claims regarding an Internet security protocol. Earlier this spring the company took heat for attaching proprietary extensions to the Kerberos security...
[May 12, 2000, 9:02]
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
News The community claims to have addressed security issues in the upgrade, a number of vulnerabilities recently having been discovered in the suite. The OpenOffice.org community released version 2.2 on Friday, including updates to OpenOffice's word...
[April 3, 2007, 17:31]
NSA attempting to design crack-proof computer
News That type of security is called -- in typical intelligence community jargon -- an "air gap. Users in the national security community have an increasing need for commercial off-the-shelf software," he said in a statement.
[February 2, 2001, 8:38]
