Internet Network Security Blog

Palm Offers Fix For Treo 680 Bug

January 19, 2007 at 1:53 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

The bug caused the smartphone's camera to draw power even when in standby mode

Legal Brief: Communication Is Key to Security Compliance

January 19, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Technology is important, but communication is the key to protecting data, creating policies, and meeting business and legal needs.

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Strategic Security: Privacy Compliance Suites

January 19, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Inadvertently exposing customers' personally identifiable information is a sure way to land your company in hot water. On tap to help: enterprise-ready privacy compliance systems, or PCSs, the next evolutionary step in protecting personally identifiable customer and employee information.

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Are Digital Gangsters on the Rise?

January 19, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Goodfellas these ain't. Organized criminals are realizing that the Internet has been largely untapped in terms of generating real profit--until now.

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BuzzBite: Spam Goes to War

January 19, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

British intelligence is utilizing spam in the form of demoralizing text messages sent to Taliban fighter's cell phone numbers.

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Federated Identity Management

January 19, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Federation is making it easier to maintain authority across multiple domains. But essential security standards are maturing at an uneven rate. We weigh the risks and rewards of federated ID management.

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Microsoft Fixes Flawed Excel Patches

January 18, 2007 at 2:13 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

The download covers problems found in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions.

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Rollout: Applied Identity’s Identiforce

January 18, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Identiforce does an excellent job ensuring that properly authenticated and authorized users can access the correct resources.

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Rollout: McAfee’s Foundstone FS1000 5.0

January 18, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Foundstone does a better job than most in identifying known host- and network-based vulnerabilities. It also provides good tools to help with the entire vulnerability management process.