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How the good guys fight the security arms race
News Biggest security holes in corporate IT systems We will come in and monitor email traffic for a few days to monitor what data is actually exiting a corporation, looking for, say, financial data, and the results are almost always horrifying. [15 Feb 2008]
Green sat-nav - how it works
News For example, a straight, wide, downhill road where you can drive continuously at 60mph gets a better fuel-efficiency rating than a windy, uphill road with twists, pot-holes and a speed limit of 30mph. [05 Jan 2007]
Alert over Spybot worm
News An updated variant of a malicious bot program is spreading via a flaw in Symantec's antivirus software as well as through several holes in Microsoft code. The security company said: "We are seeing a spike in traffic on port 2967 with activity only... [30 Nov 2006]
Microsoft issues largest patch batch to date
News Four of the critical updates deal with security holes that could allow remote code execution in all versions of Windows. Bitle said: "These [vulnerabilities] take advantage of two listening services that run on the host and listen for traffic... [14 Jun 2006]
Satellite tech to map cables under UK roads in 3D
News He said in a statement: "We'll always need to dig holes in the street but reducing the amount of roadworks would bring enormous economic and environmental benefits, with fewer traffic jams and exhaust emissions. [22 Mar 2006]
Is VoIP drilling holes in your network?
News Voice over IP, where voice calls are broken up into packets and passed around a corporate network together with the organisation's data traffic, can provide enormous benefits for companies - such as cheaper international calls - but they also... [23 Sep 2005]
Security: Dreaming of a problem-free PC?
News Microsoft has unveiled a new subscription-based computer fix-it service, aimed at automatically patching security holes, blocking viruses and spyware, and generally automating the chores of maintaining a computer's health. [16 May 2005]
Symantec plugs virus scanning flaw
News The announcement of the flaw happened the same day that Microsoft released a dozen patches to fix holes in its Windows operating system and other applications. Symantec said in an advisory: "The impact of this vulnerability is exaggerated by the... [10 Feb 2005]
Spam plateaus - but worse times to come?
News SP2 is so much more difficult to infiltrate because Microsoft has filled in so many of the holes. Mark Sunner, CTO of MessageLabs, said his company's own monitoring of the problem puts that figure at around 80 per cent of all email traffic, but... [02 Feb 2005]
Lycos kills off its anti-spam zombies
News Although the campaign was short lived, legal experts believe that the plan highlighted holes in UK laws. The controversial attempt to attack spammers by bombarding their websites with traffic from thousands of individual PCs is over. [07 Dec 2004]
Symantec fixes firewall security holes
News It also fixed glitches in its Gateway Security 320, 360 and 360R products, which had been susceptible to two of the security holes. Gateways route traffic in and out of networks or between network segments. [27 Sep 2004]
IM the prime suspect in City leaks
News Despite the imminent arrival of tighter legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, many traders and financial workers appear to still be 'making hay while the sun shines' - or rather leaking data while the holes exists to do so. [20 Aug 2004]
Windows hacks available on the net
News Currently, Symantec and the Internet Storm Center, a site that monitors network threats, have both detected automated attacks on computers that have not had the recent security holes patched. While some news reports have theorised that a new worm... [29 Apr 2004]
Signed spam tries to fool filters
News The attack on the software's filtering process highlights the dangers of open-source projects, but it also reinforces the ability of projects with active development teams to quickly respond to such security holes. [13 Oct 2003]
Banking websites are 'turkey shoot for hackers'
News Tighter security across all areas needs to be made a priority today and the holes plugged quickly - or this could become a turkey shoot for hackers. Roy Hills, technical director at NTA Monitor, said in a statement that router flaws can allow a... [20 Aug 2003]
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