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How the good guys fight the security arms race
News Biggest security holes in corporate IT systems H is for Hackers H is for Hackers 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... [15 Feb 2008]
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. Additionally, hackers often steal the victim's data and install spyware and adware on PCs, to... [30 Nov 2006]
Is VoIP drilling holes in your network?
News Earlier this year, Nick Jones, a research vice-president for Gartner, warned that VoIP services required some ports on the corporate firewall to be left open, which could give hackers an opportunity to penetrate a network. [23 Sep 2005]
Security Appliances Keep Mail Stream Clean
White Paper Firewalls worked fine for years, but now hackers have learned to exploit holes that exist in the firewall to let in valid traffic. In the network world, this means having a sturdy firewall to prevent denial-of-service attacks, network intrusions... [23 Aug 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. However, Purdham conceded that history has shown that new defences merely invite new forms of breaching them and he said "without a doubt" the... [02 Feb 2005]
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. Firewalls are widely considered essential, if imperfect, defences against unwanted intrusions to a computer system... [27 Sep 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]
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. Most UK financial services firms have basic IT security flaws that could cause online banking... [20 Aug 2003]
Top ten tips to stop internal hackers
News Routinely audit the programme and fix the holes! Implement architectural features to isolate, minimise and monitor internal user access abuses such as using packet sniffers to monitor internal traffic and host and/or a network-based intrusion... [05 Feb 2002]
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