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whitepaper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic...
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper An error in a firewall policy either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not...
[04 May 2008]
whitepaper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic...
[03 May 2008]
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]
whitepaper This paper presents algorithms for throughput optimal routing in networks with holes and non-uniform traffic. In future, the analysis will be extended to networks with a larger class of holes and also will characterize the performance under...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This paper presents algorithms for throughput optimal routing in networks with holes and non-uniform traffic. In future, the analysis will be extended to networks with a larger class of holes and also will characterize the performance under...
[10 Aug 2007]
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]
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]
Comment It's a bit like the M25 but with pot holes, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians wandering aimlessly across. It also operates a permanent rush hour, with drivers squeezing five cars of traffic onto a road built with three and constantly leaning on...
[14 Jun 2006]
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]
whitepaper A related goal of Web Tap is to help detect spyware programs, which often send out personal data to servers using HTTP transactions and may open up security holes in the network. While several tools attempt to analyze inbound traffic for denial-of...
[14 Apr 2006]
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]
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]
whitepaper Firewalls worked fine for years, but now hackers have learned to exploit holes that exist in the firewall to let in valid traffic. The one surefire way to protect your network, at least from insidious outsiders, is to simply unplug your router.
[23 Aug 2005]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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