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Free security scan available for the new SANS Top 20
Qualys announced the availability of a free network scanning service to help companies find and eliminate vulnerabilities listed in the annual SANS Top 20 update for 2007 that …
VirusScan now available on Mac OS X Leopard
VirusScan for Mac v8.6 is one of the first anti-virus solutions for Apple’s newest operating system, Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard. With the release of McAfee VirusScan …
Majority companies feel they are secure against the risk of data leaks
The email survey, conducted during the week of the HMRC data loss, showed that the majority of respondents feel their companies are secure against the risk of data leaks. …
Trojan directs computers to porn sites and drugs stores
Half part pesky and half part sleazy. That’s how you can describe this malware that takes over your browser and redirects it to pornography and diverts online searches …
The Case for Automated Log Management in Meeting HIPAA Compliance
The Impact of HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, was passed in 1996 by the US Department of Health and Human Standards (HHS) to …
New SANS Top 20 list points to two major transformations in attacker targets
This year’s SANS Top 20 illuminates two new attack targets that criminals have chosen to exploit, and the older targets where attackers have significantly raised the …
Macrovision acquires Blu-ray disc security technology
Macrovision completed its acquisition of SPDC (Self-Protecting Digital Content) technology from Cryptography Research, Inc., a San Francisco-based R&D organization …
NetShred X privacy tool now supports Safari 3 and works on Leopard
Mireth Technology Corp. has released version 4.1 of NetShred X, its easy to use internet track eraser that erases internet tracks, such as cache, history and email. NetShred X …
New Firefox release fixes three security issues
A new version of the Firefox web browser has been released. Firefox 2.0.0.10 fixes three security vulnerabilities: Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition – …
“Man in the Browser” attacks becoming popular among cyber criminals
F-Secure warns computer users of an upsurge in attacks against banking sites, targeting personal user data. These attacks use a new generation of malicious codes in a …
Survey shows that spyware poses the biggest threat for organizations
Spyware now poses the biggest security threat to organizations, while threats from worms, viruses and browser-based attacks have lessened, according to research from the …
New security compliance management suite
netForensics introduced its nFX One security compliance management suite. nFX One provides organizations of all sizes with solutions to address external and internal threats, …
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