Attend Black Hat USA 2007 Briefings for FREE! – Winners announced
Our randomizer picked four winners of complimentary Black Hat DC Briefings access passes. They are: 1) Andew M. 2) Douglas F. 3) John D. 4) Sajeev N. Information regarding the …
New Samsung ultra-mobile portable PC with a fingerprint sensor
AuthenTec’s AES1610 fingerprint sensor will be used in Samsung’s new Q1 Ultra model ultra-mobile PC for consumers. Samsung’s Q1 Ultra combines extreme …
New gateway-to-endpoint products from Trend Micro
Trend Micro announced two new gateway-to-endpoint product suites — NeatSuite Standard, for medium-sized business customers, and NeatSuite Advanced, for enterprise …
Google to acquire messaging security company
Google Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a company which services include message security, archiving, encryption, and policy …
Collection of security news, happenings and articles from the past week
This is a weekly roundup of all the security news, articles, software releases, vendor advisories and webcasts that were published on Help Net Security during the past week. …
77% of security professionals back UK data-breach disclosure law
The push for the European Directive on Data Protection to be passed as UK law is gathering pace, according to database security company, Secerno. A survey of IT security …
Financially motivated threats the most frequent malware in June
According to PandaLabs, Trojans and adware accounted for 49.6% of infections detected by Panda ActiveScan in June. Trojans, which increased by 0.75% this month, caused 26.89% …
90% of corporate e-mail in the past quarter was spam
During the second quarter of 2007, spam accounted for more than 90% of corporate mail received. This data has been compiled from companies who have contracted TrustLayer Mail, …
Virses using iPhone, Harry Potter and sex
Aiphone.A is a Trojan that takes advantage of the anticipation surrounding iPhone to steal users’ banking data. This will be the subject of this week’s PandaLabs …
Technology that prevents taking screenshots of protected PDF content
LockLizard, specialists in PDF and web based information DRM solutions, announced a major new step forward in anti-piracy controls – preventing screen grabbing of their …
New software authenticator generates one-time passcodes on mobile devices
Secure Computing announced the availability of SafeWord MobilePass, a new software authenticator that allows a user access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Citrix, Outlook …
GFI LANguard N.S.S. named Best of Tech Ed 2007
GFI Software announced that its vulnerability management solution GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) was named as a winner of the “Best of Tech Ed Awards …