New book: “Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals”
For over 40 years, the IBM mainframe has been the backbone of the world’s largest enterprises. If you’re coming to the IBM System z mainframe platform from UNIX, …
New U.S. patent for network security testing
Critical Watch, a provider of security risk management and compliance solutions, has been awarded United States Patent 7325252 for its original and comprehensive network …
Virtual infrastructure security for Citrix XenServer
Catbird announced the beta release of its V-Security virtual infrastructure security for Citrix XenServer. According to the company, this is the industry’s first …
Barracuda defends free and open source software from patent threat
Barracuda Networks announced it plans to defend itself, the open source community and the free and open source Clam AntiVirus software from a patent threat by Trend Micro. …
Online self-assessment tool for information security professionals
(ISC)2 announced the launch of a new online self-assessment tool known as studISCope. The tool aims to enable security staffs and individuals to assess their knowledge of the …
University course on malware analysis
F-Secure started a “Malware Analysis and Antivirus Technologies” course at the Helsinki University of Technology. Lectures are held by senior analysts and …
WatchGuard upgrades software on its appliances
WatchGuard released the latest version of network security software for its Firebox X Peak, Core and Edge unified threat management appliances. Version 10 includes a myriad of …
New release: The Book of Wireless
Wireless networking is ubiquitous, but how many people really know how it works, or what to do when it doesn’t? You plug in the router and your home network is set up, …
HITBSecConf2008: IT professionals come to Dubai
Hack in the Box is once again organizing one of the most well-known security conferences – HITBSecConf2008, taking place between 14-15 April 2007 in Dubai. The main aim …
Top 10 Web hacks of 2007
From Jeremiah Grossman’s blog: The polls are closed, votes are in, and we have ten winners making up the Top Ten Web Hacks of 2007! The competition was fierce. The …
Two new Valentine’s Day computer worms
PandaLabs has detected two new worms, Nuwar.OL and Valentin.E, which use the topic of St Valentine’s Day to spread. The first one, Nuwar.OL, reaches computers by email …
Weekly malware report
According to data gathered at the Infected or Not website this week, 22.86% of protected computers were infected by some type of malware. As for the most harmful codes this …
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