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The latest security news, insight, analysis and product reviews covering network security, Anti Spam and Anti Virus. Coverage includes topics such as Network Access Control (NAC), botnets, phishing, wireless network security, computer network security, data security, malware and the latest security trends.
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They may not be real-world problems, but wildcard certificates have some definite theoretical problems. But they can be so much cheaper that users will buy them anyway.
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Apple released a large security update that touches on nearly two dozen Mac applications and features. The release includes updates for Apache, PHP, ClamAV and MySQL.
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The Check Point VPN-1 VE is designed to protect resources in VMware ESX and ESXi environments. While the VPN-1 VE does reduce security risk in these deployments, IT administrtors will need some consulting help or staff with knowledge of both VMware ESX and security to take full advantage of the product.
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It turns out there are several so-called dirty little secrets that not every vendor will tell you ahead of time about archiving products. There are five categories of these "secrets": scalability, data protection, performance, data migration and energy efficiency. If you're in the market, you need to read this first.
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Customers of data archive systems, along with many others within the industry--including evaluators/editors and market analysts--are often unaware of some important limitations on data archiving solutions--in particular, content-addressable storage archives.
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Symantec and Google didn't get Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's memo that SAAS and cloud computing are overhyped. Symantec bought security SAAS provider MessageLabs for a bundle while Google simplified pricing for its security SAAS. Web services security for enterprise applications and messaging and collaboration tools is alive and well.
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Security vendors Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Secure Computing and Sophos have acquired many companies in 2008, consolidating the security market amid an economic downturn. Symantec acquired MessageLabs, SwapDrive, AppStream and Vontu; McAfee acquired Reconnex and Secure Computing; Secure Computing acquired Securify; Sophos acquired Utimaco; CA acquired IDFocus; and Trend Micro acquired Identum and Provilla. Here's a rundown of these significant security acquisitions.
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Microsoft plans to release 11 security bulletins, four rated critical, for its October Patch Tuesday. The security bulletins cover multiple Microsoft products, including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office Excel.
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From Symantec to McAfee, IT security companies are still spending money on acquisitions in the face of trouble in the U.S. economy. Symantec's move to buy MessageLabs is just one of several acquisition moves by major security vendors in the past few months, including plays by McAfee and Sophos.
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Even in the volatile U.S. macroeconomy, EMC's prospects remain solid. After all, the volume of personal and business data continues to rocket skyward at 60 percent growth per year with little or no chance of a slowdown; all that information has to be stored somewhere. Despite the serious downturn, as the United States is experiencing now, enterprises are hesistant to cut down on storage budgets for that very reason.
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EMC didn't get to be the world's largest, most successful data storage company by standing pat. In fact, the huge corporation has swallowed no fewer than 40 other companies -- for their technology and their talent -- in the last five years. Here are some facts you probably didn't know about this remarkable organization.
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You've diligently educated your users, patched your systems, and installed anti-virus products on your endpoints‹but are those measures enough? Application whitelisting is a different approach to the problem of securing Windows clients that's has been around for a while now, but has gained new currency over the past several months. Application whitelisting, which contrasts with the blacklisting approach embodied by typical anti-virus products, involves barring all but approved executables from running on a given machine. eWEEK Labs considers these claims, and the products that implement them.
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The 20-year-old son of a prominent Tennessee Democrat stands accused of hacking into the e-mail address of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The alleged hacker, David Kernell, was indicted Oct. 8 by a federal grand jury and faces a maximum of five years in prison if convicted.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Lumension Security CEO Pat Clawson talks about why business leaders are not well-versed in security issues that could seriously threaten their business, which is a subject he goes into depth on in a new e-book.
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Symantec has agreed to buy MessageLabs for roughly $695 million. The purchase is aimed at expanding Symantec's software-as-a-service business. Founded in 1999, MessageLabs specializes in Web and messaging security.
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The Check Point VPN-1 VE is designed to protect resources in VMware ESX and ESXi environments. While the VPN-1 VE does reduce security risk in these deployments, IT administrtors will need some consulting help or staff with knowledge of both VMware ESX and security to take full advantage of the product.
CA HIPS is a serviceable application whitelisting tool, particularly for businesses already using other CA security products. However, time-consuming challenges, such as identifying software on Windows PCs, make it more difficult to use than competing software.
With Parity 4.1, Bit9 offers an application whitelisting product that could challenge conventional anti-virus security tools. Bit9 Parity 4.1 joins other app whitelisting security tools from such vendors as CA, CoreTrace and Lumension.
VMware, Microsoft and others are rolling out safeguards for virtualized IT infrastructures, but are they enough in the quickly changing data center?
Check Point's ZoneAlarm ForceField uses virtualization, inline download scanning and DNS validation services to secure browsers, but the software leaves a lot to be desired.
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