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Smaller Players Filling NAC Void

Security products that perform health checks on desktop and laptop computers will be in abundance at this weeks RSA Conference. But industry leaders Cisco...

PGP Adds Encryption to IBM Mainframe, Midrange Platforms

PGP announced on Feb. 13 its new PGP Command Line for the IBM zSeries and IBM iSeries platforms at the RSA Conference in San...

3Com Debuts Quarantine Protection System at RSA

3Coms TippingPoint division on Feb 13 addressed the internal, LAN-based security threat faced by enterprises when it launched its new TippingPoint Quarantine Protection system. The...

Crossroads, Symantec Lock the Database Box

A new database security gadget that allows for proactive hack blocking has hit the market, with Crossroads Systems announcing its StrongBox SecurDB on Feb....

DHS Cyber-Security Head Reports Progress

SAN JOSE—The federal government has made "tremendous progress" in improving its information-gathering and operational capabilities and is working hard to make the private sector...

Microsoft Approaches Secure, Reliable Vista

Windows Vista may approach the reliability levels usually associated with Unix-based operating systems. So says my friend Rob Enderle, and he makes good sense. According to...

EFF: Dont Use Google Desktop

A high-profile privacy watchdog group has a terse warning for business and consumer users: Do not use the new version of Google Desktop. The nonprofit...

Ratings Game: Security Flaw Scoring System Flounders

Exactly one year after the introduction of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System as a vendor-neutral standard to get around the confusion of measuring the...

Feds Deem Operation Cyber Storm a Success

U.S. Government officials and private sector representatives held a press conference the afternoon of Feb. 10 to declare the Cyber Storm digital war game...

DOJ Indicts Hacker for Hospital Botnet Attack

A 20-year-old California man was indicted in Seattle Feb. 10 on charges that he used a computer "bot" network to cause computer malfunctions at...