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Web Politics Demand Web Pros Attention

I felt an odd chill up my spine when I read last weeks comments from the U.S. Department of State on the subject of...

DoS Flaws Patched in OpenVPN

The open-source OpenVPN project has pushed out a "moderately critical" update to correct four security flaws that could cause remote denial-of-service attacks. OpenVPN, the free...

CA Plugs Message-Queuing Buffer Overflows

Security flaws in CAs Message Queuing software could put users at risk of denial-of-service and system access attacks, the company warned in an advisory. The...

Webroot: Spyware Rampant in the Enterprise

The number of Web sites distributing malicious software has quadrupled in the last year to more than 300,000, as the spyware problem continues to...

The Case for Encryption

With privacy-protection laws and regulatory-compliance guidelines hardening in virtually every industry, IT managers who dont have encryption in place should be scouring the marketplace...

Security Firm: Oracle Opatch Leaves Firms Uncovered

Think youre patched? Think youll get the thumbs up from the auditor when he or she comes knocking on your door to make sure...

GreenBorder Updates Malicious Software-Protection Tool for IE

Buoyed by interest from enterprise software buyers who are fed up with critical security holes in Microsofts Internet Explorer Web browser, GreenBorder is preparing...

Security Watch: Adobes Compromising Documents, Tainted CPAINT

Acrobat StumblesAdobe announced that the core application plug-in for Acrobat and Acrobat Reader had this teensy, tiny, small problem in that if a "specially...

Security Software Market Causes Insecurity

Is it just me, or is there a new security vulnerability every day? Oracle seems to be taking the brunt of things in the...

Worms Exploit Plug and Play Vulnerabilities

In 2003, the blaster worm infected as many as 10 million computers just three weeks after Microsoft Corp. issued a patch for the hole...