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Privacy Experts Scoff at Governments Plans to Secure E-Passports

Security experts and civil libertarians reacted with skepticism to the governments recent decision to reconsider data protection measures for new RFID passports. The "e-passports,"...

DNS Attacks Expose Key Flaws

The steady rise in phishing attacks in the last year, coupled with increasingly sophisticated scams such as "pharming" attacks, is driving interest in technology...

Ciscos NAC Leads Network Security Space

Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and the Trusted Computing Group have big plans for their competing client integrity architectures, but while the TCG and...

Auditing IRS Security

Walk around the elephant of the Internal Revenue Service, and like the six blind men of the fable, youll find a menagerie of beasts....

Windows Patch Management Still a Work in Progress

Its good to see that Microsoft has beefed up its infrastructure for managing Windows patching. However, the functionality that WSUS still cant provide—namely, patching...

Microsoft Puts IE Enhancements on Fast Track

"Longhorn" wont make its first appearance until the end of next year at the earliest, but with enterprises demanding better security tools, Microsoft Corp....

HFNetChkPro 5 Plus Catches Up with Rivals

Shavlik Technologies LLCs HFNetChkPro 5 Plus features several long-overdue improvements for large networks and remains one of the easiest-to-use patch management packages eWEEK Labs...

Windows Patch System Closing Gap

Windows Server Update Services represents a gargantuan leap forward for Microsoft Corp.s no-cost patching solution. WSUS overall feature set falls short of many competing...

Endpoint Spec Gains Traction

The movement toward a vendor-neutral, open architecture for endpoint security will pick up momentum this week when the Trusted Computing Group consortium unveils new...

ZyXels P1 May Be Right at Home

To help IT managers secure mobile users, ZyXel Communications has released the ZyWall P1 Personal Internet Security Appliance, a portable firewall and VPN device.At...