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Tips for Testing An Intrusion Prevention System

Testing an intrusion prevention system is still as much an art as a science, although the science is slowly gaining ground. eWEEK Labs testbed for...

IPSes are Coming of Age

Four years ago, the intrusion prevention system market consisted of a few next-generation intrusion detection system appliances with elementary blocking capabilities. Most vendors and...

CornerStone Keeps Malware at Bay

Centurion Technologies CompuGuard CornerStone ensures that malware will not cause lasting damage and is particularly useful for systems deployed in training labs, classrooms or...

Fake Microsoft Mail Is Spyware Phishing Attack

Security researchers have set off the alarm for a new phishing scam that piggybacks on Microsofts plans to make its "Windows Genuine Advantage" anti-piracy...

Browser Bugs Spare Internet Explorer for a Change

A vulnerability that allows the URL in the browser address bar to be spoofed appears to affect all Web browsers apart from Internet Explorer. The...

Anti-Spyware Consortium Falls Apart

A high-powered coalition of anti-spyware vendors has collapsed amid a rash of acrimony and finger-pointing.The Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology vendors (COAST) was rendered toothless...

Anti-Spyware Vendor Webroot Raises $108 Million

Enterprise anti-spyware software vendor Webroot Software has raised $108 million in a first round of funding.The Boulder, Colo.-based Webroot Software Inc. said the round...

Analysis Finds MySQL Code Low on Bugs

Just in time to counter security taints from last weeks MySpooler worm, which spread via weak MySQL passwords on Windows installations, MySQL on Friday...

MySQL Criticized in Wake of MySpooler Worm

In the wake of the MySpooler worm that spread via weak MySQL passwords on Windows installations last week, database users criticized the open-source database...

Reports: FBI Shutters Public E-Mail System

The FBI has shut down an e-mail system it uses to communicate with the public as it investigates a potential security breach, according to...