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Senator Floats Heftier Bill on Data Theft

The day before data broker LexisNexis increased by nearly tenfold the number of identities feared stolen in last months data breach, Sen. Dianne Feinstein...

Microsoft Patch Day Brings Urgent Updates

The Microsoft security train made its scheduled monthly stop on Tuesday, dropping off eight updates to cover 18 vulnerabilities in a range of widely...

Hi, Im SP2 and Im Moving In

Today, April 12, is the day. Like it or lump it, Microsoft is pushing Service Pack 2 to your XP machines even as youre...

OpenOffice Confirms Buffer Overflow Flaw

The OpenOffice.org community on Tuesday confirmed the existence of a potentially serious heap-overflow vulnerability in its freely distributed office productivity suite. The flaw affects OpenOffice...

Exploit Code Posted for Microsoft Jet DB Engine Flaw

A private security research outfit on Tuesday warned that a "highly critical" vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine could be exploited by malicious...

Two-Factor Authentication Still Strong

Bruce Schneier, a highly respected security expert, recently wrote an essay titled "The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication." Schneiers article has stimulated a lively debate...

FOSE Event Homes in on Security

Despite a continued focus on security in the nations capital, one security commodity that many government IT professionals seek above all—more information from the...

Network Data-Stream Protection

WINNER Vernier Networks Inc. Adaptive Security Platform 1.0 As increased device and user mobility dissolve the network perimeter as we know it, the need to provide at-connection...

Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation

WINNER Citadel Security Software Inc. Hercules 3.5 Designed to cope with voluminous security updates and intermittently connected mobile devices, Hercules 3.5 assists enterprise IT managers in doing...

Cisco Patches IOS Security Flaws

Routing and switching giant Cisco Systems has released patches for a pair of denial-of-service and system-access flaws affecting a range of IOS-based devices. The most...