IT Security

ID theft in California the subject of report by Identity Theft 911

California state identity theft hits second place in the USA with high instances of employment and credit card fraud reported

14 August 2008: Identity Theft 911

MS vulnerability protection

Sourcefire customers have inbuilt protection from the latest vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft this week

14 August 2008: Sourcefire

CNN spam contains links to Malware

Sophos reveals malicious software is contained in the links of the latest wave of spam to reach millions of inboxes containing headlines which say they come from the CNN news service

14 August 2008: Sophos

Six critical patches released by Microsoft

Remote code execution vulnerabilities patched to protect Windows, Explorer and other Microsoft programmes in latest set of patches

14 August 2008: Lumension Security

Zero footprint media encryption

BeCrypt now provide a solution to Government data encryption headaches with Media Client which encrypts removable disks and USB devices with zero footprint

14 August 2008: BeCrypt

Web filtering technology explained

Eamonn Doyle of Bloxx provides an overview of web filtering technology and explains why a multi-layered approach is the way for the future.

14 August 2008: Bloxx

Disaster recovery for practice management suite

Legal offices gain protection through business continuity and disaster recovery from Avenquest for 750 lawyers

14 August 2008: Avanquest Software

End point encryption added to Avanquest portfolio

Encryption product for removable media from ENCRYPTX now available in the UK from Avanquest Software

14 August 2008: Avanquest Software

Access management rules for mixed networks

Management of firewalls simplified in mixed network environments by software based access management tool from Apani

14 August 2008: Apani

Vulnerability assessment and NAC for DoD applications

Alliance between ForeScout and eEye enable combination of network access control and vulnerability assessment to meet the stringent criteria of the Department of Defence

13 August 2008: ForeScout Technologies

Unified firewall protection for small businesses

USG range of products from ZyXEL provide network security for small businesses with VPN access control and secure site to site communications

13 August 2008: ZyXEL Communications

Russia suspected of hacking Georgian websites

The Georgian conflict is now believed to have taken an electronic turn with official government web sites having been hacked and brought down according to McAfee

13 August 2008: McAfee

NOD32 Antivirus for Canadian Ministry

Education Ministry in Canada chooses ThreatSense based antivirus technology from ESET

13 August 2008: ESET

EIM solution at US army exhibition

LandWarNet 2008 sees demonstration of certified enterprise infrastructure management system from NetCracker Technology

13 August 2008: Netcracker Technology

Virus protection for Gamers

After gaining popularity amongst the US gaming community, GameSafe is now launched in the UK to provide virus protection for PC gamers

13 August 2008: BitDefender UK

ISO certification for security management centre

Compliance and the protection of corporate data offered through the security management service from Interoute has received ISE/IEC 27001 certification

12 August 2008: Interoute

Intellectual property protection for Java applications

V3.50 of HASP SRM offers a range of enhancements including key memory management improvements and file wrapping

12 August 2008: Aladdin Knowledge Systems

License agreement on USB authentication tool

Giesecke and Devrient gain access to Aladdin USB based strong authentication technology through license agreement

12 August 2008: Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Two factor authentication could help protect against future risks

Report from ISACA identifies possible protection measures against risks identified with “cloud computing” including two factor authentication and encrypted VPN connections

12 August 2008: ISACA

E-mails also affected by DNS flaw

Black Hat briefing reveals extent to which DNS flaw can affect e-mails as well as web browsing

12 August 2008: ISACA

Hosted e-mail security for stockbroker

Simple Investments deploys Proofpoint hosted e-mail security solution from AN4 Group

12 August 2008: AN4 Group

Wide take up of anti money laundering software

High profile financial services companies have started standardising on dn:director for PEP screening and preventing money laundering

12 August 2008: Datanomic

Uplogix security management for service provider

Calyx to offer improved security management services in partnership with Uplogix as part of its managed services offering

12 August 2008: Uplogix

Rentokil saves money with good software asset management

Duplicate spending avoidance on license fees for software helped Rentokil Initial save substantial amounts of money with Enterprise Compliance Manager from ManageSoft

12 August 2008: Managesoft

Successful spam reduction for Eclipse customers

Hosted ISP based spam filtering proves a success as Eclipse Internet manages to successfully block over 98% of spam from its clients’ inboxes

12 August 2008: Eclipse Internet