IT Security

June threat report from Fortinet

Gaming Trojans leap to the top of Fortinet’s malware chart for June with a large increase in these types of infections

02 July 2008: Fortinet

MS remote execution vulnerability protection

Check Point product users receive automatic protection from latest remote code execution vulnerability announced by Microsoft

02 July 2008: Check Point

Award for endpoint security received by Check Point

Endpoint Security recognised in Techworld awards for combination of network access and anti-virus security

02 July 2008: Check Point

Distribution agreement for Proofpoint e-mail security products

BEW Global to resell hosted and boxed product portfolio of e-mail protection systems from Proofpoint

02 July 2008: ProofPoint

Channel Partner Manager appointment at Mimosa

New recruit signals Mimosa’s intent to boost its channel partner program in the United Kingdom

02 July 2008: Mimosa Systems

Compromised playstation site poses risk to surfers

Sony’s playstation web site suffers injection attack putting visitors to the pages at risk of malware infection

02 July 2008: Sophos

McAfee Spam experiment comes to an end

Results of spam trial involving volunteers exposing themselves to a month of unfiltered spam reveals that unwanted e-mails are not benign and are closely linked to fraud and other forms of cyber crime

01 July 2008: McAfee

Tier 3 recruit to lead Huntsman charge into Europe

EMEA managing director for Europe to lead the deployment of Tier 3’s Huntsman technology into the European market

01 July 2008: Tier-3

Lack of NHS laptop encryption a breach of patient trust

Stolen health service laptop contained unencrypted patient data in the latest IT security scandal to hit public sector industry

01 July 2008: PGP (GB)

Extensibility added to unified threat management

Scalable unified threat management from WatchGuard enables companies to deploy unified threat management techniques throughout the enterprise IT infrastructure

01 July 2008: WatchGuard Technologies

Text based spam re-emerges to eclipse image spam

Spam trends in 2008 showed significant change away from pump and dump scams and image based scam towards standard text based e-mails

01 July 2008: BitDefender UK

Demand for compliance results in successful funding round

ForeScout Technologies gains development funding on the back of burgeoning demand for compliance products and network access control solutions

01 July 2008: ForeScout Technologies

Duplicate payments a concern for Senior Finance Managers

Survey of Financial Managers in the UK reveals continuing frustration of accounts payable packages with duplicate payment visibility remaining an issue

01 July 2008: Fiscal Technologies

Low IT security awareness amongst employees

Bell Micro report suggests that easily compromised passwords and low awareness of IT security in general is still prevalent in industry

01 July 2008: Bell Micro

192.com joins forces with the 3rd Man

Steps taken to make card fraud a thing of the past as two card fraud experts join to provide anti-fraud technologies

30 June 2008: 192 Business Services

Free e-mail image analysis tool

The ability to filter inappropriate images from e-mails is now available with ImageGuard MailAssessor available free from the PixAlert web site.

30 June 2008: PixAlert

Identity management for federal agencies

Secure access to digital resources in federal agencies available through partnership between Qwest and Route 1

30 June 2008: Qwest

PCI deadline an opportunity for holistic review of security

GSS warns against an approach of “bolting on” web application security in order to achieve compliance, recommending instead to build the additional security into a more holistic approach to IT protection

27 June 2008: Global Secure Systems (GSS)

E-mail security policy white paper available

Sophos has made its white paper on effective e-mail policies freely available as a download from their web site

26 June 2008: Sophos

Wimbledon fever strikes websites with malware

A number of web sites relating to tennis have been compromised in the build up to Wimbledon putting surfers at risk from malicious software

26 June 2008: Sophos

IPv6 domain explosion to challenge web filtering norms

The growth in the web predicted with the inauguration of IPv6 will generate considerable update problems for web filtering companies reliant on look up tables

26 June 2008: Bloxx

Fujitsu Siemens bundling deal extended to EMEA

Norman data security software will now be bundled on all Fujitsu Siemens consumer computers shipped throughout EMEA

26 June 2008: Norman Security

Browser based IT Asset Management

Vector Networks Issue Tracker enables web based IT asset management and issue tracking capability

26 June 2008: Vector Networks Technologies

Remote monitoring of staff IM activity

StaffCop 2.4 enables organisations of any size to monitor instant messaging traffic from corporate laptops

26 June 2008: AtomPark Software

IT end of life management still critical a year after WEEE

Tier 1 is increasing its co-operation with industry and IT companies for handling the environmental aspects of IT Asset Management

26 June 2008: Tier 1