10 Gig Threat Management System From Arbor

By Alan Harten

Arbor Networks, Inc., provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, announced today the industry’s first 10 Gig distributed denial of service (DDoS) detection and mitigation system that enables application-layer attack protection.
The Threat Management System 3100 (TMS) delivers deep packet inspection (DPI) of more than 80 critical IP services and applications running [...]

Small businesses and electronic crime

By Grant Draper

A You Gov survey has revealed that the cause of stress and anxiety in the work place comes from technology not working, difficult suppliers and clients, heavy workloads, tight deadlines and long hours.
Businesses were also questioned about their views on work based crime, fear of theft, or loss of confidential data for instance.
Amazingly, the reality [...]

Worry Free Business

By Grant Draper

Trend Micro Incorporated have developed the next stage in security with their latest feature for QuickBooks protection, the new Worry-Free Business Security 5.0, a data and identity theft protection feature, which protects users QuickBooks from changes from other programs, unless authorized.
The new Worry Free Business Security has already been commended, with an Intuit Developer [...]

Yahoo Lottery Scammers

By Grant Draper

Yahoo has filed a formal complaint and lawsuit against a group of individuals, the “Yahoo Lottery Spammers”, after several attempts to steal the public’s personal information by misleading them into a false sense of security, offering them a prize from Yahoo.
In a variety of emails, contestants were ‘awarded’ prizes, as long as they filled out [...]

Secure Computing finds insider threats are biggest worry

By Alan Harten

Secure Computing Corporation an enterprise gateway security company, today announced the results of an IT Director survey that uncovers a rising concern about insider threats and widespread acknowledgement of being unprepared for emerging Web-based attacks.
When asked whether they believed insider or outsider threats posed a bigger problem to their organisation, more than 80% of the [...]

Cellcrypt hypes ultra-secure mobile calls

By Dave Nixon

UK stealth modemarket entrant, Cellcrypt, has begun touting an innovative encryption system that attempts to resolve a security dilemma most companies would rather avoid – insecure mobile phone calls.
Cellcrypt claim that governments and large companies in the financial sector have become progressively more anxious about the possibility of snooping on mobile phone calls of a [...]

New Data Risk Assessment Service From Pentura

By Rohan Parker

The first Risk Management Service Provider in the UK, Pentura, have announced the pending release of a new Data Risk Assessment Service.
The service will give businesses the opportunity to evaluate the risk level for business critical data.
Along with that, IT departments will be given the ability to constantly monitor data access behaviours surrounding [...]

Bull publicizes bootable USB drive

By Dave Nixon

Bull has a gadget for businesses concerned about the security of data stored on laptops, namely a bootable, portable password-protected hard disk drive with an embedded cryptographic processor that shields data if the device is misplaced or stolen.
Globull is a bright red item about the size and weight of an iPod Classic. It has [...]

Apple finally fixes $10k fault

By Dave Nixon

Apple has released a security patch for its Safari web browser, fixing the flaw that earned one security researcher $10,000 at the CanSecWest security conference.
The flaw was exploited by Independent Security Evaluators Researcher Charlie Miller to gain access to a MacBook Air computer three weeks ago. It lies in the WebKit open-source HTML rendering [...]

DOJ Highlights Fight Against Money Laundering

By Lashan Clarke

At the recent RSA Security Conference, two attorneys for the Department Of Justice section that deals with cybercrime, highlighted two online sites that have been used in the past to launder money.
Working with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), the attorneys stated that Web sites E-gold and Neteller have previously been used [...]

Better organization the key to fighting cyber-attacks

By Dave Nixon

Collaboration between different organisations is the solution to coping with co-ordinated cyber-attacks. That’s the view of Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and communications at the US Department of Homeland Security describing the build-up to the Cyber Storm II exercise completed last month.
Cyber Storm 2 was a week-long, cybersecurity recreation that included mock [...]

Criminals invest in crimeware-as-a-service

By Dave Nixon

‘Crimeware as a service’, where criminals use online cybercrime services rather than running their own servers and software, is the most recent development in internet crime, according to a report.
The term has been coined by security supplier Finjan, in the latest report from its Malicious Code Research Center. Finjan recognized that criminals have started [...]

Laptop thieves thwarted by tracking system

By Dave Nixon

Laptop tracking systems are successful, and Absolute Software has a real-world instance to add to its PR armory. The security tracking company’s LoJack system has been used to seize alleged laptop thieves at a US airport.
Three men, all baggage handlers, were arrested at Tampa International Airport after a shipped laptop via Continental Airlines did not [...]

‘Ethical hacking’ taught at training camps

By Isabelle Chaize

A new generation of hackers are being specially trained by companies like InfoSec Institute.
They are being taught how to hack into IT systems in order to understand how genuine cyber criminals gain access, and so to better prevent them from infiltrating companies’ systems.
The InfoSec Institute is a US training organisation based in Illinois, one of [...]

US service tracks absent backup tapes

By Dave Nixon

An innovative system has been launched in the United States, which uses GPS technology to trace missing backup tapes.
Fujifilm Recording Media teamed up with SC-Integrity (SCI) to establish the Fujifilm Tape Tracker, which can be placed in a standard cartridge so it appears like any other half-inch digital tape, and transported along with a [...]

Google Calendar used to deliver spam

By Isabelle Chaize

According to Trend Micro, the Google Calendar tool is being used by spammers to get round spam filters, which is the first time they have seen such a mechanism being used.
Trend Micro have been tracking spam in all its different forms over the last 12 months, and have discovered this new method for delivering [...]

Finjan discovers website offering volume purchase of stolen credit cards

By Janine de Blois

“If further proof were needed that there is a very serious problem facing the card acceptance and processing industry, this is it,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan.
“Prices are segmented depending on whether a card is a Classic Visa or MasterCard, a premium account such as a Gold, Platinum or Business/Corporate [...]

US agency issues USB devices to employees in attempt to control security

By Janine de Blois

Workers at Washington’s Division of Child Support have begun issuing SanDisk Cruzer drives which provide 256-bit AES encryption and are password-protected.
They are replacing all the privately owned devices which many workers were using to store clients personal data.
The personal data ranges from Social Security numbers, tax and employment records, to criminal [...]

New telecommuting system for home and remote workers will reduce CO2 emmissions

By Janine de Blois

Aruba Networks and Avaya have teamed up to pave the way for the future by producing an IP-based voice and data access system for teleworkers. More and more people are working from home or small remote offices and require an easy to use system to keep in touch as though they were at the office. [...]

Austrian start-up offers firewalls in UK

By Dave Nixon

This month sees the soft launch in the UK of a minute but rapidly-growing Austrian start-up that claims it can compete with the security giants Cisco, Juniper, and Check Point.
Appears to be an implausible goal, but novice and IPO success Phion is flush with success, having lately outbid rivals to win a massive 2,500 [...]

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