PixAlert launches Free ImageGuard(tm) MailAssessor

By Grant Draper

Pixalert has detected a rise in risk levels when scanning enterprise email systems for inappropriate images, and has therefore announced the launch of its free downloadable add on ImageGuard(tm) MailAssessor.
Obviously, as an employer, it’s important to know what is and isn’t on your server.
Above all, a server that has inappropriate content means employees will [...]

Joy Global Shielded From Web 2.0 Hazards

By Rohan Parker

The announcement was made this month by Secure Computing Corporation that the gateway security company would be providing Secure Web(tm) to Joy Global Inc., the mining equipment manufacturer and distributor.
Secure Web, previously known as Webwasher, will allow Joy Global to protect against threats designed with Web 2.0 in mind.
Web 2.0 is the phase [...]

The ISAF Web site is online

By Alan Harten

The Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF), the cross-industry initiative founded by the ISSA-UK to raise awareness of information security, has formally opened its Web site.
Located at www.theisaf.org, the site seeks to act as a resource that will over time develop in to a focal point for IT security education, news and other relevant information from [...]

Welsh e-Crime seminar next week

By Alan Harten

e-Crime is high on the Agenda as its economic impact on the Welsh Business Community threatens to escalate.
That is the news as the 4th annual e-Crime Wales summit takes place at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport on the 11th June 2008, as part of the ongoing e-Crime Wales initiative to tackle the growing threat [...]

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 [...]

Innovative security features supplement Google Apps

By Dave Nixon

Google Apps set of office tools is being supplemented by the addition of security for remote workers.
Google Web Security for Enterprise, the consequence of last year’s procurement of Postini, includes real-time malware defense and URL filtering with policy enforcement and reporting.
In a statement Google added that an additional feature extends the same protections to [...]

‘Green’ IT Security?

By Alan Harten

According to Wick Hill Group chairman Ian Kilpatrick the IT industry isn’t considered to be exactly at the forefront of ‘green’ computing.
Its record can be regarded as poor across a whole range of ‘green’ issues, especially in the areas of power consumption, toxic substance use, need for air conditioning and a low product life [...]

New security concerns with Google Reader

By Alan Harten

A new feature that permits users to include notes in the Shared Items feed of Google Reader may be flawed.
The highest item in the Shared Items feed indicates that users can change text not only in their own articles, but also in any article, at least according to Ryan S. on Duff’s Device.
He is [...]

PineApp Release App To Battle Zombie Networks

By Rohan Parker

According to a statement released by PineApp, the company has created a new application, titled ZombiCop, which will combat the increasing amount of spam delivered from zombie computers.
This new method of spam has proved almost immune to the current anti-virus and anti-botnet software, however ISPs should now stand a better chance with the creation [...]

Face Book open to hackers!

By Grant Draper

Face book has an ever growing popular audience in the 21st century fad, that is, online social networking.
By setting up a fake profile, the BBC managed to steal the basic details of the fake account, which could easily progress into stealing someone’s identity
Face book has become what it is today because of the variety of [...]

Microsoft warns web-hosting providers of zero-day flaw

By Janine de Blois

The vulnerability affects Windows XP Service Pack 2 as well as all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. It allows for elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem.
An attack is possible through authenticated user provided code. Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL [...]

UK phishing attacks double

By Dave Nixon

Phishing attacks on UK customers have more than doubled for the first quarter of this year, according to Apacs, the UK payment association.
Apacs recorded more than 10,000 reported phishing incidents in the first quarter of 2008, in excess of 200 percent up from the same period last year.
Online banking victims due to fraud [...]

ISPs accused of tampering with web pages

By Dave Nixon

Approximately one percent of the Internet web pages are being altered in transit, sometimes in a detrimental way, according to researchers at the University of Washington.
In a paper, set to be delivered Wednesday, the researchers document some worrying practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 computers and revealed that [...]

DHS Secretary Hopes To Improve Defense Against CyberCrime

By Lashan Clarke

At a meeting for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Secretary of the DHS spent time emphasising how the government feels about cybrsecurity and what role it plans to take in tackling it in the future.
The federal government would like to continue to see private and public firms develop a sense of togetherness [...]

Macaulay Uses Vulnerability In Flash

By Lashan Clarke

Last year Shane Macaulay was successful in hacking a Macintosh in the hacking contest at the CanSecWest Conference in British Columbia.
This year, he was able to successfully hack a Windows Vista machine.
The hack that he used involved a vulnerability in Adobe Flash that was not unknown. However, for Macaulay it was not an [...]

Unpatched ActiveX hit by host of holes

By Dave Nixon

Hackers are using a novel multiple-attack package made up of seven ActiveX exploits, many of them never witnessed before, a security company has said.
Less than half of the flawed ActiveX controls have been patched.
The attack framework queries Windows PCs for susceptible ActiveX controls from software vendors Microsoft, Citrix, and Macrovision, as well as [...]

Seagate releases self-encrypting disk drive

By Dave Nixon

Seagate Technology is adding a self-encrypting facility to its Cheetah 15K disk drive.
The TCG Storage Architecture Core Specification 1.0, based on a specification from the Trusted Computing Group defines a method that storage system drives will identify encryption commands and authorisation requests, saidGianna DaGiau, senior product marketing manager at Seagate.
The self-encrypting functionality will be [...]

Microsoft to reveals latest security software

By Dave Nixon

Microsoft is to disclose its latest security software at next week’s RSA conference in San Francisco.
Over the past few months, Microsoft has revealed the software to a select group of users, but sources familiar with the company’s strategy said that it will release a beta version of the code to users during the conference. Microsoft [...]

The Latest Cybercrime Statistics On The Internet

By Lashan Clarke

Losses from fraud on the Internet, has steadily been at a growth of more than twenty percent, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which releases the latest FBI statistics.
Published reports on Thursday, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the results showed a slight decrease in the number complaints of civil fraud on the [...]

Details of next week’s Patch Tuesday released

By Isabelle Chaize

Microsoft’s next monthly security update release, due to take place next Tuesday, will include five ‘critical’ patches.
The eight patches to be released will address flaws in Windows’ most recently added products, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
One of the ‘critical’ patches affects every single version of the Windows OS, including Vista SP1 and Server [...]

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