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Article | 6/06/2008 Six burning questions about network security
Security issues often seem to smolder more than burn, but these six are certainly capable of lighting a fire under IT professionals at a moment's noti...
Article | 5/06/2008 Hong Kong, China Web domains cited as 'most dangerous'
Hong Kong and China are the "most dangerous" places to surf the Web based on country domain, according to McAfee's annual assessment of the riskiest a...
Article | 8/05/2008 McAfee, Yahoo team on Web security
McAfee and Yahoo this week announced a partnership on Web security in which Yahoo's search engine is making freely available to users the warnings abo...
Article | 2/05/2008 How one site dealt with SQL injection attack
The massive wave of SQL injection attacks that started striking Microsoft-based Web sites around the world more than a week ago claimed as one of its ...
Article | 28/04/2008 iFrame attacks surge, security firm says
A flood of SQL injection attacks on Microsoft Internet Information Servers are leaving Web pages with malicious iFrames in them, and Panda Security is...
Article | 17/04/2008 PCI standards body moves ahead on payment-application cert
The PCI Security Standards Council, which establishes requirements for the payment-card industry, Tuesday formally launched its payment-application se...
Article | 15/04/2008 Symantec chief talks acquisitions, Cisco's snub
Symantec chairman and CEO John Thompson last week delivered a keynote speech to thousands of security professionals at the RSA Conference 2008 in the ...
Article | 8/04/2008 Seagate unveils self-encrypting disk drive
Seagate Technology says it's adding a self-encrypting capability to its Cheetah 15K disk drive based on a specification promulgated by the Trusted Com...
Article | 1/04/2008 PGP publishes encryption APIs
PGP Monday announced it plans to make its encryption interfaces openly available. In addition, the company announced it intends to obtain Common Crite...
Article | 17/03/2008 Voltage unveils 'format-preserving' encryption tools
Voltage Security announced a software tool kit for adding what is known as "format-preserving encryption" to new and legacy applications.
Article | 6/03/2008 Behavior-based malware detection software on the way
Start-up NovaShield says that in May it will release its first security product for the PC, behavior-based detection software designed to catch, quara...
Article | 4/03/2008 Symantec offers endpoint encryption products
Symantec is taking its first step into desktop encryption by rebranding two endpoint security products from GuardianEdge, though the intent is to inte...
Article | 4/03/2008 Beware MonaRonaDona antivirus scam, researchers warn
If your computer gets infected with a Trojan called the "MonaRonaDona virus," be careful with what you use to wipe it off your computer, says antimalw...
Article | 14/02/2008 Hillary Clinton spam sighted in the wild
The Hillary Clinton election campaign is being exploited in a spam message that tries to trick users into downloading a Trojan to their desktops by pr...
Article | 8/02/2008 Grisoft changes name to AVG Technologies
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031307-cebit-grisoft-releases-small-business.html">Grisoft</a> Wednesday said it has changed the name o...

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