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Register today to find out how to protect yourself. http://adserver.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=83478 _______________________________________________________________ Network World's Security News Alert Cracking the wireless security code, 10/04/04 We test 23 wireless products from 17 vendors to see if it is possible to deploy a secure wireless LAN with technology available today. <http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/1004wirelessmain.html?nl> Microsoft leaves colleges vulnerable, 10/04/04 Microsoft's licensing policies and legal restrictions that forbid schools from distributing software patches to many students are leaving IT executives at universities with potentially thousands of unmanaged desktops that pose a serious security risk. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404highered.html?nl> Super-connected users could aid IM worms, 10/04/04 Just a few users connected to popular instant messaging networks can cause the spread of worms, while choking off communications from "highly connected" users with many IM correspondents can slow the spread of worms, computer researchers say. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1004superusers.html?nl> Future Windows component could spur old-school viruses, 10/04/04 A planned component for Microsoft's next version of Windows is causing consternation among anti-virus experts, who say that the new module, a scripting platform called Microsoft Shell, could give birth to a whole new generation of viruses and remotely exploitable attacks. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1004futurwindo.html?nl> Adobe does document security 10/5/04 Electronic document giant Adobe said that it was partnering with digital certificate company GeoTrust to provide technology that will allow documents that use Adobe's popular PDF to be digitally certified. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1005adobedoes.html?nl> Symantec releases data recovery tools, 10/05/04 Security company Symantec Tuesday announced the availability of new versions of its LiveState data recovery software. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1005symanrelea.html?nl> Vendors tout SSL remote-access gear, 10/04/04 Three Secure Sockets Layer remote-access vendors are upgrading their equipment, one with software enhancements and two with new hardware. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1004004vpnprods.html?nl> Security management wares get smarts, 10/04/04 A slew of security event management vendors are set to offer products that address everything from how security problems affect applications to ensuring network devices comply with internal and regulatory policies. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404secmgmt.html?nl> SurfControl turns a trick on phishers, 10/04/04 In response to the growing threat that phishing poses to e-mail users, SurfControl plans to upgrade its e-mail filter to catch these attacks, and flag more spam and other abuses. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404surfcontrol.html?nl> Opinion: Getting patching right: A debate, 10/04/04 There is no silver bullet and solutions are emerging from multiple industry areas, making it hard to figure out the best course of action. To help put it in perspective, we're challenging a batch of vendors to participate in an online Network World Virtual Showdown "How best to patch" the week of Nov. 15. <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/100404edit.html?nl> IT pros may know more, but so do their kids, 10/04/04 Writing group policies, assigning user privileges and setting restrictive security zones for Internet access keep system management analyst Jason Kennedy plenty busy. . . . And then he goes to work. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404widernethome.html?nl> Opinion: Security tips from the Canadian trenches, 10/04/04 Look to save money in the right places. <http://www.nwfusion.com/nlsecuritynewsal680> Weblog: An Olympian security effor, 10/04/04 Despite worries about terrorism, the Olympics in Athens proceeded smoothly, marred mainly by controversy over judging. The IP-based network that connected 60 venues associated with the Athens Olympics also lived up to expectations. <http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/security/006419.html?nl> Entrust targets improper e-mail, 10/04/04 Entrust, best known for its encryption technology, last week introduced an appliance that works alongside e-mail servers to scan for inappropriate content entering or leaving an organization. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404entrust.html?nl> Spam control on an AIX server, 10/04/04 I've just been handed a new project - to control spam/junk e-mail within the company. Our e-mail server is an IBM AIX box, running Sendmail; local clients use Outlook/Outlook Express to retrieve e-mail. I've seen lots of products for spam control for ... <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/100404nutter.html?nl> Start-up takes new anti-virus tack, 10/04/04 Start-up Avinti is putting a virtual server twist on a well-known concept - quashing viruses that use e-mail as their delivery vehicle. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404avinti.html?nl> F5 appliance extends remote access, 10/04/04 F5 Networks is wheeling out new hardware that lets more remote users securely connect simultaneously to corporate networks than past iterations of its product. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404f5.html?nl> Citadel, Preventsys sharpen vulnerability-assessment tools, 10/04/04 A pair of vulnerability-assessment and remediation tool vendors are separately upgrading their products so that customers more easily can prioritize which networked systems need to be fixed. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404secwrap.html> Postal Service delivers single sign-on, 10/04/04 The USPS' IT department is enjoying the first fruit of a nearly two-year effort that has resulted in the rollout of SSO capabilities to nearly 150,000 users who access nearly 1,000 applications on the agency's network. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404postal.html?nl> Software follows trails left by computer thieves, 10/04/04 On rare occasions when employee laptops go missing, Joe Scavetti, chief information security officer at Pension Benefits Guaranty in Washington, D.C., isn't content to write it off to bad luck. Scavetti doggedly pursues each case, aided by software installed on each of the laptops that lets the devices call home. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404guarantee.html?nl> U.S. cybersecurity chief resigns, 10/01/04 Amit Yoran, the government's cybersecurity chief, abruptly resigned Thursday after one year with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a move that raised serious questions about the Bush administration's ability to quickly improve the nation's cybersecurity. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1001cyber.html?nl> Lumeta tool pinpoints weaknesses, 09/30/04 Lumeta next month plans to update its network-inventory and security-scanning software to include visual mapping and data mining to learn more about how traffic flows through enterprise nets. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0930lumeta.html?nl> Newsletter: Who is opting for IP VPN services?, 09/30/04 IP VPN services are growing slowly in popularity, with the vast majority of customers for these services converting from WANs made up of dedicated lines, frame relay or ATM, according to Vertical Systems Group. <http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/vpn/2004/0927vpn2.html?nl> Newsletter: Awareness also requires action, 09/30/04 Information security is everyone's business, but that message doesn't always filter up to the highest level of the organization. New research from Ernst & Young finds that companies should be doing more to safeguard their data. <http://www.nwfusion.com/nlsecuritynewsal681> Dell to sell ServGate appliances, 09/30/04 Security appliance maker ServGate Technologies next week will announce a line of products through Dell's Web site, providing hardware with integrated anti-virus, spam filtering and other security features for small businesses. http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/0930delltose.html?nl> Newsletter: Who locks the locks?, 09/30/04 Some friends recently told me about LCD projectors that were installed at their university over the summer. Seems the IT group ordered a bunch of projectors, installed them in the ceilings of classrooms at great expense, and then discovered an unpleasant feature in each projector. <http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/2004/0927sec2.html?nl> Newsletter: Inside NetVision, 09/29/04 NetVision is one of the older independent software vendors in the identity management market. Since 1996, it has provided tools for connecting different platforms for identity purposes. Its Synchronicity product line (now called NVIdentity) was the first service to leverage the power of Novell's Directory Service (now called eDirectory) and use it to manage users and their identities on platforms as diverse as Windows NT and Lotus Notes. <http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/dir/2004/0927id2.html?nl> Instant messaging worm exploits JPEG flaw, 09/29/04 Security experts have spotted the first attempts to create an Internet worm that propagates using instant messages and exploits a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft software. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0929instamessa.html?nl> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Network World Staff Senior Editor Ellen Messmer covers security for Network World. 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