SECURITY

Women did well on Defcon social engineering test

Sep 03, 2010 03:34 am | IDG News Service

Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets.

To boost security, Facebook adds remote logout

Sep 02, 2010 05:01 pm | IDG News Service

Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts.

Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones

Sep 02, 2010 01:35 pm | Network World

Confidela's WatchDox is adding support for mobile platforms, starting with Android 2.2. Users can access selected, protected documents. But they can be restricted in being able to forward, print, or copy them. It uses an encrypted version of Flash to display documents, but a native version is being tested now for iOS devices like the iPhone.

IBM X-Force backs-off Google as major patch offender

Sep 02, 2010 12:18 am | Network World

IBM has overhauled its list of worst security patchers among software vendors, putting Microsoft at the top of its list and shifting Sun from No. 1 to No. 5.

Discover to get $5M from Heartland for '08 data breach

Sep 01, 2010 05:55 pm | Computerworld

Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year.

DARPA launches insider threat detection effort for military

Sep 01, 2010 05:22 pm | Computerworld

The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched an effort aimed at finding and detecting to insider threats on Department of Defense networks.

Blue Coat brings in new CEO

Sep 01, 2010 12:23 pm | Network World

Blue Coat Systems has brought in a new CEO, spinning the change as a way to free up outgoing boss Brian Nesmith from the daily grind of managing the company to instead work on product strategy.

Check Point bolsters VMware security

Sep 01, 2010 10:49 am | Network World

Check Point's Security Gateway software is now available in a virtual edition that is compatible with VMware virtual environments.

Microsoft still mum on programs prone to DLL hijacking attacks

Aug 31, 2010 09:43 pm | Computerworld

Microsoft on Tuesday again abstained from naming which of its Windows programs, if any, contain bugs that could lead to widespread "DLL load hijacking" attacks.

Novell rolls cloud-security service

Aug 31, 2010 06:31 pm | Network World

The cloud lifts Tuesday on Novell's Cloud Security Service, which is software designed so that hosting and cloud-service providers can offer authentication, authorization, provisioning and de-provisioning services to their enterprise customers.