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Breach in Texas
The University of Texas suffered its second major data breach in three years when more than 197,000 personal records were exposed at the McCombs School of Business.
The breach compromised the Social Security numbers and other biographical information of alumni, faculty, staff and students of the business school.
Not much is known about the source of the breach, though UT officials said they are working on an investigation. In the meantime, the university set up a website and toll-free numbers to direct those potentially affected to protect their identities.
Jun 5 2006 10:41PM
Security
Company news
Lumeta, a provider of network intelligence solutions, has promoted David Arbeitel to CTO and senior vice president of product strategy. He previously served as senior vice president of strategic development. Arbeitel’s new role comes as Lumeta is expanding its overall technology focus to help businesses with compliance, IT optimization and security risk management.
Jun 5 2006 10:04PM
Security
IM-based malware threat grows
Just as the number of end-users enlisting instant messaging (IM) programs to communicate has risen, so too has the number of distinct families of IM-based malware. More attackers are utilizing this propagation method and infections are increasingly sophisticated.
Jun 5 2006 9:39PM
Security
Structure found in process
As technically oriented security professionals we often don’t pursue structure in our testing. We simply use the same vulnerability scans and penetration tests we’ve been using for years — updated, of course, for the latest network nasties. Today, that simply is not enough.
Jun 5 2006 9:35PM
Security
Advance commerce through innovation
Smart cards make perpetrating fraud considerably more difficult than "traditional" magstripe cards. In regions where offline processing is the dominant method for processing transactions this especially is true. As a result — and even though we have driven payment card fraud to an all-time low — our industry is now seriously exploring how smart card technology can become the primary driver in the evolution of payment card security.
Jun 5 2006 9:03PM
Security
Meet your attackers on their own own turf
There’s plenty of talk today about perimeter security strategies. Protecting the perimeter with multilayered security. Identifying the perimeter. The latest buzz on firewalls. Zero-day attacks. Worm storms. Security toolkits with the latest intrusion detection tools. Secure software applications.
Jun 5 2006 8:28PM
Security
Review: AppSense Application Manager and Environment Manager
The AppSense Application Manager (AM) can be set up as a standalone product in a test environment before actual deployment. The standalone
preconfiguration enables an administrator to get to know and tweak the program for the best configuration for each particular environment.
Jun 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: LANDesk Security Suite
This product incorporates all the features of a great endpoint security product in one program. LANDesk must be installed on a central server, which must pass certain security and version tests before install will begin. After installation, policies can be set for access, applications, software versions, service packs, anti-virus, and so on. Agents planted across the network also allow the console administrator to take remote control of machines in violation of policies. Security Suite is part of a larger set of integrated products.
Jun 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: UTM Plus
Network Box offers hosted security services based on its own custom appliances installed locally on end users’ networks. The company has a range of services designed to meet the requirements of firms of all sizes
– from small home office users to large corporate enterprises.
Jun 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Skybox View 2.5
This suite of security risk management applications contains components that analyze networks for vulnerabilities, identify risks, spot anomalous activity and report on it, raise alerts and track mitigation, then map the whole lot back to a set of business processes and risk models.
May 12 2006 12:00AM
Security
Cashing in on misconfigured systems
It’s not news anymore that cyberattackers penetrating corporate networks are after money, not infamy, these days. The bread they can make from these and other online activities, such as spam, is staggering. One only has to look at the recent case of Christopher William Smith, who allegedly made over $20 million illegally selling prescription drugs through spam emails.
May 10 2006 8:10PM
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