SAN MATEO, Calif. — Security hardware vendor nCipher plc has struck a long-term partnership with networking-silicon giant Broadcom Corp., giving both companies greater access to customers looking to increase their network encryption security technology.
Broadcom will deliver chips to nCipher for inclusion in the English company's security modules. Broadcom will then market the completed component to its networking OEM customers.
Wired has a story which tells the world how insecure AIM is and how AOL is dealing with it. A hacker can steal your AIM account. heheheh Apparently instead of fixing the problem they are trying to rid of the programmers web site which offers the hack program. This Hack's Sites Set on AIM
The latest Information Security Solutions Europe conference brings together ministers and experts to debate security. The Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) 2001 conference in London next week will attract many companies eager to improve computer security.
Security fears could put paid to vendors' dreams of public wireless LANS at airports. The idea of implementing wireless Internet access and ticketing systems at airports could fall by the wayside as airlines examine technology to improve security following the World Trade Center disaster.
Everyone and their brother has put out an advisory on NIMDA, the latest worm to thrash IExplore, Outlook Express, and IIS. This worm does a number of cute things that are well documented in the SANS advisory available here. Snort 1.8.1 included signatures to detect most of the attacks used by NIMDA already, but just incase you need a refresher the signatures are included.
To surf or not to surf - that is the question pondered by many employees before using the company Internet connection to check their stocks or follow the breaking news on the Net. And while many companies do not have a "no surfing" policy, it is reasonable to suspect that the security administrator is keeping an eye on the firewall logs; after all, that is his job, right?
The Nimda worm's habit of voraciously infecting executables files on the Windows servers it attacks, yet sparing a popular program known as WinZip, may have a simple explanation, according to anti-virus researchers. Mikko Hypponen, part of a team at Finland-based F-Secure Corp., which dissected the fast-spreading worm this week, told Newsbytes that Nimda's author probably knew better than to allow his creation to tamper with the WinZip program.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Nimda computer virus spread at dizzying speed through parts of Asia for a second day on Thursday, but experts said the worldwide outbreak may be close to peaking for the powerful server machines that drive the Web.
Computer security experts have described Nimda, the origin of which is not yet known, as the fastest-spreading computer virus ever.
The computer worm, a versatile program that spreads itself by e-mail and Web surfing, is also targeting personal computers, a twist that has allowed it to spread faster and made it harder to track.
Network administrators now have a hacking tool that can help them strike back at malicious attackers.
It's been a week and a day since the world changed -- and believe me, the world did
change, all of it -- and it's ever more evident that the rage is not going to go away.
Possibly on either side. Definitely not around here. I was in broadcasting in New York City
for a number of years, and a lot of the broadcast transmitters and network uplinks were on
top of the World Trade Center. There were engineers there, and in broadcasting, one tends
