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• OS X Virus Described Mac antivirus vendor Intego warns of a possible OS X virus offered for sale.
• Study Paints Open-Source Software as a Security Risk "Go into this with your eyes wide open," says Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity czar.
• Laptop Security: Keep the Bad Guys at Bay Joe's laptop computer boasts some advanced security gizmos.
• SecuriKey Professional Edition 2.1 Whether we’re traveling across the country or just down to the local coffee shop, we’re increasingly on the go. And our...
• San Francisco's Mayor Gets Back Keys to the Network San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the passwords to the city's wide area network.
• Top Spammer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years A court ordered "spam king" Robert Soloway to serve 47 months in prison for spamming.
• Securing Your IPhone 2.0 The iPhone 2.0 software update released earlier this month offers some dramatic improvements from earlier versions in security...
• Sly Students Spell Trouble for Hapless Admin The school faculty believes its computer admin doing a great job, but the students know what's truly going on.
• Security Staff Nightmares Containing the painfully unqualified or essentially overwhelmed.
• IPNetSentryX 1.6.5 OS X includes a basic firewall that helps to protect your Mac from a variety of outside intruders, such as hackers trying to...
• VMware Appliance Is Convenient, But Not Secure Expert analysis and advice on server virtualization technologies, deployments and management.
• Protect Your Network From Rogue IT Employees An IT admin for the City of San Francisco holding the network hostage is just the latest high-profile example of the security risk posed by insiders. Learn what steps you can take so it won't happen to your company.
• More Fixes Needed, Says Finder of DNS Flaw Current patch options merely stopgaps; worst attacks likely on the way.
• Are Regulations To Blame for Mounting Data Breaches? Could oversight protections be creating a higher degree of security risk?
• RIM Warns BlackBerry Admins of BES Security Flaw A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) PDF rendering component could enable hackers to hijack associated infrastructure, RIM says.
• Five Things Kevin Mitnick Knows About Security Legendary former hacker on hacking, being hacked, and companies that turn a blind eye to security.
• Norton 2009 to Speed Up Malware Screening Symantec has built more than 300 speed and performance enhancements into its forthcoming security products, now in public beta.
• Cisco Exec Shares Virtualization Vision Data center chief John McCool says Cisco's Catalyst 6500 will play a key role.
• Alcatel-Lucent Adds Laptop Disk-Encryption Support Alcatel-Lucent has released an updated version of its wireless-security appliance for laptop PCs.
• Storm Worm Exploits US, Iran Tensions Be wary of e-mails with the headers like 'USA declares war on Iran'--Storm Worm is at it again.
• DNS Researcher Convinces Skeptics That Bug Is Serious 'It is way more serious than we had imagined,' says critic after closed briefing.
• Chip Maker Sues to Quash Research on RFID Flaws Researcher says chip hack could crack open 2 billion cards.
• How Microsoft's Patch Affects Business Processes, Security An entire industry has grown up around Microsoft Patch Tuesday: The five-year push for predictable, scheduled security fixes has spawned both Microsoft and third-party vendor tools specifically to deal with the complexity of installing Microsoft security patches.
• Remembering Longer Passwords Easily Switch to passphrases for better security.
• Microsoft Plugs Nine Holes in Windows, DNS, SQL It's among the vendors patching a multiplatform DNS vulnerability.