Vendors tout desktop spyware protection

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Network World's Security News Alert

Vendors tout desktop spyware protection, 06/20/05

Choices in desktop anti-spyware protection this week are
widening with Aluria Software moving from the consumer market
into the corporate realm and Trend Micro announcing its product
entry.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062005-spyware.html?nl>

Audio: What is pod slurping? 06/20/05

To demonstrate the ease of "pod slurping" - the ability to copy
corporate information to an iPod's hard drive - Abe Usher
created an application that can suck Word, PDF, Excel and other
office documents off an office PC in minutes. Usher, founder of
Sharp Ideas , joins us to discuss his application and what
companies can do to combat the potential iPod security risk.
<http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/0620radio.html?nl>

Face-off: Gateways are the best way to stop spyware, 06/20/05

Using a Web proxy may be the only manageable, cost-effective,
business-friendly way to prevent spyware - because with a proxy,
organizations have a variety of techniques to understand and
manage Web content.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal2688>

Face-off: The desktop is the best place to stop spyware,
06/20/05

With the nature of business in today's world of mobile workers
and geographically distributed networks, focusing the battle at
the desktop must be the essential component of any anti-spyware
strategy.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal2689>

Opinion: DDoS extortion: Readers react, 06/20/05

A few weeks ago we discussed what has become an epidemic of
extortion attempts against companies by people who demand that
their victims pay up-typically by wiring money to an offshore
bank - or face a potentially debilitating distributed
denial-of-service attack.
<http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/062005buzz.html?nl>

Postini to promote reputation services, 06/20/05

E-mail security provider Postini last week said it has been
awarded a patent covering its approach to identifying threat
patterns in IP traffic, underlining the growing popularity of
such reputation services to help block spam, viruses and other
Internet-borne attacks.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062005-postini.html?nl>

Management Strategies: Hackers for hire, 06/20/05

Bringing in ethical hacker consultants is the latest in security
defense.
<http://www.networkworld.com/careers/2005/062005man.html?nl>

Adbuster, 06/20/05

Harvard student's hobby keeps adware vendors on the ropes.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062005widernet.html?nl>

Opinion: Detecting rogue access points on campus, 06/20/05

Our dormitories come pre-wired with Ethernet connections, for
which the students pay a small monthly fee. To get around the
fee, some students are installing Wi-Fi access points and
sharing their Internet connection with their roommates and other
friends - for free. How can I stop this?
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal2690>

German agency offers open-source security tool, 06/17/05

Germany's Federal Office for Security in Information Technology
(BSI) has developed a free, open-source tool that allows public
and private sector organizations and companies to test the
security of their networked systems, the agency announced
Friday.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061705-boss.html?nl>

Trojan e-mails suggest trend toward targeted attacks, 06/17/05

A report on Trojan e-mail attacks against critical
infrastructure systems in the U.K. highlights an emerging trend
away from mass-mailing worms and viruses to far more targeted
ones, analysts said.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061705-trojan.html?nl>
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Growing management complexity and increased security risks
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http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=106994
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