Security World: FaceTime greets, disarms spyware

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Monday, August 29, 2005

* FaceTime greets, disarms spyware
* Symantec, CipherTrust load up security appliances
* Prefilters put spammers in the crosshairs
* Stop spam at the source
* Encryption products aim to protect data from prying eyes
* Stealth Drive's Biometrics Secure Data to Go
* Update: Authorities make arrests linked to recent worm spate
* Product Guide: Mirapoint MailHurdle

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FACETIME GREETS, DISARMS SPYWARE

Sometimes the most subtle and accidental applications can open
significant holes in an enterprise's security infrastructure. FaceTime
Communications is mounting the argument that programs such as instant
messaging and Skype will do just that. Granted, it may be something of a
self-serving case since FaceTime sells software to block the malware
that might penetrate those weak spots, but the argument has some
substantial merit to it, according to Peter Christy, principal at
Internet Research Group.
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SYMANTEC, CIPHERTRUST LOAD UP SECURITY APPLIANCES

Much like most enterprise-class IT tasks, security can become weaker when
a company network is bogged down with too many devices. Management
borders on the impossible and IT can never quite get as clear a picture
of its own security as it needs.
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PREFILTERS PUT SPAMMERS IN THE CROSSHAIRS

Anti-spam filtering technologies have been perfected to the point where
you can expect to see better than 95 percent accuracy, with no more than
a couple of false positives out of every 10,000 messages. Despite this
amazing progress, enterprises are still under attack. The grim truth is
that filtering even 100 percent of incoming spam doesn't necessarily
solve the spam problem for large organizations.
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STOP SPAM AT THE SOURCE

Catching spam is a game of cat and mouse. The anti-spam vendors plug one
opening, and the spammers find a new one to exploit. (Mice are clever;
just think The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.) The cats throw
more hardware at the problem, and the mice simply overwhelm the system
by boosting the volume of mail. Move and countermove, thrust and parry;
the cycle continues, seemingly without end.
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ENCRYPTION PRODUCTS AIM TO PROTECT DATA FROM PRYING EYES

The world has changed, but you know that. Your auditors are now checking
to see if you're protecting sensitive information to meet
Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA requirements, among others, and your lawyers are
promising dire consequences if somebody gets into your database and
steals customer information. And although the laws may not require that
you encrypt your information, your auditors and lawyers probably do.
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STEALTH DRIVE'S BIOMETRICS SECURE DATA TO GO

Stealth is all about prevention. This small-form-factor USB micro hard
drive, roughly the size of a pack of cards and weighing approximately a
third of a pound, is the latest in secured drive offerings from Memory
Experts International (MXI). It uses biometric authentication and
256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) hardware encryption to keep
data safe from prying eyes.
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UPDATE: AUTHORITIES MAKE ARRESTS LINKED TO RECENT WORM SPATE

Local police have arrested two people in Turkey and Morocco under
suspicion of involvement in last week's spate of computer worms,
according to Microsoft Corp. The worms known as Zotob, Rbot and Mytob,
targeted the software giant's Windows 2000 operating system.
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PRODUCT GUIDE: MIRAPOINT MAILHURDLE

A component of Mirapoint RazorGate appliances, MailHurdle thwarts
spambots by sending an SMTP retry message to the originating server.
Most spambots aren't equipped to handle retries, and even if they
incorporate support for it, increasing the retry time can tie up their
server resources, making it prohibitively expensive to bypass this
technology.

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