Security team claims successful iPhone hack; Microsoft 'revives' root certficates

Security News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's Security News Alert, 07/23/07 Security team claims successful iPhone hack, 07/23/07: A team of security experts in Baltimore, Md., said it has found a flaw in Apple's iPhone handset that can be used by attackers to access private data stored on it. Buzzblog: Microsoft 'revives' root certficates that users distrust and kill: Want to eliminate an untrustworthy root certificate in Windows XP? Go ahead, but Windows may revive it and restore the certificate to its trusted status without asking or informing you, according to security expert Paul Hoffman. In Vista, they can't be killed at all. "If you are in an organization that needs to delete a root, it is very serious," says Hoffman. Black Hat/Defcon hackfests this week promise rollicking action, 07/23/07: Rigorous and sometimes raw disclosure of network vulnerabilities will all be part of the action at next week’s back-to-back hackfests, Black Hat and Defcon in Las Vegas. Optimize Your WAN: Network World Shows You How In this Executive Guide learn how optimization can supercharge your WAN. Click Here Firefox, IE execs spar over vulnerabilities, 07/19/07: An Internet Explorer program manager and the head of Mozilla's security added their voices to the browser blame game Wednesday, each saying that the other's application is at fault for multiple Windows zero-day vulnerabilities. Google cookie expiration plans called 'worthless', 07/19/07: Google's plans to shorten the life-span of cookies installed on a user's computer, ostensibly to improve user privacy, is being dismissed by some as complete hype. FBI planted spyware on teen's PC to trace bomb threats, 07/19/07: The FBI planted spyware on the computer used by a Washington state teenager to finger him as the person behind a rash of bomb threats e-mailed to his high school, court documents revealed this week. Juniper security, WAN optimization and application acceleration gear bolster financials, 07/20/07: Juniper Networks’ enterprise business showed signs of life in the second quarter, as the company posted sales that exceeded guidance and earnings in line with forecasts.

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