Hackers post techniques for reversing iPhone upgrade; NAC alternatives hit the mark

Security News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Blue Coat Get the latest on Web Acceleration Tools Discover how to significantly improve document delivery times for users that are physically away from your centralized data center. A document that takes 80 minutes to delivery to a user across the globe could be delivered in three minutes with Web acceleration. Learn how your IT organization can benefit from this technology. Listen to this Webcast now. Network World's Security News Alert, 10/03/07 Hackers post techniques for reversing iPhone upgrade, 10/02/07: Owners of hacked iPhones have begun posting instructions on how to roll back a recent Apple firmware upgrade that rendered their mobile phones unusable. NAC alternatives hit the mark: Giant test of NAC point products: Symantec edges Juniper, Cisco and Check Point in test of 13 NAC products. Registration no longer required - check out the test today! Orange offers businesses all-in-one security portal, 10/02/07: Mobile provider Orange Business services has launched a centrally-managed service to secure PCs in a number of risky situations, including home worker PCs, and roaming laptops. Straight Talk from Security Experts Leading security experts share their advice, secrets and real-world experiences in Network World's latest Executive Guide, "The Security Treadmill." Learn how to get inside users' heads, fight for a bigger security budget and much more. Click here to download this Executive Guide. Paid-for 'zero footprint' browser launches, 10/02/07: A U.K. security company has launched a 'zero footprint' browser it claims will protect users from the security problems that regularly afflict popular browsers. Consumers only think they're cyber safe, 10/01/07: Most U.S. consumers believe they're protecting their computers against cyberattacks, but their actions indicate they aren't as safe as they think, according to a study released Monday. Got carrier questions?: National IT recruiter Matt Colarusso will be available for a live text chat Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. Eastern, no registration necessary. Just go to the Network World Chat page at the appointed time and log in. Security complications when DRM is overzealous: Blogger Tyson Kopczynski continues his exploration of the flaw he found with MS Genuine Office Validation: “From a licensing standpoint Visio and Office are in fact two different products. However, per what I encountered, these two products use the same validation and update framework.” Win a Cisco security book: Enter to win Monitoring with Cisco Security MARS by Gary Halleen and Greg Kellog, and published by Cisco Press. Plus: read a free chapter.

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