Storm Worm now just a squall; Firefox tries again for URI fix

Security News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Awareness Technologies Inc Learn how Desktop Agents Protect your Discover how desktop agents better protect against negligent employees and criminal activities from within your company. Learn how you can monitor Webmail, capture typed information, capture screen-based images and monitor off-net activities on every PC. Find out how you will significantly reduce all internal security threats with desktop agents. Network World's Security News Alert, 10/22/07 Storm Worm now just a squall, 10/21/07:The Storm Worm's days may be numbered, according to a University of California researcher. With attack code circulating, RealPlayer fix coming, 10/20/07: One day after Symantec researchers discovered software that attacked a critical unpatched vulnerability in RealNetworks's media player, Real says that a fix for the issue is imminent. Firewall secures battlefield communications, 10/19/07: A security vendor that helps protect U.S. military communications has adapted its firewall for use in tanks, Humvees and helicopters to prevent enemies from intercepting IP transmissions on the battlefield. Webcast: Get the latest on NAC Learn the latest on Network Access Control in Network World's Perspectives Editorial Webcast. Discover how IT professionals can leverage this hot security technology in their networks, while also learning about key management areas that have not yet been perfected. To learn more click here. Firefox tries again for URI fix, adds Leopard support, 10/19/07: Mozilla has released a critical security update to Firefox, taking a third shot at patching bugs in the way the browser can be used to launch programs from Web links. SonicWall announces larger UTM device, 10/19/07: SonicWall is expected to introduce at next week’s Interop New York conference a new family of fast, multifunction gateways designed to simplify deployment and management of security for large businesses. Scientists come up with self-encrypting document, 10/18/07: The boffins at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) have demonstrated a way to encrypt sections of a document so that sensitive information can be shielded from unauthorized readers. Stolen laptop prompts employee alert on possible breach, 10/18/07: Administaff, a Houston-based provider of outsourced human resources services, this week began notifying about 159,000 former and current employees about a stolen laptop containing their unencrypted personal data. Hidden costs of passwords, 10/18/07: Many users who focus on their individual experience and needs rather than on corporate security management think that passwords are free. Indeed, password functions come with our operating systems and much of our software; we don’t have to pay anything extra to buy this form of authentication. However, both common sense and research findings support the view that authenticating identity using passwords is a significant expense for organizations.

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