| 12 spam research projects that might make a difference, 11/20/2007: Those who commit cybercrime know they need to stay on the cutting edge of technology to come up with new and different ways to swindle people ... Industry must completely rethink security protocols for mobile devices, security pro says, 11/20/2007: Open source mobile broadband is doomed unless carriers, software developers and device manufacturers are willing to completely rethink how they ... A step in the right direction away from credit abuse, 11/20/07: I’m writing this just before Thanksgiving, and one of the many things I’m thankful for is that the major credit-reporting agencies finally understand they were a major part of the identity-theft problem. Free password generators, Part 1, 11/20/07: Some help desks suggest to their users that they try public password generators to create good passwords. I looked at a few generators, and here's what I ... What early NAC adopters really want, 11/20/07: Recent interviews with some early adopters of NAC indicated they're not interested in the technology for the endpoint checking that brought NAC into ... Beyond the firewall, 11/19/07: This year, with all of its data breaches, has certainly proved that network security is much more complex than at past times, when firewalls were viewed as premium defense collateral. What are some methods/policies I should be aware of as I look to ... Re-assessing risk (The crown jewels are almost worthless), 11/19/07: A popular expression in security circles is to equate critical company intellectual property with the crown jewels. The crown jewels are protected by many layers of security, but the truth is that they make very poor targets for theft because they ... Misspelled children’s Web sites lead to porn, 11/19/07: Children’s Web sites are frequent targets of typo-squatting, a growing category of online fraud which lures unsuspecting Web surfers to malicious sites when they misspell the URL. Swedish teenager convicted of hacking into Cisco-based networks: A teenager from Sweden was convicted Monday of intruding on the Cisco-based networks of three Swedish universities. Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol to be supported in XP SP3: Microsoft Subnet blogger Chris Amaris writes that the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) introduced in Windows Server 2008 allows VPN connections over HTTPS/port 443, a good choice. The downside is the only operating systems supporting it were Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1. Since users aren't going to have Windows Server 2008 on their laptops and Vista has been less than popular, Microsoft has decided to support SSTP in XP SP3. | 
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