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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Catbird's virtual security service; Internet Crime Complaint Center issues FBI fraud warning

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SPOTLIGHT STORY
Catbird launches virtual security service

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
Security vendor Catbird announced the availability of its Catbird HypervisorShield service, which the company says will protect virtual machines from management errors, unauthorized access and malicious attacks on the hypervisor. Read full story

Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers the technologies, products and services that address network, systems, application and IT service management for Network World. E-mail Denise.

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Internet Crime Complaint Center issues FBI fraud warning The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Tuesday issued a warning that it has received reports of fraudulent schemes misrepresenting FBI agents, officials and/or FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. The fraudulent e-mails give the appearance of legitimacy due to the usage of pictures of the FBI Director, seal, letterhead, and/or banners. The types of schemes utilizing the names of FBI agents, officials, or the Director’s name are typically lottery endorsements and inheritance notifications.

Storm botnet gets profiled at Web site, 01/15/08 Storm, which has grown into a large remotely controlled botnet since the initial worm appeared a year ago to infect victims' machines, is getting a graphic profile on a Web site set up to track it.

Nashville laptop theft may cost $1 million, 01/14/08 The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about $1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected.

Perimiter eSecurity buys e-mail compliance vendor, 01/15/08 Looking to expand its presence among New York financial companies, security services vendor Perimiter eSecurity has acquired Secure ...

Ikea closes global spam gap, 01/15/08 The global furniture giant Ikea has closed a serious security gap that for an unknown period of time gave hackers and phishers a free rein to exploit the company's mail server.

PGP adds whole-disk encryption to puzzle, 01/15/08 PGP has announced a major update of its encryption software, which it claims will make the technology easier to manage and use.

Mac security program tries to scare users into buying, 01/15/08 Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and Web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam.

Two-thirds of Oracle DBAs don't apply security patches, 01/14/08 Oracle issues dozens of security patches every quarter, but that doesn't mean database administrators are necessarily implementing them.

Spinning the hog cycle Infosecurity Today is quoting SANS as saying that "Infosecurity professionals will see improved job opportunities in 2008" (...) "as senior executives in government realize that their systems have already been compromised … that is an interesting perspective.

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