| Insider theft at New York Police Dept. impacts 80,000 cops Former director of communications for NYPD's pension fund is accused of stealing computer tapes containing sensitive information on about 80,000 current and retired police... Windows security patches coming next week Microsoft will release three sets of security updates next Tuesday, fixing at least one critical bug in its Windows operating system. IT pro gets four years for building botnets An employee of search engine startup Mahalo has been sentenced to four years in prison for infecting as many as 250,000 computers with malicious botnet computer code. Microsoft: No patch for Excel zero-day flaw next week Microsoft Thursday said it will deliver three security updates on Tuesday, one of them marked "critical," but will not fix an Excel flaw that attackers are now exploiting. Mozilla patches eight Firefox bugs, six critical Mozilla today patched eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox, half of them critical memory corruption flaws in the browser's layout and JavaScript engines. How To Design Green And Secure Buildings Put a security guy in a room with an environmentalist and ask them to design a building. Wait five minutes and you'll hear fists pounding tables, chairs hitting walls and a steady flow of profanity. Alcatel-Lucent frees Laptop Guardian from hardware cage Alcatel-Lucent has unteathered its Laptop Guardian from its usual hardware form factor and turned it into a software solution, after entering into an agreement with wireless broadband provider Novatel Wireless. The Internet Protectors Guest writer Pat Bitton: We all know that there is a huge amount of variably accurate security information on the Web. There are many blogs, forums, bulletin boards, white papers, podcasts, and Webinars - some posted by vendors, others by enthusiastic volunteers. The trouble is, there is no coherent resource for all types of computer security information in one place that is appropriate for all levels of expertise. The arrival of social networking on the Internet provided the opportunity I'd been looking for to change this situation. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons New Horizons Computer Training is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 to be given to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader. Deadline for entry is March 31. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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