Downadup worm may hammer Southwest Airlines URL March 13 Computers infected by the Downadup worm will "phone home" to several legitimate URLs this month, including one owned by Southwest Airlines , potentially disrupting those sites, a security researcher said Sunday. Damballa unveils anti-botnet product, badmouths McAfee A/V Start-up Damballa Monday unveiled the third version of its Failsafe botnet detection appliance, while also badmouthing McAfee's desktop antivirus software, claiming it often failed to detect malware samples during a six-month study. Protecting a business from angry ex-employees A senior corporate executive leaves the company, taking with him his framed family photographs, his prized gold pen-and-pencil set -- and the passwords of several hundred employees. University Admits to Third Recent Breach The University of Florida in Gainesville late last month disclosed that a breach discovered in January exposed personal data on 97,200 students, faculty and staffers who attended or worked at the school between 1996 and 2009. Surf Anonymously - And More Safely - With IP Privacy The Web is full of snoopers, spyware, and people who want to steal your private information. IP Privacy ($40, 3-day free trial) can help protect you against them by helping you surf anonymously--that is, hiding your IP address and other personal information that Web sites can gather about you. Security at 10Gbps How can your firewall and other security devices achieve inspection of packets that flow by at an astounding rate of 10Gbps, questions Cisco Subnet blogger Scott Hogg. Cisco NAC Solution receives Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification A slew of Cisco NAC devices have earned the Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification, reports Cisco Subnet blogger Jamey Heary. IT in 2109: Living Quantum Computers, Mind Reading PCs, and DNA nanofiber CPUs Cisco Subnet blogger Jamey Heary offers a sci-fi view, based on science of today, of IT 100 years from now, part 2. Avoid Steam Games Scam Sites Steam, a digital distribution platform for PC games, does away with the need to keep old installation cd's around. I've used it for a few games myself. But as Christopher Boyd at the SpywareGuide blog points out, if someone lifts your username and password, it's the equivalent of someone walking off with all your game cd's. 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. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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