Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical Mozilla Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5. Cisco bolsters security family Cisco Tuesday announced the Cisco IPS Sensor v. 7.0, adding what it calls "reputation analysis" to augment the signature-based defense of the intrusion-prevention system. NSA chief doesn't want to do cybersecurity solo The National Security Agency doesn't want sole responsibility for running U.S. cybersecurity, the agency's director said Tuesday. Researcher wants hacker groups hounded mercilessly Criminal cyber gangs must be harried, hounded and hunted until they're driven out of business, a noted botnet researcher said today as he prepared to pitch a new antimalware strategy later this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Net security, Windows 7 and Conficker under scrutiny Cross-domain security on the Internet, Windows 7 vulnerabilities and the Conficker worm will be among the topics under scrutiny at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) held in Dubai this week. Day One RSA: Scouting Mission Cisco Subnet blogger Jimmy Ray Purser takes you through a first-hand visual tour of RSA 2009 in San Francisco. EMC, Symantec kick-off security barrage at RSA With the RSA Conference cranking up, EMC’s security division RSA and Symantec rolled out security product releases Tuesday. Can you cut information security in hard times and survive Although some analysts actually expect security spending to rise this year -- at least as a percentage of total IT spending -- some CIOs are giving serious thought to the once-unthinkable idea of trimming security budgets as businesses look to cut costs during this global recession. Hackers break into Pentagon's fighter jet project Hackers broke into U.S. Department of Defense computers and downloaded terabytes of data containing design information about the Joint Strike Fighter, a $300 billion stealth fighter currently under development, according to The Wall Street Journal. Upgraded tool tests SAP security weaknesses Sapyto, a tool to test the security of SAP systems, has been upgraded with new plugins that allow more thorough testing, according to the tool's developer. Lenovo shows tool to manage encrypted drives PC maker Lenovo hopes to give IT managers a helping hand with encrypted hard drive systems after announcing a new password management tool. Top Trends: Patch Management Find out how patch-management products work, and what they can do for you, in this Product Guide. April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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