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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Malware knocks out U.S. Marshals Service network;Cisco releases patch for critical flaw in CiscoWork

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Malware knocks out U.S. Marshals Service network

Carolyn Duffy Marsan By Carolyn Duffy Marsan and John Fontana
Malware Wednesday crippled Windows-based computer systems at the U.S. Marshals Service, which hunts federal fugitives and operates the country's witness protection program, knocking the agency's network offline. Read full story

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Cisco releases patch for critical flaw in CiscoWorks
Cisco has released a patch that fixes a vulnerability in CiscoWorks Common Services that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to access application and host operating system files. The exploitability of this flaw is rated as high. Note that only CiscoWorks Common Services systems that run on Microsoft Windows are vulnerable. The Solaris version is not affected.

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X86 virutalization not ready for regulated, mission-critical apps
X86 virtualization is not ready for highly regulated, mission-critical applications, IBM security expert Joshua Corman argued at Interop Las Vegas this week. In addition to security threats to the hypervisor and the virtual machines it controls, virtualization makes it difficult to meet strict regulatory requirements such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Corman told attendees in a session on virtualization.


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05/26/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Are you ready for Mi-Fi?
  2. Huawei moves up in networking's big leagues
  3. Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
  4. YouTube hit by porn storm
  5. Malware knocks out U.S. Marshals Service network
  6. Wanted for hire: generalists, not IT specialists
  7. Cisco releases patch for critical flaw in CiscoWorks
  8. Inside the bad-ass world of military research projects
  9. MIT: Cloud computing to reshape IT
  10. Chrome 2.0 adds speed, not much else


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