McAfee appliance watches for network threats McAfee Tuesday unveiled a security appliance designed to monitor internal corporate traffic flows for worms, viruses and botnet activity in order to block outbreaks traced to corporate computers. 20 projects that kept NASA hopping in 2009 From the space shuttle and Mars mission to water on the moon and ice on the Earth, NASA has its hands in a variety of critical projects Social network and banking scams are on the rise, says Cisco What do phishing, instant messaging malware, DDoS attacks and 419 scams have in common? According to Cisco Systems, they're all has-been cybercrimes that were supplanted by slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime over the past year. How to fight malware Tests of five Web security gateways reveal that performing inline inspection of network traffic is a must, as is querying cloud-based databases of the latest malware. The current crop of anti-malware tools offers strong protection against spam, spyware, phishing, botnets, rootkits, viruses and other Internet-borne attacks. Network IPS tests reveal equipment shortcomings An independent test and evaluation of 15 different network intrusion-protection system products from seven vendors showed none were fully effective in warding off attacks against Microsoft, Adobe and other programs. Novell grabs for big role in virtualization security Novell this week will lay out an ambitious plan to secure applications across heterogeneous virtualization platforms at customer sites and off-premises, an effort designed to play off Novell's strengths in network and identity management. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Cisco's SSL client will gain ScanSafe technology and Cisco, EMC venture preps for early Q1 launch; On Microsoft Subnet: Patch Tuesday: Six expected patches, two surprises; On Google Subnet: Chrome gains extensions, Mac, Linux versions Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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