| Trusted users pose significant security threats, survey finds, 12/10/07 It probably doesn't give security managers much comfort to hear that the majority of internal employees that pose a significant threat to network security are well-meaning, innocent offenders -- as opposed to those with malice on the mind. Holiday time fertile ground for IM, Web-based threats, 12/11/07
Symantec's holiday spam listing is seeing an increase in threats which capitalize on the concept of a trusted source or Web site. Microsoft Patch Tuesday has three on critical list, 12/11/2007 Microsoft Tuesday released two critical patches for Windows and one for Internet Explorer that is being actively exploited, according to Microsoft ... (Plus: Cisco aims to soothe Microsoft Patch Tuesday Cisco's revamped security center aims to help network admins cope with Microsoft Patch Tuesday alerts.) iPhone to be target of hackers in 2008, 12/11/07 The iPhone has been the target of many users who wanted to customize the way it looks and hackers who wanted to use the device on other wireless networks since it was released in June. However, Arbor Networks predicts the seriousness of attacks on the iPhone will increase in 2008. DNS attack could signal Phishing 2.0, 12/11/07 Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet. NBA: Your last line of defense, 12/10/07 There’s a new weapon in the security arsenal that monitors network traffic and issues real-time alerts when it spots unusual or suspicious behavior on the network. Data breaches, regulations fueling data encryption adoption, 12/10/07 Data encryption grows in government and business in reaction to data-breach fiascos, regulatory requirements. Private customer data vulnerable during application testing, 12/10/07 Sixty-two percent of companies surveyed by the Ponemon Institute report that during the application development and testing process, they use real customer data-including employee, vendor and customer records, and credit card and Social Security numbers-instead of disguised data to test applications. IT managers fight to keep up with ESX patches, 12/10/07 An increasingly large number of patches are being issued for VMware's ESX Server, and system administrators could be struggling to keep up, so says a virtualization blog site Virtualization.info. Oops! Skype forgets to tell users of bug or patch job, 12/10/07 Skype Monday blamed an "unintentional communication oversight" for not notifying users a month ago that it had patched the Windows version of its VoIP client software against a critical bug. iPhone gains secure VPN solution, 12/11/07 Astaro Corporation is offering iPhone support to VPNs controlled by its Astaro Security Gateway appliance. Best practices for avoiding IPsec VPN blackout Cisco Subnet blogger Mark Lewis gives recommendations for preventing IPsec VPN failures. | 
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