Red Hat bolsters system management tools Chicago Red Hat Wednesday released the latest version of its system management tools, the first version based on its year-old open source project Spacewalk project. Microsoft SQL Server vulnerability exposes passwords; Sentrigo offers a patch Sentrigo has posted a fix for a Microsoft SQL Server vulnerability that reveals passwords to anyone with administrative privileges. Spam's Hidden Victims: Mobile Users Spam costs organizations $712 per employee/per year, according to Nucleus Research. However, these staggering numbers don't even take into consideration one of spam's latest victims: enterprise mobile users. Spam targeted at smart phones is on the rise and becoming a growing security and productivity concern. Privacy, consumer groups want news laws to protect Web users A coalition of 10 U.S. privacy and consumer groups has called for new federal privacy protections for Web users, including a requirement that Web sites and advertising networks get opt-in permission from individuals within 24 hours of collecting personal data and tracking online habits. RSA publishes virtualization security, compliance guidelines RSA today published security and compliance recommendations for virtualization products. The guidelines focus primarily on optimizing use of management and security tools available from VMware parent company EMC and EMC's RSA security division. 3Com unifies networking and security hardware, management 3Com is kicking off a new integration of security and networking with the introduction in the U.S. of firewall/VPN gear it has sold in China for months. Making Sense of the Snow Leopard Security Debate Snow Leopard is out and users seem generally satisfied with the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system. The release hasn't been without some controversy though, part of which has been the debate over the malware protection features Apple included in Snow Leopard. Human and computer viruses are both security risks In any case there is likely to be a lot of additional employees wanting to, or needing to, work from home. Are you ready? Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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