All the week’s news and views about Security, 04/16/09

All the week’s news and views about Security, 04/16/09

Botnets: Reasons It’s Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192072

 

The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when
one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack
computers without tipping off the users.Read full story
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192072

Senior Editor Ellen Messmer covers security for Network World.
E-mail Ellen mailto:emessmer@nww.com .

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Stealthy rootkit slides further under the radar
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192073  Thousands of
Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of
malicious software that many security products may be unprepared
to handle.

Oracle delivers major security patch update
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192074  Oracle
released 43 security fixes on Tuesday for a range of
applications, including its flagship database, Oracle
Application Server, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise and
WebLogic Server.

UC security: When the shoe doesn’t fit – compress the foot
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192075  If your
security model is location-centric and depends on keeping things
separate, how do you respond to a disruptive technology like
unified communications? This is a pattern that keeps repeating
in many different areas: the security paradigm looked good until
a technology comes along, changes the assumptions and reveals
the inadequacy of the model.

CDT: Privacy, transparency needed in cybersecurity policy
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192076  U.S.
President Barack Obama’s administration and Congress will have
to address major civil liberties and transparency concerns as
they create new policies to tackle ongoing cybersecurity
vulnerabilties in the government and private industry, a digital
rights group said.

Human ear could be next biometric system
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192077  British
scientists are investigating the viability of a new biometric
technique that would make use of the human ear as a way for a
third party to identify the person they are speaking to.

Deleted Data Drives New Data Breaches
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192078  According to
a new report on data breaches from Verizon Business, cyber
criminals are no longer attacking where the credit card files
are, but where they once were.

Encrypt more data with latest SecuriKey version
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192079  When last we
heard from the folks at GT SecuriKey, the makers of the
hardware-software combo for securing laptops had just come out
with a bundle aimed at mobile Mac users who also ran Windows on
their portables via Boot Camp. Now the cross-platform data
security company is updating all of its Mac offerings, with
enhanced data encryption features in the latest version of
SecuriKey.

Top Trends: Patch Management
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal185732  Find out how
patch-management products work, and what they can do for you, in
this Product Guide.

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1. NASA takes Ethernet deeper into space
       http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192081

2. EBay to spin off Skype by mid-2010
       http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192082

3. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday filled with zero-day exploits
       http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192083

4. Fact-checking the fact-checkers: Snopes.com gets an ‘A’
       http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal192084

5. Managing IP addresses with free tools
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6. Exchange 2010: Sneak peek
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7. Breakthrough enables Terabit Ethernet
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8. 15 nifty BlackBerry apps for IT pros
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9. Exchange 2010 beta leads kickoff of new Office lineup
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