Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Wireless security vendors used last week's conference here to showcase both the problems and solutions in controlling access to wireless voice and data.AirTight Networks launched SpectraGuard Online, touted as wireless security's first manifestation of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that more vendors -- and a few cyber criminals -- are using. In ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 With JJ blogging about 802.1x, I thought it would be timely to talk about why I think small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) do not and probably never will deploy 802.1x for wired networks.I make a point of meeting with customers whenever I can. Amongst the small and medium ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Sqlninja is a tool targeted to exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web application that uses Microsoft SQL Server as its back-end. Its main goal is to provide a remote shell on the vulnerable DB server, even in a very hostile environment. It should be used by penetration testers to ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008 Security issues are on the minds of all CIOs these days. Whether the CIO of a 1,300-student liberal-arts college or that of a 13,000-employee Fortune 100 company, never before has the issue of data security been more important. Besides a record-breaking year of data breaches, legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008 SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organizations, backing this with a new study of corporate end-users and IT executives.
The study found that 77% corporate end-users surveyed have admitted to using personal flash drives for work-related ...
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