If you don't succeed the first seven times, try, try (and try some more) again. That seems to be the lesson Friday as Microsoft acknowledged new vulnerabilities in the Telnet code included in Windows 2000, eight months after issuing a patch that fixed seven other security holes in Windows 2000's Telnet.
Enterprise users will soon be able to buy a single product both to manage their employees' Internet usage and to operate a network firewall, thanks to a new company alliance.
Despite the vendor's claims, Oracle's Oracle9i database is breakable, a U.K. security firm has reported.
In a time when companies are rationalising and re-calibrating their IT budgets, security is one area that will not feel the blade of the cost-cutting scalpel.
In mid-January, Russian law enforcement, with help from the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrested a computer hacker who had attempted to extort US$10,000 from a U.S. bank, according to a Secret Service agent.
Schiphol Group NV, which operates the Amsterdam airport, is offering its self-service border control system with iris recognition to other airports and airlines, the company said Tuesday.
Tecksel has added security to its networking inventory, signing a distribution agreement with firewall and VPN vendor SonicWALL.
A flaw in the way Microsoft's Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 server operating systems authenticate users across domains could allow somebody with administrator privileges to extend that power to other domains, Microsoft warned yesterday.
New versions of Symantec's Enterprise Firewall and Enterprise VPN (virtual private network) products now feature support for the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), secure video-conferencing through the firewall and easier VPN deployment to its offerings, the vendor announced on Monday.
New versions of Symantec's Enterprise Firewall and Enterprise VPN (virtual private network) products now feature support for the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), secure video-conferencing through the firewall and easier VPN deployment to its offerings, the vendor announced on Monday.
Trying to make good on its company-wide effort to increase the security of its software, Microsoft on Wednesday shipped a package of its latest security fixes for users of its Windows 2000 desktop and server operating systems.
Hackers have hijacked the account details of 400,000 Optus Internet dial-up customers launching the biggest computer crime investigation undertaken by the NSW Police.
A security flaw in Netscape Communications Corp.'s Navigator Web browser can let malicious Web site operators view the information stored in cookies on a user's computer, according to a security note published on Netscape's Web site.
A new survey has found the banking and finance sector suffers more database security breaches than any other industry forcing Australia's biggest players to beef up security practices.
Sony is urging customers who have bought Vaio computers since November to upgrade their software after the discovery of a potentially serious software bug that could allow intruders access to their computers. The security advisory applies to customers in much of Asia and some Middle East and African countries.
ASX-listed managed security services provider eSec has placed a bid to acquire Intelligent Technology Linux and its subsidiary Software Vision Consultants (SVC) for $685,000.
With IT security a hot ticket item, one Sydney distributor is offering resellers the ability to scan their customers' networks for potential security flaws at a fraction of the cost of doing it themselves.
A new data-recovery technique could help trace suspicious financial transactions made shortly before the terrorist attacks in the US on Septembr 11.
To say that 2001 was a turbulent year for the IT industry would be an understatement. IT managers battled incoming viruses on one front while fighting corporate budget-cutters on another. The promise of the Internet economy went down along with the promise of a new Internet society, as all but a few dot-coms fizzled while corporate interests and governments stomped on information-sharing and privacy rights online. Here, in no particular order, are the stories that shaped our industry in 2001.
Four Israeli secondary-school students have admitted to creating the "Goner" e-mail worm, which started spreading rapidly last week.
