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Symantec Offers Public Beta of Norton 2009

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009, incorporating numerous performance improvements, are now available as public betas.

Source(s): PC World

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Vendors Warn of Microsoft Word Zero-Day Flaw

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft is echoing warnings from Symantec about an unpatched vulnerability in Word that has become the subject of targeted attacks.

Source(s): SearchSecurity.com, The Register

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Google Releases App Security Assessment Tool To Open Source

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google has released the code to its Ratproxy application security assessment tool to the open-source community, giving developers a new way to inspect their Web apps.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Microsoft Issues Security Workarounds for Access Ahead of Patch Tuesday

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

On the eve of what most are considering to be a low-key Patch Tuesday, Microsoft separately issued a workaround for an ActiveX vulnerability within its Access database program.

Source(s): The Register, Redmond

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Insider Security Threats Double in Past Year

Thursday, July 3, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Security breaches due to insider action have more than doubled since 2007, according to a new report. One organization is working on an insider risk assessment service.

Source(s): DarkReading

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Microsoft Beefs Up Security For IE 8 Beta 2

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

When Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 debuts next month, it will include a raft of new or upgraded security features designed to safeguard against malware, phishing and scripting attacks.

Source(s): CNET News.com, InformationWeek

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Apple Patches 25 Mac OS Security Flaws

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Apple has patched 25 security vulnerabilities, more than half of which involved open-source code, in its Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5) operating systems.

Source(s): Macworld, Computerworld

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Dell Introduces Laptop Security Service

Monday, June 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Dell introduced Dell ProSupport Mobility Services to help companies track lost laptops, remotely delete sensitive information if necessary, and recover information from damaged computers.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, Dell press release

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PC Tools Launches iAntiVirus for Macs

Monday, June 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

PC utility and security vendor PC Tools introduced iAntiVirus, a Mac-specific anti-malware application.

Source(s): Macworld

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Symantec Upgrades DLP Security Software

Friday, June 27, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Symantec aims to simplify content discovery with an upgraded version of its Vontu Data Loss Prevention software suite.

Source(s): eWeek

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Google Resolves App Engine Glitch; Unveils Pricing Plan For Web Site Optimizer

Friday, June 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Those who advocate the benefits of cloud computing should take comfort in knowing the flaw that brought down Google's Web application hosting service on Tuesday has been fixed, the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company said.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Houses Passes Revamped Spy Bill

Friday, June 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that overhauls the nation's wiretapping laws, and the same is expected to happen next week when it reaches the Senate.

Source(s): The Washington Post, Reuters

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Apple Patches Safari for Windows Users

Friday, June 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Apple has released a new Windows version of Safari that patches four vulnerabilities, including one that had Microsoft telling its customers to not use the browser.

Source(s): Computerworld

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Trend Micro to Entrust Security to the Cloud

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Trend Micro will start relying more on analyzing malware in the cloud rather than on the desktop, resulting it quicker identification of new threats.

Source(s): NetworkWorld, CNET News

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Verizon Study Calls 90% of Data Breaches Preventable

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

A "2008 Data Breach Investigations Report" from Verizon Business finds that nearly nine out of ten business data breaches could have been prevented through reasonable security measures.

Source(s): Yahoo Finance

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PGP Brings Government-Approved Security to Mac OS X

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Data encryption specialist PGP announced an update to its Whole Disk Encryption product that brings same level of functionality and security to Macintoshes as the product already provides to Windows.

Source(s): InternetNews, ChannelWeb

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Safari, IE Bugs Pose Serious Blended Threat to Windows Users

Monday, June 2, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft is warning Windows Vista and XP users of a blended threat involving Apple's Safari browser and its Internet Explorer browser.

Source(s): InfoWorld

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Apple Releases Security Update, Fixes iCal Vulnerability

Friday, May 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Apple has released a 74MB security patch for Tiger and Leopard, addressing more than 40 security issues including the recently publicized iCal vulnerability.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Cisco Patches Three Security Vulnerabilities

Thursday, May 22, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Cisco has released a trio security patches that fix denial-of-service bugs and a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Source(s): Network World, ChannelWeb

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Security Report: Few Breaches Have Malicious Intent

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Further evidence that every cloud has a silver lining: According to a new CompTIA study of 2007 IT security trends, three out of every four severe data breaches that companies experienced were not the result of purposeful action.

Source(s): Dark Reading

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RSA Boosts BlackBerry Security With Two-Factor Authentication

Friday, May 16, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

EMC division RSA has introduced two-factor authentication and identity assurance for the BlackBerry, opening the doors for new conversations about mobile strategies for the midtier and branch offices.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Check Point Offers Virtualized Browser Security

Thursday, May 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Check Point Software Technologies has released ZoneAlarm ForceField, a virtualized browser security solution that the company claims offers seven levels of security.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, internetnews

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Vista Security: Better Than XP, Worse Than Win 2000

Friday, May 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

According to research by security vendor PC Tools Software, Vista is 37 percent less susceptible to malware than Windows XP but is more vulnerable than Windows 2000.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Google Launches Business Security Service

Thursday, May 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google has announced Web Security for Enterprise, a subscription service intended to protect businesses and other organizations against malware attacks.

Source(s): Computerworld

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Yahoo, McAfee Team For Safer Searching

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Yahoo and McAfee have announced an exclusive partnership under which potentially unsafe Web sites appearing in Yahoo's search results will be flagged with a red exclamation point and warning text.

Source(s): PC Pro, CNET News

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Fujitsu Adds Encryption to Laptop Hard Drives

Monday, April 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Fujitsu America announced a series of hard disks for business notebooks with hardware-based disk encryption, reducing the security risk of lost computers.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, CNET News

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SanDisk Reveals Flash Drive Threat, Offers Solution

Friday, April 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Memory card vendor SanDisk has released the results of a survey showing that businesses have little idea of how much company data is stored on personal flash drives that can easily be lost or stolen.

Source(s): The Inquirer, The Register

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Microsoft Goes Beta With Stirling Security Platform

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft has gone public with a beta of Stirling, its next-gen Forefront security platform that aims to simplify security across an organization's infrastructure.

Source(s): VNUnet, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Symantec Tallies More Than 1 Million Malware Threats; Legitimate Sites New Transmission Vector

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from security vendor Symantec, the number of new malicious code threats rose sharply last year, topping the number of legitimate applications for the first time.

Source(s): Computerworld, The Register

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Outsourced Application Code Tied to Increased Hacking Risk

Monday, April 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

According to a report from research and analysis firm Quocirca, 90 percent of the companies that are victims of hacking outsource more than 40 percent of their software development.

Source(s): The Register, ITPro

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