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The image of data theft for most people is a clever hacker sitting in a dark basement plotting ingenious ways around cyber security. More recently, the popular imagination has switched to organized crime syndicates operating out of shadowy Russian networks.
There is another image, however: Actually making off with servers. That’s what happened to former Genesis […]

Virtual Private Networks are mainstays of remote security. Great efforts must be made to enable VPNs to accommodate increasingly demanding real-time IP-based applications.
This week, NetMotion Wireless said version 8 of its Mobility XE VPN, which is designed for Windows, now supports VoIP. TechWorld reports that packet-loss recovery, compression and othe techniques enable the VPN to […]

It’s almost possible to feel sorry for security professionals. They’ve spent years putting systems in place to protect businesses. They’ve hardened the perimeter and made sure data was centralized and safe at the core of the network. They’ve begged people to be careful with their mobile devices.
Now, with mobility and Web 2.0, all that has […]

The logic of whitelisting is inescapable: Instead of trying – often in vain – to identify and deny entry to the many bad apples out there, why not simply bar the door to everyone except those who have proven that they deserve admittance?

This CNET piece, which quotes a depressing Symantec figure that 65 percent of […]

Many security professionals are concerned that virtualization – the use of one physical machine to house two or more completely independent operating systems – is woefully insecure. The issue is that a problem impacting one of the resident virtual machines could be exported to those running “next door.”
It’s rare that a problem – known to […]