One in three of the UK’s biggest companies has suffered hacking attempts on their websites in the last year, a government-sponsored survey has revealed. According to the 2004 Department of Trade and Industry biennial Information Security Breaches Survey, conducted by a consortium led by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), four per cent of…
Month: March 2004
AT&T intrusion alerting and firewall services help thwart cybersecurity attacks
AT&T has introduced two new security services, AT&T Internet Protect and AT&T Personal Firewall, to give businesses and government agencies worldwide some of the most powerful weapons available to date in their ever-increasing battle against cyber security attacks.
Symantec Report Bares Internet Threats
While the number of vulnerabilities found in software essentially has plateaued, the flaws are increasingly easy to exploit and, more often than not, quite severe, according to a new report.
Report: Rise in virus attacks costs firms dearly
The Computer Virus Prevalence Survey found that last year, almost a third of the hundreds of businesses polled worldwide had suffered a virus “disaster,” defined as 25 or more computers infected by a single virus in the same incident.
The report was released on Friday by the ICSA Labs subsidiary of security firm TruSecure. The survey polled 300 randomly selected companies and found that 92 had had major virus incidents in 2003, up from 80 in the year before. Almost all of the companies surveyed said that at least 90 percent of their desktops have antivirus protection, but still a third of the companies suffered virus disasters.
The servers had to be taken down for an average of 17 hours as a result, the report said.
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Symantec to launch network gatekeeper
Each product in the Gateway Security 300 Series will include six integrated security functions, along with an option for a secure wireless access point for LANs (local area networks), according to Symantec.
The devices integrate firewall, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, antivirus policy enforcement, content-filtering and VPN capabilities.
They are designed to analyze information packets and their destinations, to block malicious packets, to monitor computers for viruses, and to automatically update Symantec antivirus software.
Each appliance also includes an automatic-dial back-up feature, designed to ensure that a company’s Internet connection isn’t lost if a main broadband connection falters.
The products will hit the market in late April, with a starting price of about $400 for the low-end models, such as the Gateway Security 320, which can accommodate roughly 50 users, according to Symantec.
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Microsoft Reissues Office XP Fix
As Microsoft continues to release a torrent of bulletins and fixes for Office XP and Office 2003, IT administrators and service providers that run customer networks are looking forward to Microsoft’s upgraded Software Update Services 2.0 (SUS 2.0) patch-management solution, which extends support for patches beyond Windows to Office and other applications.
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