Check Point VPN-1 supports the L2TP client embedded in all current and future iPhone versions, giving customers immediate IPsec VPN access to corporate servers.
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=6182
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New Payment Card Industry compliance solution
Key SecureTrack Benefits for PCI-DSS Compliance: Continuous change tracking and analysis – ensuring all aspects of network and data security is inherent to the PCI standard.
Powerful security policy simulation and risk analysis – policy simulation is a key part of the PCI requirement to test security systems and processes regularly.
With SecureTrack’s Policy Analysis, managers can identify potential threats to cardholder data security and eliminate them before any damage can occur.
Periodic Auditing and Reports – intuitive, packaged reports for PCI-DSS compliance can be quickly customized to meet the specific requirements of every organization.
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=6186
New Google Service Helps Infected Websites Clean Up
“Attackers often use sophisticated obfuscation techniques or inject malicious payloads only under certain conditions,” Provos wrote in the Google security blog.
This new resource should help website owners in cleaning and securing their sites faster, which will help protect even more internet users,” Stopbadware.org’s Erica George wrote in the organization’s blog yesterday.
Provos says the diagnostics page provides the current listing status of a site, as well as whether the site or some of its pages had been listed by Google in the past as dangerous.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=154607&f_src=darkreading_section_296
Apple releases Mac OS X security guide
The manual includes an overview of the Mac OS X’s security architecture and advice on hardening the operating system against external attackers as well as locking down the system to protect against unauthorized access by people with physical access to the system.
“Certain instructions in the guides are complex, and deviation could result in serious adverse effects on the computer and its security,” Apple said in an introduction to the Security Configuration Guides.
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/747?ref=rss
Cyber crime on the rise in Canada
ยท 86 percent of respondents indicate that cyber crime has become a concern.
To help stem the tide, the survey recommends that a national cyber crime center be established where law enforcement and other agencies can work together to combat the problem.
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=364&id=15726
Organizations deal with a broad range of security threats
The survey of more than 2,000 individuals found that viruses and worms, cited by 54 percent of respondents, and spyware, selected by 51 percent, continue to be the top two information security threats organizations face today.
Nearly three-quarters of respondents surveyed (71 percent) said their organizations allow mobile and remote employees to access data and networks, yet relatively few have implemented security awareness training tailored specifically for the mobile and remote workforce.
Yet among organizations that have implemented such training for remote and mobile employees, 92 percent of respondents believe that the number of major security breaches has been reduced.
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=6148