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Virus damage tops $80bn in February

Posted on February 27, 2004December 30, 2021 by admini

With numerous variants of MyDoom, Doomjuice and NetSky causing havoc over the wires, the shortest month of the year looks set to be one of the largest in terms of virus impact. mi2g reports that 24 hours after MyDoom-F spread across the Internet the website was effectively rendered inaccessible. It also reports that sophisticated hackers are making an international effort to break into infected computers via the ports opened by MyDoom viruses.

More info: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=54319

Brainier networking gear to the rescue

Posted on February 27, 2004December 30, 2021 by admini

TurnTide, a 20-person company based in Conshohocken, Penn., is the latest to take this approach. Last week, the start-up introduced an “antispam router,” which it claims can eliminate up to 90 percent of unsolicited messages.

Unlike spam filters–which sit near e-mail servers, examining every e-mail message and quarantining those that look bad–the antispam router looks at the actual packets and determines which ones are likely to have come from a spammer. Using features inherent in the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), it can limit the amount of traffic being sent from these sources.

Ensuring quality of service and implementing security are usually done at the periphery of the network. But as networks get flooded with millions of unwanted e-mail, peer-to-peer traffic, and denial of service attacks, network operators need tools to control how much traffic comes onto their networks.

More info: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5166589.html

SEC Extends Sarbanes-Oxley Deadlines

Posted on February 27, 2004December 30, 2021 by admini

The SEC separates companies into two categories: accelerated filers and non-accelerated filers.

Accelerated filers, generally U.S. companies with equity market capitalization over $75 million that file at least one annual report with the SEC, now have until Nov. 15, 2004 to comply with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley.

Non-accelerated filers, on the other hand, now must begin to comply with Section 404 for their first fiscal years ending on or after July 15, 2005, rather than the original April 15, 2005 deadline.

The extensions weren’t unexpected, since many companies have been lobbying the SEC for later deadlines, claiming that they wouldn’t be ready to implement the required controls. The SEC, in fact, has extended deadlines for Sarbanes-Oxley before; in May 2003, it shoved back a proposed October 2003, deadline into June 2004.

More info: http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/18200989;jsessionid=TEW4AMCIOMSLEQSNDBCSKHQ

Groove Networks Announces Role In Newly Announced Homeland Security Information Network

Posted on February 26, 2004December 30, 2021 by admini

A public demonstration of the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) will occur Thursday at the AFCEA Homeland Security Conference at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.

Marking the one-year anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security, Ridge said HSIN will expand upon the Joint Regional Information Exchange System (JRIES) that includes Groove Workspace as a core component for real-time, secure, intra- and inter-agency collaboration. Last year, Groove Workspace obtained the first Department of Defense (DoD) certification for interoperability with version 2.0 of the Defense Collaboration Tool Suite (DCTS).

Ridge said HSIN will be expanded to “all 50 states, five territories, tribal governments, and 50 major urban areas” and eventually to the private sector so it can coordinate preparedness efforts with government officials.

The software provides secure communication across insecure networks, is self-synchronizing, supports on- and off-line use, and employs a “web of trust” user authentication model.

More info: http://www.groove.net/release.cfm?pagename=press_feb26_2004

Xerox Researchers Unveil New Document Management Technology

Posted on February 26, 2004December 30, 2021 by admini

The unnamed technology — Xerox refers to it as a categorizing tool — is available now, and can be licensed by enterprises that want to incorporate it into existing document systems, as well as by third-party software vendors in the document management, customer relationship management, and information retrieval markets, said Xerox.

The Xerox tool, said Eric Gaussier, a researcher at the Grenoble facility, uses a hierarchical model able to understand the dependency between multiple categories, unlike so-called “flat” search and retrieval tools which treat each category separately.

More info: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040226S0008

ISS Unveils Web Content, Spam Filtering Software

Posted on February 25, 2004December 30, 2021 by admini

The pair, both software-based, include Proventia Web Filter, a content filtering package for Web gateways, and Proventia Mail Filter, an anti-spam filtering agent also deployed at the gateway.

Web Filter relies on a database of more than 20 million Web sites and some 2.6 billion individual pages, all categorized under labels such as online shopping and erotic content. Companies use this database, and a set of customizable rules, to define what their employees can access, when they can surf to sites, and the enforcement actions taken if workers try to reach forbidden content.

Both packages are available now under Cobion’s OrangeBox brand, and will ship under ISS’s own Proventia brand name in the second quarter.

ISS also plans to wrap the new software into hardware-based appliances — its Proventia family is primarily appliance-based — in the second quarter of 2004.

More info: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040225S0007