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Spending To Fend Off Online Attacks Grows In 2004

Posted on December 24, 2003December 30, 2021 by admini

The Yankee Group survey reports 54 percent of companies plan to boost their security budgets during the next three years, while only 8% say they’ll be decreasing what they spend to secure their systems.

Antivirus, intrusion-detection and -prevention systems, and firewalls will be the only security technologies in which more than half of respondents expect to increase security spending. Fewer than half of all companies will increase spending in other areas, such as access control, authentication and provisioning, personal firewalls, and digital-rights management. Fighting for scraps will be Web-application security, access control, storage security, anti-spam, authentication technology, and wireless security.

More info: [url=http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JOEK2VKIRTGHKQSNDBGCKHQ?articleId=17100139]http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JOEK2VKIRTGHKQSNDBGCKHQ?articleId=17100139[/url]

Red Hat releases Linux patches

Posted on December 23, 2003December 30, 2021 by admini

The real issue comes with the Apache Web server. It was discovered that if someone gained access to the main configuration and access-restriction files used with Apache, they could execute arbitrary code i.e. set up a denial of service attack. All users of Apache have been advised to upgrade, at the same time shutting down other holes. It affects all versions prior to 1.3.29.

Last Thursday, 13 NASA websites were defaced using Apache and Linux exploits. A Brazilian hacker group apparently used a PHP script to get to the local level of Linux through Apache and then used a known hole in the Linux kernel to get admin rights. Having got that far they then displayed their knowledge and wisdom of non-IT related matters by incoherently ranting about the Iraq war.

For those wanting to read more, or download the updates, visit: [url=http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-3898.html]http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-3898.html[/url]

Threat From Sober Variant Grows

Posted on December 22, 2003December 30, 2021 by admini

Increasing prevalence of the W32/Sober.C worm prompted Network Associates Inc. on Sunday to raise its risk assessment to medium from low.

Sober.C is most active in Germany, where e-mail security vendor MessageLabs Inc. said 83 percent of samples had originated. MessageLabs consider the risk “low,” while saying that it has intercepted a “significant number of copies” of the worm.

Symantec Corp. rated it as a level 2 threat out of five, or a low threat.

More info: [url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1420196,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1420196,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594[/url]

Novadigm Jumps Into Utility Computing Fray

Posted on December 22, 2003December 30, 2021 by admini

Among the other Radia enhancements are a series of templates for commonly used applications that allow users to systematically provision the server applications without having to learn the intricacies of each installation and configuration. The customizable templates work with The Apache Software Foundation’s Web server; Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Information Services, Active Directory and SQL Server; BEA Systems Inc.’s WebLogic; IBM WebSphere; Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Sun ONE Directory Server; and Oracle Corp. applications on Windows, Unix and Linux.

Novadigm is also extending the suite’s platform support across operating systems, blade servers and load balancers. New native operating system installers supported include Hewlett-Packard Co.’s HP-UX Ignite, Microsoft’s Automated Deployment Services and Sun’s Solaris JumpStart. Radia Server Management also supports Intel Corp.-based blade servers from IBM, HP and Dell Inc., and it is integrated with load balancers from F5 Networks Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc.

More info: [url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1419832,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 ]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1419832,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594[/url]

Interest in Online Banking Grows – Only Security could impede growth

Posted on December 22, 2003December 30, 2021 by admini

According to Jupiter Research, the number of online banking households will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent to 56 million over the next five years.

The reason for the jump is simple — more households will connect to the Internet. Once the purview of well-heeled consumers, online banking will see its strongest growth from lower and middle class households (defined in this study as those with income of $75,000 or less), which will use bank Web sites to manage credit cards and auto loans, Jupiter Research says.

Jupiter Research analysts say online banking has more to do with consumers’ choice of channel (the Internet, rather than the teller or telephone) than differences between rival banks offerings.

The report states “only possible threat” to increasing online bank usage is a security breach and concludes, “Security concerns are already a primary inhibitor of initial consumer adoption; if realized, they will be a serious drier of online attrition.”

More info: [url=http://www.internetnews.com/fina-news/article.php/3292001]http://www.internetnews.com/fina-news/article.php/3292001[/url]

US raises level of terror alert

Posted on December 21, 2003December 30, 2021 by admini

Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said the move followed a substantial increase in intelligence reports about possible threats.

Intelligence intercepts suggested that the threat now from al-Qaeda was greater than at any time since the attacks on New York and Washington, he added.

More info: [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3335595.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3335595.stm[/url]