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“As more companies deploy Mac systems running on the Intel platform in mixed environments, the risk of infection will most likely increase,” said Eric Winsborrow, McAfee’s vice president of marketing, in a statement. To bolster that take, McAfee on Thursday released a report that outlined a 228 percent increase in the number of Macintosh vulnerabilities from 2003 to 2005. Even so, the number of Mac-targeting viruses since 1987 — just 76 — is dwarfed by 160,000+ aimed at Windows during the same period.

Still, McAfee believed the alarm should be sounded. “The availability of Mac exploit code on the Internet makes it an open target for the same types of malware currently plaguing the Windows world,” Winsborrow claimed.

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An application program interface (API) is provided to enable third-parties to integrate the solution with their tape management systems. This enables organizations to select the level of encryption that is appropriate for each data set, with the option of not encrypting some data at all. In symmetric cryptography the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt the data, while in asymmetric cryptography a public and private key are used.

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Meru Networks is targeting enterprise wireless deployments with its Wireless Backbone System and announcing its latest round of funding, while Trapeze Networks is launching new network access control features and demonstrating new Wi-Fi/cellular convergence. “For the channel, it’s not a sale of a small number of access points and controllers but [it] becomes an opportunity to provide an end-to-end wireless infrastructure,” said Ihab Abu-Hakima, president and CEO of Meru, Sunnyvale, Calif. The Radio Switch attached to the core switch then communicate wirelessly to other Radio Switches on the network, which in turn connect wirelessly to Meru Access Points. The company this week also is disclosing that it has secured its fourth round of funding, with a $25 million investment led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners.

Aruba Networks, meanwhile, is teaming with AirMagnet to incorporate troubleshooting tools into its WLAN platform, and wireless telephony vendor SpectraLink is demonstrating interoperability between its handsets and WLAN products from Meru and the Asterisk open-source VoIP platform. Enterprise adoption of voice over WLAN is gaining strong traction, said Geri Mitchell-Brown, Wi-Fi stragist at the Boulder, Colo.-based company.

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Kounestsov said, “The operator recognizes the importance of this technology, and works with us to provide it.

With McAfee VirusScan Mobile, they’ve taken it to other platforms and shipped it as an aftermarket solution; maintaining the same core technology to provide security functionality to the network operator and the enterprise. And while you can conceptually compare it to anti-virus or anti-spyware and all sorts of anti-malware for the desktop, the intent is to give operator or enterprise – not necessarily the end user – full control of what’s happening on the device.

AVERT Labs predicted a huge increase in mobile threats; up to about 726 from 226 from 2005. McAfee predicted that the damage caused by new mobile threats is likely to be more extensive than those caused by today’s PC threats because of the large volume of smartphones and the small percentage that are protected by mobile security. For example, in 2004, the ‘I Love You’ virus penetrated tens of millions of PCs in just a couple of hours despite the fact that half of all PCs had Internet security software installed.

By comparison, a mobile threat targeting several operating systems could infect up to 200 million connected smartphones simultaneously because the majority of these devices don’t include anti-virus protection.

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On the operating system front, e-Security had already created collectors for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 and the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) systems management console; Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Sun Microsystems Solaris and Trusted Solaris (an ultra-secure variant of Solaris); IBM AIX and OS/400; Hewlett-Packard HP-UX.

A few months after Novell bough Immunix, it took the AppArmor security appliance software that Immunix had created and not only began the task of embedding it into SUSE Linux, but also released the AppArmor code as an open source project as a means to help create the thousands of application profiles that the AppArmor software requires.

Sales and engineering for the Sentinel product will remain in Vienna, but the company will be rolled into Novell’s system security and identity management unit, which includes the AppArmor, ZENworks, and Novell Identity Manager products.

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PassMark, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides so-called two-factor authentication for conducting transactions over the Internet. PassMark’s technology is designed to guarantee the identity of a person who visits a Web site, based on his or her password and the type of device used.

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