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McAfee, Wave Systems Target Data Protection for Intel-based Mobile Devices McAfee and Wave Systems announced plans this week to help secure Mobile Internet Devices based on Intel's technology. McAfee is planning on extending its data security technology to laptops and mobile Internet devices. Wave Systems and McAfee made the announcements during the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. - Data protection providers McAfee and Wave Systems have their eyes on Intel-based devices this week during the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Both companies made announcements this week aimed squarely at helping customers better secure laptops and other devices. In the case of McAfee, the... Fighting Identity Theft with Analytics Security vendor Guardian Analytics is using behavioral modeling to prevent online identity theft and bank fraud. The small security vendor is entering a crowded market for authentication technologies and is banking on its ability to build models based on user behavior to predict user activity and thereby detect fraud. - Security firm Guardian Analytics is banking on behavioral modeling to beef up authentication and protect online financial transactions against fraud and identity theft. The company has extended what it calls dynamic account modeling. With its technology, now inside its recently launched FraudMAP ... Browsers And Unsigned Certificates Recent releases of browsers have users jumping through hoops to view self-signed SSL certificates. - by Larry Seltzer Read Larry Seltzer's article on The Untrustworthiness of Self-Signed Certificates. Making the Web quot;safe by default, quot; browsers are suspicious of SSL Web sites (those with a https:// prefix) that use certificates not signed by a trusted authority - VeriSign, Glob... The Untrustworthiness of Self-Signed Certificates SSL pages with self-signed certificates are less trustworthy. But does Mozilla's Firefox go overboard with this issue? Making the Web safe by default, Web browsers are suspicious of SSL Web sites (those that use an https:// prefix) that use certificates not signed by a trusted certificate authority, such as VeriSign, GlobalSign, GoDaddy or Thawte. Firefox 3 in particular makes you jump through hoops in order to view such a page. This has caused some in the Web security community to question the importance of the SSL authentication. - User interface changes in some newer browsers have gotten some in the security community riled up. The issue is self-signed certificates. Some folks don't like users being told that their roll-your-own certificates aren't as good as the non-free ones. But the fact is that they aren't as good, esp... Judge Backs Hackers in Boston Subway Dispute Three students from MIT who found a way to hack into Boston's transit system to get free rides can talk publicly about the security flaw, a judge rules Aug. 19. The MIT students raised the ire of the MBTA with a paper demonstrating how someone could work around flaws in Boston's Charlie Card automated fare system. The MIT students had planned to present the paper, which showed how anyone could take thousands of free rides on subways and buses, at the Defcon hackers conference in Las Vegas earlier in August. - BOSTON (Reuters) Three students from the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology who found a way to hack into Boston's transit system to get free rides can talk publicly about the security flaw, a court ruled on Tuesday in a decision hailed as a victory for academic freedom. The students fr... MBTA Loses Gag Order Battle Against MIT Security Researchers The MBTA's fight to quiet three MIT students who uncovered vulnerabilities in the MBTA's Charlie Card ticketing system ended Aug. 19, as a federal judge lifted the 10-day gag order imposed on the students. The students had been blocked from presenting details of their findings at the Defcon conference earlier in August in Las Vegas. But the judge's decision to lift the MBTA's gag against the MIT students does not necessarily end the controversy: There is still the MBTA's lawsuit against the MIT students. - A federal judge decided today not to extend the gag order imposed on three students to prevent them from releasing details of vulnerabilities in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ticketing system. The three students Zack Anderson, RJ Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa all hail from MIT (Ma... Is Biometrics Ready as a Security Solution for Enterprises? UPEK has partnered with Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and others to push biometric authentication and biometric device security deeper into the enterprise. Now UPEK is pushing biometrics devices and biometric security as mechanisms for online authentication. Are enterprise business customers ready to begin widespread adoption of biometric devices and biometric security technologies? - To hear some tell it, all signs are pointing to an era when biometrics will be a key element of authentication for enterprises. Just how close that era is depends on who you ask. For companies like UPEK, the time for biometrics is now. The company strategy has involved partnering with notebook ... Symantec Acquires Windows Security Vendor PC Tools Symantec has agreed to acquire PC Tools, a provider of anti-virus, anti-spyware and PC utility tools for users of Microsoft Windows. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of 2008. The acquisition brings PC Tools' computer maintenance, utility and security technologies into Symantec's consumer products. - Symantec has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PC Tools, a provider of security and utilities software for Microsoft Windows. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close by the end of 2008, were not disclosed. Headquartered in Australia, PC Tools has offices in the United Stat... Security Admins Love Social Networksï¿½They're Just Wary of Malware Social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace make security administrators nervous about malware, phishing, security threats and data leaks just not enough to stop using social networks themselves. Symantec found that 70 percent of security administrators use social networks despite concerns over data leakage, malware and productivity loss. - Most security pros like social networking sites at least that's what Symantec found in a survey of security administrators in Europe and North America. The survey was conducted earlier in 2008 and ran for about three weeks. Responses were gathered from 87 security admins belonging to organizati... Encryption Finally Goes Mainstream In this installment of the IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, PGP CEO Phil Dunkelberger talks about the difference between Windows and Macintosh security in the enterprise and the growing need to keep our data safe in a new age of targeted security attacks. - Audio Podcast Content.... Security Software Reviews Done Wrong Updated: Consumer Reports review State of the Net survey was supposed be a guide to Protect yourself online, from the biggest threats to the best solutions. Consumer Reports examined spyware, firewalls, anti-virus, Web security, phishing and identity theft, but its methods proved troublesome and vendors such as Symantec are up in arms. Security consumers should be, too. Bad information on security software coming from such a trusted source in security software reviews is doubly bad. - I don't do a lot of reviews anymore, but I spent about 13 years in the reviews business, testing a wide variety of products. A badly-done, badly-thought out review hits me like fingernails on the blackboard. So it is with the recent Consumer Reports story on computer security and accompanying review... Cyber-attacks Gaining Acceptance as Another Weapon in War The cyber-attacks launched against Georgia during the recent military clashes with Russia are just the latest in a growing escalation of security hacks targeting government computers and Web sites around the world. Estonia, Lithuania and the Pentagon were all hacked successfully in recent months. IT security researchers expect government hacks and cyber-terrorism will only increase. - Lest any of us forget the age in which we live, the cyber-attacks on Georgia this past week have highlighted that the Internet is becoming the latest weapon used in terrorism or military campaigns. During the past year or so, there have been a number of high-profile reports and accusations o... Google Says UPS, CNN E-Mail Viruses Stood Out in July Google reports that two e-mail virus spoofs, one for UPS and one for CNN, are racking the security world today. Google also said its SAAS Postini data centers are tracking the viruses and adding filters to help protect businesses' enterprise applications in the cloud. Meanwhile, the CNN virus has morphed into the MSNBC virus with similar nasty malware designs. - Google may be susceptible to serious outages for its Gmail and other Google Apps, but the company is putting the smack down on e-mail viruses. Google, no stranger to tracking the comings and goings-on around our beloved Internet, said its Postini data centers in July tallied the biggest volume of... Security Firms Warn of Hackers Spoofing CNN, MSNBC News Alerts Security hackers behind the CNN-spam campaign switched to MSNBC, sending spoofed e-mails claiming to be MSNBC news alerts in an attempt to lure victims into downloading malware. The hackers are sending about 1.5 million to 2 million spoofed MSNBC news alert messages per hour, according to security researchers at MX Logic. Security firms Sophos and MX Logic warn users to be careful about clicking on links in e-mails. - UPDATED: Hackers believed to be behind the CNN-spam campaign have changed tactics slightlyï¿½they are now using messages claiming to be from news network MSNBC. The best advice for usersï¿½be careful what you click. The spoofed MSNBC messages try to entice victims with provocative subject heads, such ... Security Researcher Asserts Russian Role in Georgia Cyber-attacks SecureWorks researcher Don Jackson bolsters the argument that the Russian government played a role in the cyber-attacks that broke out during its invasion of Georgia. Research by SecureWorks has uncovered a link between Russian state-run networks and the cyber-attacks that hit Georgia during the recent military clashes over the disputed territory of South Ossetia. - A security researcher claims to have uncovered evidence suggesting a link between the Russian government and the cyber-attacks launched against Georgia. The cyber-attacks started as Georgian and Russian military units fought over the disputed territory of South Ossetia. The fighting started ...

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