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calfordseaden cuts security administration time by 99 percent with Sophos email appliance
Sophos has announced that construction and property consultancy, calfordseaden, has selected Sophos Enterprise Security and Control to protect entry points, end user machines and servers on the organization's network.
Sophos’s ES1000 email appliance will protect calfordseaden’s gateway from email-borne threats, spam, phishing and data leakage, while the WS1000 web appliance will defend the network against web attacks.
The organization, which provides a range of professional services to th... [more]
Posted on 29/08/2008 in
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RF Barrier proactively defends wireless networks against eavesdroppers
Meru Networks has introduced RF Barrier™, the first IEEE 802.11-based technology for proactively defending wireless networks against eavesdroppers and "parking lot" attackers, who attempt to record and observe network traffic from outside a building's perimeter in order to steal sensitive and valuable information.
RF Barrier uses wireless LAN technology to block the radio-frequency (RF) signals from the corporate network as they exit the building, without disrupting internal WLAN operation. ... [more]
Posted on 29/08/2008 in
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Encryption isn't enough to keep data safe on stolen laptops
Laptops are easily mislaid. Most of these laptops had security precautions such as passwords and encryption in place. The fact is that this level of security is not enough.
It is the data on a laptop that is valuable, and so therefore, being able to keep this safe and out of the wrong hands is of the utmost importance.
William Pound, VP International Operations, Absolute Software, commented: "The lack of security precautions taken to secure important data is shocking. There needs to be ac... [more]
Posted on 28/08/2008 in
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90% of loss of assets incidents are from staff that have privileged access
A few days ago I became the innocent victim of a “blended threat” attack when a Volkswagen Golf and a Hyundai Getz joined together and rammed my two week old car sitting in front of my house.
Of course as with all blended attacks it was impossible to foresee that an idiot in the Golf would drive at 70 Mph in a 30 zone and that my neighbour would decide to turn right into her driveway just in front of him with the result that they would blend together and target my car. And before you all sta... [more]
Posted on 28/08/2008 in
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Hackers try to infect computers by claiming that the USA has invaded Iran
Sophos is warning of an attempt by hackers to infect computers using the camouflage of a news report claiming that the USA has invaded Iran.
Widely spammed out emails with subject lines including "Third World War has begun", "20000 US Soldiers in Iran", and "US Army crossed Iran's borders" have been intercepted by Sophos. The emails contain links to a malicious webpage that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion with the following text ben... [more]
Posted on 27/08/2008 in
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