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• Hacker faces plane ride to US court
  McKinnon's appeal rejected by European Court.
• 'Office on a stick' offers remote security
  Keeping home workers safe.
• Malware hits outer space
  Space station under worm attack.
• Best Western claims customer hack was tiny
  Was it 8 million people or only 10 Germans?
• ZoneAlarm 8.0 gets identity theft makeover
  Combats new wave of security threats.
• Lexar releases 16GB encrypted flash drive
  No more government red faces.
• University offers fix for Firefox SSL-certificate warnings
  No more 'man-in-middle' attacks.
• Novell's iPrint vulnerable to attack
  ActiveX found out, again.

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• Too much network control is a bad thing
  Network admins with too much control are a common problem - and one that needs fixing, CIOs warn.
• CAPTCHA security - more worthless by the day
  CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work.
• Spotting weak security staff
  Are your security staffers are trustworthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Ask a security professional for horror stories and you might think again.

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• Ten tips for ultra-safe browsing
  In the world of comic books, every bad guy is an evil genius. On the web, hackers, spammers, and phishers may be evil, but they're not required to be geniuses. Here are ten ways to defend yourself against them, genius or not.
• Secure your laptop from thieves
  Laptops increase the risks to your data, but there are sensible steps to take which minimise the danger.
• Taking the Cisco route to a VPN
  Building a VPN with Cisco ASA gear.

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• Putting Enterprise SOA to Work
  

  Examine the implementation experience of three firms who have succeeded with enterprise SOA. Read examples that demonstrate SAP's support for enterprise SOA and those that show how quickly you can get started on the path to creating innovative and flexible software solutions for your business.

• Audio Electronics and the "Mobile Phone Buzz"
  

  Redefining the standard for voice conferencing solutions by eliminating conference call “buzz”

• AMR Research: Enterprise Architecture Techniques for SAP Customers
  

  Enterprise architecture has rapidly matured in recent years as a business-driven technique to provide companies with the big picture needed to optimise long-term IT investments. Find out how some of the leading SAP customers have been quietly deploying enterprise architecture techniques to transform their business and prepare for SOA.

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• Problems with monitoring virtual infrastructure
  Questions about how to monitor VMware ESX installations are common on community forums, but the term "monitoring" covers so much ground and could involve so many tools that the question requires a lot of refinement.
• Dealing with video surveillance on the LAN
  Smile: You're now responsible for cameras.
• Plotting the future of network security
  Keeping up with it could be a challenge, as it becomes richer and more sophisticated.

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	Windows Security Articles     Updated: Thursday 28 August 16:23 UK WinINSTALL - Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - Patch Management WinINSTALL was selected the winner in the Patch Management category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. GFI Languard NSS and Shavlik NetChk Protect were first runner-up and second runner-up. Using Group Policy Filtering to Create a NAP DHCP Enforcement Policy (Part 2) How to use the NAP policy wizard to automatically create the Network, Health and Connection policies that will be used to control access to the network. Installing and Using the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Vista Windows Vista now has a new toolset for managing a Windows Server 2008 enterprise. Once you follow the steps, you will be able to administer all of the new features of Windows Server 2008. Using Group Policy Filtering to Create a NAP DHCP Enforcement Policy (Part 1) How to implement Group Policy to control DHCP Network Access Policy enforcement. This improves the level of granularity you can apply to DHCP enforcement for NAP clients. Securing your OCS deployment Taking a look at the security concerns involved with unified communications and how to add security to OCS. More »

• Blame the IT mandarins, not the government New
  
• Chip and PIN, the success nobody loves 
  
• The Race to Zero tells us, er, what? 
  Hacking as sport.

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• Billion BiPAC 7402GX router
  Billion's latest BiPAC ADSL router is an attempt to add 3G failover to what is otherwise a competent and well-featured if unadventurous 802.11g switch/router. Its other strength is its VPN capability.
• DrayTek Vigor 2820Vn router
  A remote office or small office router with ADSL, WAN and 3G failover that doesn't cost the earth? Not possible they said. DrayTek's latest Vigor can do all this and more.
• SanDisk Cruzer Professional
  Where did it go wrong for the once inoffensive USB memory stick? A new generation of drives using mandatory encryption attempt to make them loved once more.
• PortTracker
  A useful appliance that allows you to monitor what is - and has been - connected to your network, as long as you're running Cisco switches.
• ClearMyMail spam filtering
  Anti-spam software doesn't have a great reputation. A new approach is to run the whole thing as a service, taking the hassle away from the user. But is it really that simple?

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• Security's virtual badlands
  We hear from Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch why virtualisation is still Terra Incognita for network security technologists - and why he believes his company is worth more its rivals and the stock market seem to think.
• How a laptop nearly ruined one man's life
  When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography on to the laptop.
• Why the Vista hacker went to eBay
  When Shane Macaulay tried to sell the Fujitsu U810 laptop he won in a hacking contest last week, it seemed almost like an April Fool's joke.

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• UTM's weakness: a single point of failure
  The team had a wealth of options. They could have chosen to install one or more UTM appliances, devices that handle multiple threats from a single chassis, or opted for a series of single function, best of breed appliances. So, which one was it to be?
• Protecting the datacentre
  Mercy Medical Centre’s security wish list is far from atypical. The Baltimore healthcare provider wants to make sure that users access only the services and servers they require and that its datacentre servers remain secure and problem free. Nevertheless, it hasn't yet found quite the right technology combination.
• Protecting sensitive information in transit
  The City of London Police use biometric security-enabled Stealth MXP USB storage devices for sensitive information transfer, HMRC could learn from this.

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	Security Alerts   Updated: Thursday 28 August 16:25 UK [2/5] HP-UX update for Apache HP has issued an update for Apache. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [1/5] Tiger "genmsgidx" Insecure Temporary Files A security issue has been reported in Tiger, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. [2/5] Honeyd "test.sh" Insecure Temporary Files A security issue has been reported in Honeyd, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. [1/5] Ampache "gather-messages.sh" Insecure Temporary Files A security issue has been reported in Ampache, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. [2/5] Citadel "migrate_aliases.sh" Insecure Temporary Files A security issue has been discovered in Citadel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. [2/5] R "javareconf" Insecure Temporary Files A security issue has been reported in R, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed: http://secunia.com/software_inspector/ Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied * Assists you in updating your system and applications * Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required. more »

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