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eBay Security Officer Leaves for Hardware Startup

Howard Schmidt, perhaps the United States most visible chief security officer, has left online auction house eBay Inc. and is donning the jersey of...

Symantec Patches ICMP Denial-of-Service Flaw

Symantec late Monday became the latest vendor to ship a batch of enterprise-facing product upgrades to protect against a known vulnerability in a widely...

When it Comes to Data, Less is Better

Polo Ralph Lauren loses the personal information of 180,000 HSBC North America customers. DSW Shoe Warehouse discovers credit card and check data on 1.4...

Privacy Experts Scoff at Governments Plans to Secure E-Passports

Security experts and civil libertarians reacted with skepticism to the governments recent decision to reconsider data protection measures for new RFID passports. The "e-passports,"...

DNS Attacks Expose Key Flaws

The steady rise in phishing attacks in the last year, coupled with increasingly sophisticated scams such as "pharming" attacks, is driving interest in technology...

Ciscos NAC Leads Network Security Space

Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and the Trusted Computing Group have big plans for their competing client integrity architectures, but while the TCG and...

Auditing IRS Security

Walk around the elephant of the Internal Revenue Service, and like the six blind men of the fable, youll find a menagerie of beasts....

Windows Patch Management Still a Work in Progress

Its good to see that Microsoft has beefed up its infrastructure for managing Windows patching. However, the functionality that WSUS still cant provide—namely, patching...

Microsoft Puts IE Enhancements on Fast Track

"Longhorn" wont make its first appearance until the end of next year at the earliest, but with enterprises demanding better security tools, Microsoft Corp....

HFNetChkPro 5 Plus Catches Up with Rivals

Shavlik Technologies LLCs HFNetChkPro 5 Plus features several long-overdue improvements for large networks and remains one of the easiest-to-use patch management packages eWEEK Labs...