Security News

Microsoft: Secure out of the Box?
2001-12-20 06:42

http://www.theneteconomy.com/article/0,3658,s%253D908%2526a%253D20127,00.asp December 14, 2001 By: Paul Coe Clark III Howard Schmidt is chief security officer at Microsoft. He recently testified...

Certification What's hot, What's not
2001-12-20 06:32

Forwarded from: Richard Caasi http://crn.channelsupersearch.com/news/crn/30948.asp By John Roberts CRN Oct. 26, 2001 Six years ago when FishNet Security founder and CEO Gary Fish received his...

DIRT-Magic Lantern Firm Barred from Gov Work
2001-12-19 08:23

http://cryptome.org/dirty-lantern.htm [Anonymous also sent us a copy of this statement, and I would have been happy to have broken the story if it wasn't for another fine Micro$oft MTA making sure...

Mr. Schmidt goes to Washington
2001-12-19 08:12

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66708,00.html By DAN VERTON December 17, 2001 WASHINGTON -- The pending appointment by President Bush of Microsoft Corp.'s chief security...

Security hole leaves some Unix servers wide open
2001-12-17 07:27

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/194719p-1890210c.html By MATTHEW FORDAHL, Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (December 14, 2001 6:34 p.m. EST) - A recently uncovered security hole could...

FBI streamlines operations
2001-12-12 05:54

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,,NAV47_STO66417,00.html By DAN VERTON December 10, 2001 The FBI is taking steps to eliminate duplication of effort in its cybercrime investigation...

Cyber terrorism is 'fantasy'//ERRI Reply
2001-12-03 07:48

Forwarded from: C. L. Staten Cc: junkmail () barnowl com Mr. Rosenberger: While I agree that sometimes computer journalists have overblown the threat of cyberterrorism, I must also offer a simple...

RE: Cyber terrorism is 'fantasy'
2001-11-30 12:14

Forwarded from: Dan Verton From: Dan Verton, senior writer, Computerworld, and former intelligence officer Rosenberger is right on many points. This is something I have been writing about for more...

R.I.P. Cypherpunks
2001-11-30 11:21

Forwarded from: "R. A. Hettinga" ...and long live cypherpunks, of course, which, for years now, has existed on a distributed network of un-killable lists, like some feral form of Usenet, complete...

Intel patches SSD firmware and microprocessor diagnostic tool
2001-11-30 00:00

Intel has issued security updates for two of its products which enterprise and expert users will want to patch as soon as possible.