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09/24/2007 - COS is a USB token with an entire Linux operating system on it as well as a host of handy applications, including an e-mail client, the Firefox Web browser, and a PDF creator and viewer.

09/24/2007 - Do financial services firms have to encrypt customer data? Also, a computer on a stick, and a cybersecurity checklist for business managers.

09/24/2007 - If you are a wireless user, you need to know just how many tools are available to compromise wireless networks. Remote-exploit.org highlights tools such as Hotspotter, which acts like a wireless hotspot so that anyone trying to connect to a legitimate network at, say, Starbucks will attach to the attacker’s access point instead. The tools can be downloaded from the Web site along with detailed tutorials—in some cases, step-by-step Flash presentations that walk users through programs that break wireless encryption protocols or that can crack passwords. The need for information on how wireless networks can be vulnerable makes Remote-exploit.org A Site to See. @ Get there via SM Online.

09/24/2007 - With the hurricane season underway—and with memories of last year’s catastrophes still fresh in mind—businesses in areas that are likely to be affected by summer storms are doing whatever they can to secure their premises from damage or destruction. But what about digital assets? The Florida Chamber of Commerce is helping Florida businesses to ensure that their e-mail traffic keeps flowing throughout hurricane season, even if flood waters shut down mail servers. The Digital Disaster Preparedness service is being offered for free by AppRiver, LLC, a Gulf Breeze, Florida-based company that provides e-mail security services. The company will monitor the mail servers of Florida companies that have an Internet domain name and have signed up for the service via the Florida Chamber of Commerce or App River Web sites. If bad weather hits and a company’s mail server goes down, AppRiver will reroute incoming messages to its own data centers in Texas, Virginia, and England until the damaged servers are back up, or until the company asks the mail to be redirected (messages can be made available online if requested). Spam and virus filtering are included. The free service runs through October 31. @ Point your browser to SM Onilne to link to these two sites, where you can sign up for the Digital Disaster Preparedness service if your company is based in florida.www.appriver.com www.floridachamber.com

09/21/2007 - Most bank robbers wear a mask or otherwise attempt to disguise themselves when they carry out their robberies. Likewise, online miscreants are eager to put on another persona when they launch attacks or send spam.

09/21/2007 - E-mail messages from the fourth quarter of 2005 believed to be spam

09/21/2007 - Software that’s built into the drive provides encryption, an e-wallet function for storing credit card numbers, and single sign-on to applications and Web sites. Data is encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption. A 4-to-40-character password is optional.

09/21/2007 - Security and outsourcing, cell-phone risk, e-mail worms, and what’s new in secure portable data devices.

09/21/2007 - Security and outsourcing, cell-phone risk, e-mail worms, and what’s new in secure portable data devices.

09/21/2007 - Unlike the bricks-and-mortar world, where you can lower your risk of becoming a victim of crime by staying out of dangerous neighborhoods, digital threats are fairly equally dispersed. Crimeware can—and probably does—arrive several times a day into your e-mail’s inbox, and an unpatched computer can pick up a “drive-by” infection simply by visiting an infected site. If you want to learn more about online fraud and crimeware, visit a new Web site from Symantec that offers detailed explanations of well-known as well as nascent threats. It also includes prevention tips and advice about what to do if you are victimized. There are even some demonstrations of phishing, pharming, and Trojan horses, as well as some quizzes that will let you test your knowledge of the online threatscape. The rich resources and explanations make it A Site to See.

09/20/2007 - Under Symantec’s system, malicious code is ranked from one to five; the higher numbers—what Turner calls “bell-ringing alarm threats”—represent the threats that cause much immediate damage and are difficult to contain because they are widely distributed. “We’ve only seen six category-three worms in 2005,” Turner says, referring to the most recent statistics compiled in the report, “whereas in 2004 we saw 32.”

09/20/2007 - SSL traffic is all but invisible to an enterprise, according to a survey of 319 IT security and networking professionals by Blue Coat Systems. More than 72 percent said they had no way to look inside SSL traffic, a situation that nearly 90 percent of the respondents said was risky, particularly as it can pass through firewalls unseen and untouched.

09/20/2007 - Every document file (for example, those such as .doc, .txt, .xls, and so on) could be sucked off your computer’s hard drive and onto an iPod in under two minutes, according to Abe Usher of Sharp Ideas, LLC, who created a proof-of-concept application to do just that.