Stories by John E. Dunn

Key management holding back encryption

Businesses are keener than ever to roll out data encryption, but are still struggling with the complexity of key management, a new survey has concluded.

Phishers hack eBay

A flaw has been discovered on eBay's website that would have allowed fraudsters to successfully redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site.

Top 20 security holes listed

The respected SANS Institute has published its latest list "top 20" list of critical Internet security vulnerabilities, which it says companies should patch immediately.

Phishing figures show rise in Trojans

The latest figures from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) offer cold comfort for anyone concerned about phishing. Although the number of attacks seems to have reached a plateau, phishing e-mails appear to be getting more sophisticated.

New Firefox patches in nick of time

In the very week Mozilla Firefox version 1.0 was launched, a series of potentially nasty security holes have been uncovered in older versions of the browser.

Super worms imminent predicts Qualys CTO

LONDON (01/30/2004) - Worms capable of carrying out simultaneous attacks across a range of operating systems or exploiting multiple vulnerabilities could arrive this year according to Gerhard Eschelbeck, the outspoken CTO of U.S. security specialist Qualys Inc.

ISS downsizes X-Force in Europe

LONDON (12/16/2003) - Four years after it was opened with some fanfare, Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) has closed its X-Force threat analysis service (XFTAS) center in Reading, U.K.

Cost of Power-over-Ethernet to fall

LONDON (11/13/2003) - It's called the 'PD64012' ASIC chip, and its announcement by PowerDsine Ltd. has boosted the chances of Power over Ethernet (PoE) becoming a standard part of the networking landscape by next year.

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