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Wireless Security: Guess Whos Listening. Forbes May 22 2001 10:26PM ET
Recently, two hackers using standard wireless products accessed e-mail and files from Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW – news – people) while sitting in the company’s parking lot. And at a federal agency, information sent wirelessly was intercepted and then used against the agency in a future negotiation.
Security issues at forefront of ASP deployments. IDG May 22 2001 7:09PM ET [via Moreover Computer security news]
New article in Microsoft focus area:
Hardening Windows 2000, Part One: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
[Security Focus]
Knock out the new trinoo virus. IDG May 21 2001 2:42PM ET [Computer security news]
Getting rid of spyware. IDG May 21 2001 10:59AM ET
UKey:
UKey is the USB token with smart card functionality. The size of a house key, UKey provides two factor authentication, digital certificate storage, encryption, custom web access control solutions, and secure storage of passwords or other digital information.
[via Security Focus]
Ten O’Clock Tech:
Hard Drive On A Keychain,
Key Chain Computing
[Forbes]
Win2k SP2 finally out, but problems with security hotfixes?. And hibernation on some notebooks [The Register]
Business Week: Picture This: A Password You Never Forget. It’s one of several applications that rely on graphical images for the purpose of authentication. All of these graphical solutions are built on the premise that the brain remembers images more easily than letters or numbers. [Tomalak’s Realm]
InfoWorld: New worm spreads disguised as virus warning [Security Focus]
The worm, called VBS.Hard.A@mm, shows up in users’ inboxes disguised as a virus alert from anti-virus firm Symantec, the company said in a virus alert. With a subject line reading “FW: Symantec Anti-Virus Warning” and an attachment bearing the name “www.symantec.com.vbs,” the relatively innocuous worm, like many other recent worms, is written in Microsoft’s Visual Basic Script (VBS) and propagates through the company’s Outlook Express e-mail client. The e-mail carrying the worm is sent by “F. Jones,” who the e-mail identifies as a Symantec senior developer.
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