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Managed security services will be hot in 2008
Managed services will be a big channel push for some security vendors in the coming year, while some will also concentrate on developing partner-friendly products and solutions.
Dec 23, 2007 |
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Competitive lab test: Fortinet FortiMail-4000A vs. Cisco IronPort C350 e-mail security appliance
Service providers and enterprise network architects can benefit from the adoption and deployment of integrated tools that offer protection from E-mail abuse.
This Tolly Competitive Lab Test focused on anti-spam/anti-virus.
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Security Threats Plague Cyber Monday
As employees race for online bargains, they're more likely to expose their companies to hacks, worms and other breaches.More than half of America's office workers will be using their company's resources to shop online this holiday season, and the madness begins today - the day the retail industry has dubbed Cyber Monday.
Nov 26, 2007 |
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2008 Security Threats Will Follow The Money
Phishing scams, malware, data loss -- many security professionals dispute exactly what constitutes the most serious security threat.
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Always wear your seatbelt on the information superhighway
A FusePoint-sponsored survey finds executives aren't taking security seriously enough, and Fortinet is looking to help
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Seven need-to-know trends in network security
Moore’s Law, the evolution of Web 2.0 applications and virtualization are among the trends influencing the network security industry, according to unified threat management vendor Fortinet Inc.
Nov 15, 2007 |
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What's in a Trend?
Richard Stiennon is the chief marketing officer for IT security company Fortinet, but he’s also played the trend game working for analysis firm Gartner. He spoke to IT Business Out Loud’s Dave Webb in this podcast about the three types of trend analysis, how they’re used, and how to critically think about what we read and hear.
Nov 13, 2007 |
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One Solution Aims to Secure Multiple Systems
Managing IT security software and appliances isn't getting easier. Most companies operate under what seem to be ever-changing, ever-growing risks to their IT systems - whether it's denialof- service attacks choking network and application availability or a teenager from Estonia using MPack to crack their defenses.
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Phishing scam uses AOL address to target eBay users
Unknown phishers are using a widely recognized name, AOL, to disguise a false eBay sign-in site, according to the security research team at Fortinet.
Nov 12, 2007 |
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How well are we protecting ourselves?
In part two of this three-part cyber crime cover story package, Fortinet is included as author Ryan Blitstein explores what individuals and companies alike are doing to protect themselves against internet-borne threats.
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Fortinet announces security virtualization strategy
Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management solutions, has announced its strategy around providing virtualization to the security space, thanks to some recently approved patents for network inventions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Nov 6, 2007 |
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Company News
Ken Goldman has joined unified threat management provider Fortinet as its CFO. He previously served as senior VP of finance and administration and CFO of Siebel Systems from August 2000 until it was acquired by Oracle in January 2006.
Nov 1, 2007 |
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Chat Room - Anti-Threat Protection
Q&A with Karl Soderlund, Fortinet Vice President of Americas Sales and Global Alliances
Nov 2007 |
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Laptop Security: Covering the Bases
Through FortiManager, an integrated monitoring and management solution, the district receives active reporting from all laptops, regardless of whether they are on or off campus.
Nov 2007 |
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Virtualizing The Network For Fun And Profit
Forget software and hardware upgrades, the hassle of provisioning new users and the pain of taking endpoints off line for patches and system management.
Oot 29, 2007 |
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Denial-of-Rockies-Tickets Attack
Nasty hackers or just greedy ticket brokers? Either way, it's a moot point now: The Colorado Rockies sold out its World Series tickets yesterday when the team's online ticket-sales system was restored after a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) caused a server outage on its Website on Monday.
Oot 24, 2007 |
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Adobe Flaw Lets In The Phishers
Security vendors say a recently exposed vulnerability in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader applications is being exploited by a Russian phishing network spreading a fairly old Trojan virus.
Oot 23, 2007 |
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ITChannel Headlines: SAP revenue, market share rise; budgets shrink in '08?; PC sales hit two-year peak
Unified threat management (UTM) vendor Fortinet has signed agreements that will allow Ingram Micro and Tech Data to distribute all Fortinet's network security products.
Oot 18, 2007 |
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TSA Laptops With Hazmat Driver Info Stolen
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is in hot water again for losing sensitive data, and this time around it has national security implications: Two laptops were reportedly stolen from a TSA contractor that contained personal information about commercial drivers who transport hazardous materials across the U.S.
Oot 16, 2007 |
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Fortinet's Formidable FortiGate 5020
One consequence of any technology is that, over time, systems become less expensive and easier to use. This wasn't so evident in the telecom field until the divestiture ofAT&T ( News - Alert), whereupon things began to evolve rapidly.
Oot 2, 2007 |
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Peace (of Mind) in Our Time
WiFi isn’t the only wireless security challenge facing today’s universities, however. Increasingly, university technologists and administrators are discovering they also must understand how to safeguard smart phones that rely on the GSM (global system for mobile communications) standard, notes J. Keith Fowlkes, vice chancellor for information technology and CIO for The University of Virginia College at Wise.
Oot 1, 2007 |
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Wall Street Journal: Who's News
KEN GOLDMAN was appointed chief financial officer of Fortinet Inc., a provider of hardware and software solutions for information-technology security. A Who's News item Thursday incompletely described Fortinet as a software company.
Sept 29, 2007 |
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Antivirus & Security Issues
It's a story that's been told time and time again, but for good reason, antivirus and security issues are still being preached to the IT masses. Believe it or not, you still hear grumblings of small to midsized enterprises that get hit hard because their end points have no active or installed antivirus or security programs.
Sept 28, 2007 |
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Experts Flag 10 Emerging IT Security Trends
Security threats and defenses must constantly evolve to keep up with developing threats. We asked security experts to identify the top information security trends that will affect small and midsize businesses over the next three to five years.
Sept 27, 2007 |
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Cybercriminals on Your Doorstep
Cybercriminals are now even willing to go right to their victim's front door: In a new so-called "pay on delivery" scam, the bad guy poses as a delivery service, delivers a bogus package, and collects the victim's COD payment.
Sept 27, 2007 |
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Fortinet Appoints New CFO
Fortinet today announced that Ken Goldman, a seasoned and respected financial industry veteran, has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Sept 25, 2007 |
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Fortinet names Ken Goldman CFO
Fortinet Inc. on Tuesday named Ken Goldman chief financial officer.
Sept 25, 2007 |
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Fortinet Provides UTM to Cook County
Fortinet today announced that the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, IL, the second largest county by population in the United States, is using Fortinet unified threat management appliances to help protect more than 5.6 million documents ranging from employee email to citizen legal case material, adoptions, mental health, and tax objection documents.
Sept 24, 2007 |
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ABN Amro suffers p2p data breach
A former employee of Citi's ABN Amro Mortgage group leaked the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of more than 5,000 customers via a peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing network.
Sept 24, 2007 |
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Users Should Be Wary When Web Sites Ask For Too Much Info
Fortinet is warning users to ignore even legitimate sites' requests for e-mail and IM login information because handing it out is a bad habit to get into.
Sept 5, 2007 |
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Confusion 2.0: Keep a Tight Grip on Personal Data
In a report, Fortinet researchers warn that respected sites are lowering users' security defenses.
Sept 5, 2007 |
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Social engineering propels e-card virus
If you haven't done so already, perhaps it's time to remind your users about the hazards of clicking on e-mail attachments from unknown senders.
Sept 4, 2007 |
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Vendor Notebook: ANSI and Quantros partner to improve standards
Quantros, of San Francisco, and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have established a new agreement to enhance the usability of standards for quality measurement (ISO 9001:2000) and environmental management (ISO 14001:2004) by the healthcare community. The standards are now a component of Quantros' Accreditation & Compliance Excellence (ACE) application.
Sept 4, 2007 |
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Security: All in One vs. Best of Breed
In June, the FBI announced the results of an investigation it dubbed "Operation Bot Roast," and the findings were sobering.
Sept 2007 |
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Take A Crash Course In Security Risks
There's no such thing as a business too small to worry about information security; moreover, if you're big enough to network two computers and connect them to the Internet, you're big enough to have to think about protecting the network as well as the individual computers.
Aug 31, 2007 |
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South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications Selects Fortinet for Firewall and Content Filtering
Fortinet announced Tuesday that the State of South Dakota Department of Education has purchased more than 200 Fortinet security appliances. The solutions are replacing the state's previous K-12 solution to help provide firewall protection and Web content filtering for its network of more than 123,000 users, which include students, faculty and staff.
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Fortinet brings HP ProCurve to the table
Privately-held Fortinet has named ProCurve Networking by Hewlett-Packard to its global alliance partner program. This is good news for Fortinet. It should help HP, too, although the ProCurve security story is by no means complete.
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Fortinet Announces Global Alliance Partner Program
Fortinet Inc., a provider of unified threat management solutions, has announced a three-tiered Global Alliance Partner Program designed to complement its security product and service offerings for large global enterprises and service providers.
Aug 2, 2007 |
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Fortinet launches Global Alliances Partner Program
Unified threat management (UTM) vendor Fortinent has announced the launch of its three-tiered Global Alliance Partner Program, designed to help deliver Fortinet's security products to large global enterprises and service providers.
Aug 1, 2007 |
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Unified threat management market battle heats up as security developer launches partner program
Unified threat management (UTM) vendor Fortinet announced a worldwide partner program aimed at prying enterprise customers away from its main competitors.
Aug 1, 2007 |
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Fortinet Debuts Partner Program
Fortinet is rolling out a three-tiered partner program to help link solution providers with vendors whose wares are impacting increasingly complex unified threat management systems.
July 30, 2007 |
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50 Most Powerful Women in the Channel
Christine Braud, Fortinet channel director, was named one of The Powerful Women in the Channel by VARBusiness Magazine.
July 27, 2007 |
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IDC: SCM is Hot
Spam is one way hackers get into your computer, to use it as a launch pad for criminal activity.
According to research firm IDC, the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Secure Content Management (SCM) appliance market all posted double digit revenue gains in the first quarter of 2007.
July 20, 2007 |
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FBI Warns Of New Email Scams
Spam is one way hackers get into your computer, to use it as a launch pad for criminal activity.
The FBI says it's identified over a million computers taken over by bad guys, unbeknownst to their owners, and there may be millions more.
July 19, 2007 |
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Secures what ails you
Unified threat management sounds like a miracle cure. Have security problems? Just use UTM for fast relief! Supports your security seven ways!
July 2, 2007 |
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How AdvancedTCA will Revolutionize Carrier Infrastructures
Everyone has experienced the benefits of standardization. From railroad gauges, to power outlets, to systems of weights and measurements, standdarization has always led to improved efficiencies, cost saving and the benefits that come from inter-changeability.
July 2007 |
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Movers & Shakers
Fortinet has named Michael Valentine vice president of channel sales for the Americas.
June 25, 2007 |
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UTM or flexible security platform?
The unified threat management bucket is starting to show signs of age. So many products and vendors have been jammed into that bucket that you have the strange situation of hardware platform vendors sharing the same space with Frankenstein monster collections of security applications bundled into Linux platforms. It is time to rethink the actual directions that the gateway security space is taking.
June 20, 2007 |
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Suddenly Swindled: Thieves Turn To Instant Messaging
When a telecommunications equipment supplier fired an employee two years ago for stealing product information, it wasn't the act alone that proved worrisome - it was how it occurred.
June 20, 2007 |
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Microsoft Speech Hit by Serious Flaws
Microsoft's speech-control engines have been hit by major security flaws, according to researchers.
June 13, 2007 |
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Fortinet To Launch Enterprise Security Appliances
Fortinet this week is unveiling a pair of new hardware platforms designed for large enterprises and data centers.
June 12, 2007 |
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Fortinet Discovers Critical Vulnerability
Fortinet today announced that its Fortinet Global Security Research Team was key in discovering one of the latest Microsoft™ critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-2222), called the "Speech Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability," which impacts users of Microsoft Speech™.
June 12, 2007 |
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Fortinet boosts security platforms
The two new devices, the FortiGate 3810A and FortiGate 3016B, are based on fresh versions of the company's custom network processors called FortiASIC, as well as its existing FortiASIC content processor. In combination, these chips support 26Gbps firewall throughput.
June 12, 2007 |
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Fortinet Adds New Appliances
Fortinet today expanded its FortiGate™-3000 Series of multi-threat security appliances with the introduction of two new products - the FortiGate-3810A and the FortiGate-3016B - and a series of expansion modules that meet or exceed the throughput requirements of enterprise and MSSP applications.
June 11, 2007 |
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Takahashi: Organized Crime 2.0 missing from 'Sopranos'
The world of Tony Soprano is about to come to an end with Sunday's final episode of "The Sopranos." Over
seven years, the award-winning HBO TV series offered insight into the business of the modern mafia, albeit based on a fictional crime family
in New Jersey. we got glimpses of garbage contracts, sonstruction scams, protection rackets, illegal gambling, track hijacking and credit card fraud.
June 7, 2007 |
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Experts: Botnets add fault tolerance
Security experts contend that a growing number of operators of compromised computer networks (or "botnets") are finding new ways to grow their networks and make them immune to potential shutdowns, including sophisticated fault-tolerance planning to help ensure that their networks can't be easily wiped out.
June 7, 2007 |
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MessageLabs: Image spammers use non-registration websites to their advantage
Levels of image spam held steady last month at 15 to 20 percent of all junk mail, but phishing emails were at their highest levels this year, according to just-released research from MessageLabs.
June 4, 2007 |
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Security Intelligence
As it becomes clear that the new wave of information security breaches is coming by way of financially motivated, targeted attacks, IT departments must adjust their practices to meet stealthy hackers head-on.
June 1, 2007 |
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Valentine's Day Comes For Fortinet Sales VP
Mike Valentine, formerly vice president of Americas sales and channel sales at SonicWall, last week took over as vice president of Americas channels sales at Fortinet.
May 28, 2007 |
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SonicWall Channel Exec Valentine Jumps To Fortinet
Fortinet has tapped a seasoned channel hand to lead its channel program. Mike Valentine, formerly vice president of Americas sales and channel sales at SonicWall, on Tuesday took over as vice president of Americas channel sales at Fortinet, Sunnyvale, Calif.
May 7, 2007 |
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Image spam levels fluctuating, say vendors
Image spam accounted for 27 percent of all captured April spam, a 10 percent drop from March, according to the report. Spam accounted for 65 percent of all email at the SMTP layer.
May 7, 2007 |
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HOW-TO A look inside next generation Unified Threat Management--Part II
Today's UTMs are the first step on a journey from a collection of discrete security applications to a true unified barrier.
Apr 17, 2007 |
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Fortinet Finds Akamai Vulnerability
Fortinet® today announced that its Fortinet Global Threat Research Team discovered a remote buffer overflow vulnerability in Akamai Download Manager (CVE-2007-1891).
Apr 17, 2007 |
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Fortinet Joins Forces With HP ProCurve
Fortinet on Tuesday unveiled a partnership with Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve Networking division that highlights the growing integration of networking and security technologies.
Apr 17, 2007 |
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Scenario: Installing and supporting a VPN
Setting up a VPN (virtual private network) is the new age equivalent of choosing your company's physical security systems.
Apr 16, 2007 |
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UTM: Ten Questions Before you Buy
The notion of combining the various security devices to protect your network isn't new, but lately the market has become more competitive with the entry of CheckPoint Software's UTM-1 product.
Apr 13, 2007 |
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Designing network security: Inside Unified Threat Management
This article looks at the broad issues of Unified Threat Management. Part I concentrates on what several companies, from large enterprise and service provider down to SMBs, are doing to design in a consolidated security platform.
Apr 10, 2007 |
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Experts say Microsoft should consider change in patching process
Several security experts criticized Microsoft this week for not releasing a fix earlier for the Windows ANI flaw, calling for the company to reassess the way it handles critical patches.
Apr 5, 2007 |
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Phishing for Bloggers
The proverbial "big fish that got away" has been found on Google's Blogger. Last week, Fortinet reported that cyber-criminals are using blogs for phishing expeditions - users that access such blogs are redirected to fraudulent sites. Phishing is the cyber-version of the classic "bait and switch."
Mar 20, 2007 |
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25 Channel Executives You Need to Know
Karl Soderlund, vice president of Americas sales for Fortinet, was No. 6 on this list of cutting edge channel executives
Mar 20, 2007 |
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Blogger.com Infested With Malware And Scams
According the security firm Fortinet, Google's Blogger.com is being used extensively in both phishing attacks and to propagate malware. In some cases the traffic to the sites is being driven by "a variant of the Stration mass mailer" worm a Fortinet security note warns.
Mar 19, 2007 |
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Shine The Spotlight: 5-Star Partner Programs
Fortinet was named a Five-Star Partner by VARBusiness for the second consecutive year.
Mar 19, 2007 |
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Fortinet spots malware, phishing on Google Blogger.com pages
Hundreds of weblogs on Google's Blogger.com platform are being used in phishing attacks or to disseminate malware, according to research released this week by Fortinet.
Mar 19, 2007 |
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Blogger System Sites Used for Phishing
"In a recent security advisory Fortinet is reporting that due to Blogger's popularity, hackers have started to embed malicious scripts on some blogs. 'These scripts have shown up on hundreds of Blogger.com sites.
Mar 16, 2007 |
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Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers
According to Fortinet, Genuine-looking blogs on topics as wide-ranging as "Star Wars, school, furniture, Christmas, cars and girlfriends" are now being created to host a variety of script-initiated malware.
Mar 16, 2007 |
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Blogger.com vulnerable to phishing threat
Google's popular, free weblog hosting service Blogger.com appears to have been infiltrated by a spam e-mail ring that is setting up fake blogs, according to a security company.
Mar 16, 2007 |
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Security Bites Podcast
Microsoft took a Patch Tuesday hiatus this week, but Apple stepped in and released two updates with fixes for 46 vulnerabilities. That's more security holes than Microsoft has repaired in the past three months.
Mar 16, 2007 |
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Fortinet: Beware of Google's Blogger
Surfing Google's Blogger Web site is dangerous, warns Fortinet. Several of the blogs on the site have been taken over by miscreants and redirect to phishing Web sites or try to load malicious software onto PCs, the security firm said in an alert Wednesday.
Mar 15, 2007 |
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Unsafe On Blogger: Star Wars, Girlfriends, Drugs
Security firm Fortinet has found a lot of malicious code posted on Google's Blogger service, with a mass mailer worm directing spam recipients to it in some instances.
Mar 15, 2007 |
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Yet more vulnerabilities in major security products
Several vulnerabilities have been found in McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator management tool, which could be exploited to gain remote access to systems running the software.
Mar 15, 2007 |
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Blogger.com targeted by online criminals
A few weeks ago, casual surfers to the official Super Bowl XLI site were exposed to malicious exploits, not by design but rather because vandals attempted to poison a legitimate Web experience.
Mar 14, 2007 |
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What's Driving Cyber Crime?
There is surprisingly little written about the underlying drivers for the rise of cyber crime. Last spring I was asked to present a Doomsday Scenario at a security trade show in Boston.
Mar 12, 2007 |
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COVER STORY: Networks Under Siege
In a world where hackers are mounting ever-more harmful threats, companies are building up their arsenals by adding new types of security products
Mar 12, 2007 |
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Burger, Fries & Security
Whipping out that credit or debit card at your local fast-food restaurant may be convenient, but it has also put the so-called quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector under the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard microscope.
Mar 12, 2007 |
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Malware Threat Report for February 2007
Fortinet has announced the most threatening reported malware activities and top 10 threats for February 2007.
Mar 2, 2007 |
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Fortinet Buys the Rest of CoSine
Network security vendor Fortinet Inc is about to announce that it has acquired the remaining assets of defunct carrier and MSP security developer CoSine Communications Inc whose intellectual property it bought in May 2006.
Mar 1, 2007 |
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Boxed In
The industry has seen a steady shift from standalone technologies like firewalls to unified threat management (UTM) appliances. These devices, which integrate antivirus, antispyware, intrusion prevention and firewall onto a single platform with a common policy engine and centralized alerts and logs, have long appealed to small and midsized businesses short on staff and budget.
Mar 2007 |
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Multifunction Security Appliances
Several years ago, Marcus Ranum, security industry luminary and inventor of the proxy firewall, began talking about the emergence of a "god box" - a single appliance capable of handling all aspects of network security.
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Securing The Perimeter With IPv6
Major network and security vendors have raced against the clock to inject support for a new IP-addressing scheme--Internet Protocol version 6--into flagship firewall lines to help federal agencies meet a looming White House deadline.
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Balancing Risk Against Opportunity
Laws coming into effect this year expand requirements to retain e-mail and other documents, and encrypt confidential consumer data being stored. Changes to laws protecting the privacy of customer's confidential information also are on tap for 2007. Following California's lead, about 30 states have imposed rules that require organizations to disclose when data leaks have occurred.
Jan 30, 2007 |
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Broken Windows: Clean-up or Rebuild?
According to Brian Krebs, security blogger for the Washington Post, writes that as of Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007, Fortinet showed the best results in antivirus scanning of new malicious threats above other tested vendors.
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Fortinet Adds NAC To FortiGate Appliance
Fortinet this week took the wraps off an SMB-focused version of its flagship FortiGate appliance that marries networking and security functions.
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Fortinet switch enforces NAC policies
Fortinet this week plans to announce an enterprise access switch that enforces NAC policies as well as a host of other security functions the company is already noted for.
Jan 23, 2007 |
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Fortinet Unifies Networking, Security
Fortinet today announced the FortiGate-224B(tm), the first in a line of unified security and networking platforms that uniquely integrate multiple layers of threat protection with granular security access controls to help safeguard against both external and internal network threats without the need for multiple point solutions.
Jan 23, 2007 |
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Fortinet Switches into NAC
Fortinet Inc, known primarily as an unified threat management appliance vendor, will today unveil its take on the network access control space, releasing a UTM-switch device aimed at remote and branch offices.
Jan 22, 2007 |
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Fortinet device steps up security support
Fortinet this week is announcing an enterprise access switch that also functions as a small-office WAN router and multifunction security platform, reducing the number of devices that need to be managed in branch offices.
Jan 22, 2007 |
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IE flaws stats stark, but omit big picture
That's the question Laurence Olivier's sadistic Nazi dentist asked Dustin Hoffman over and over again as he plucked out Hoffman's teeth sans Novocain in the 1976 thriller Marathon Man.
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Who's on first?
Richard Stiennon, a former Gartner Inc. analyst, has joined Fortinet Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. In the newly created position of chief marketing officer. Stiennon will be responsible for driving the company's branding and go-to-market strategies.
Jan 15, 2007 |
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Feedback Abuse Happening At EBay
Pumping up the feedback leads to being perceived as a better eBay seller, and that can lead to being able to command a higher selling price for items. Some people use transactions for virtually worthless items on eBay solely to mutually drive up feedback ratings.
Jan 11, 2007 |
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Fortinet Adds ASIC Booster to UTM Appliances
Fortinet Inc has upgraded the hardware of its latest line of unified threat management appliances, saying it will offer up to a 200% improvement in performance in some circumstances.
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Fortinet: An Alternative Security Vendor To Watch
In researching a story on the troubles and challenges at Check Point Software Technologies -- the company that brought the first commercially viable firewall to market -- I expected to hear many dissatisfied solution providers opting for leading alternatives, namely Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Surprisingly, the name that kept rising to the top: Fortinet.
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Trojans target online gamers, put businesses at risk
Password-stealing Trojans, malicious code contained inside apparently harmless programming, are infamous for targeting financial institutions. But there's another area that they covet -- games -- and you might be shocked to learn just how vulnerable you are.
Jan 9, 2007 |
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Microsoft Patches 10 Bugs, Omits Word Fixes
Microsoft on Tuesday released four security updates to patch 10 vulnerabilities, seven of them judged "critical." But the company failed to fix multiple flaws in its popular word processor that have been exploited by attackers for more than a month.
Jan 9, 2007 |
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New flaw found in Microsoft Excel
Researchers from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security vendor Fortinet Inc. and Danish vulnerability clearinghouse Secunia are warning of a new flaw in Microsoft Excel that attackers could exploit to run malicious code on targeted machines.
Jan 9, 2007 |
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Pre-Patch Tuesday flaws reported in Microsoft Excel, Internet Explorer 6
Security experts today reported two vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products - one of which likely will not be patched until next month's security update.
Jan 9, 2007 |
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New Excel Flaw Does Exist
A highly critical problem in Microsoft's much-utilized spreadsheet program Excel will be formally disclosed and patched by Microsoft later today.
Jan 9, 2007 |
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Fraud on eBay: Causes and Cures
EBay's success makes it a huge target on the Internet. Scammers are attracted to eBay like moths to a flame; the problem is that it's the eBay buyers and sellers who wind up burned.
Jan 8, 2007 |
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The year ahead: Juggling IT risks, opportunities
In 2007, IT executives will need to clearly evaluate risk as they weigh sometimes opposing proposals to bolster security, increase wireless connectivity, extend more business processes over the Internet and address regulatory requirements.
Jan 3, 2007 |
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People on the move
Richard Stiennon is to take on the role of chief marketing officer at Fortinet.
Jan 1, 2007 |
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