This post is based on my keynote speech at “Technology Watch” held concurrently with the “13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection” last September 15–17 in Ottawa, Canada. Let’s consider two figures who were born a year apart and became famous criminals in the 1930s. John Dillinger was a flamboyant bank robber [...]
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The data breach at Heartland Payment Systems cost the company a whopping $12.6 million in legal costs and fines from Mastercard and Visa. Heartland, a publicly traded company that provides bank card payment processing services to merchants in the U.S., made the disclosure less than four months after confirming a malware intrusion that compromised [...] One of the last stand-alone host-based intrusion detection product vendors has been picked up by an anti-virus firm. The Redwood City-based HIPS vendor Sana Security has been acquired by the popular AV vendor AVG for an undisclosed sum. What is HIPS you may ask? Think of it as a firewall for the operating system [...] Yoggie Announces Gatekeeper Pico, Gatekeeper Card Pro for Macs October 13th, 2008 Yoggie Security Systems today launched the Gatekeeper Pico for Mac and Gatekeeper Card Pro for Mac, the “world’s first miniature hardware internet security devices for MacBooks and Mac desktop computers”. The devices provide 12 internet security applications on a dedicated hardware. Security functions [...] The PA-4020 is indeed a unified threat management firewall, even if Palo Alto Networks would like to pretend it isn’t. Because it’s a firewall with integrated VPN, intrusion prevention and detection, URL filtering, anti-virus/anti-spyware, and file blocking, the PA-4020 fits squarely into the definition of a UTM firewall. Click to read full article… [...] |
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