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Anonymous renders Canadian Nazis not-so-anonymous

February 08, 2012

Hacktivist online community Anonymous exposed prominent Canadian neo-Nazis last month after hacking into a fascist website.
 

Cavoukian slams Supreme Court

February 08, 2012

Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's information and privacy commissioner, slammed the Canadian legal system in her opening speech at a symposium on surveillance and privacy late last month.
 

SDA, McAfee mark Canada's card

February 08, 2012

Canada received a mediocre ranking in cyber security, according to a new report ranking countries on their security stance.
 

Canadian government officials downloading illegal content

January 10, 2012

Representatives from the Pirate Party of Canada highlighted the irony of Canadian government officials using file-sharing sites to infringe on copyright.
 

Canadian privacy challenge exposes double standard

January 10, 2012

Canadian lawyers may have opened a legal can of worms by requesting the public release of heavily censored photographs.
 

Product reviews

Core Security Technologies Core Impact v12

February 01, 2012  |  Core Security Technologies Core Impact v12
Core Impact Professional started life as a pure-play penetration test tool.
 

eEye Digital Security Retina CS

February 01, 2012  |  eEye Digital Security Retina CS
The Retina CS from eEye Digital Security provides a multitude of vulnerability scanning and management features and functions.
 

Fortinet FortiScan-3000C

The FortiScan-3000C from Fortinet provides full agent-based and agent-less vulnerability scanning, as well as patch management capabilities and remediation.
 

GFI LanGuard 2011

February 01, 2012  |  GFI LanGuard 2011
LanGuard 2011 from GFI is a powerful vulnerability management application.
 

Lumension Scan

February 01, 2012  |  Lumension Scan
Lumension Scan is a part of the larger Lumension Vulnerability Management platform.
 

McAfee Vulnerability Manager

 

netVigilance Internal Scan - Cloud

February 01, 2012  |  netVigilance Internal Scan - Cloud
 

Rapid7 Nexpose Enterprise Edition

February 01, 2012  |  Rapid7 Nexpose Enterprise Edition
The Nexpose Enterprise Edition appliance from Rapid7 is another tool that has grown into a vastly different product over the years.
 

Saintscanner and Saintexploit

February 01, 2012  |  Saintscanner and Saintexploit
Last year at about this time, we were introduced to Saintbox from Saint and found it a wonderful marriage of all the Saint products in one easy-to-use appliance.
 

SecPoint Penetrator

February 01, 2012  |  SecPoint Penetrator
Unlike traditional hardware appliances, this product is available as both a rack mount server, but also as a smaller Dell OptiPlex unit.
 

Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI)

February 01, 2012  |  Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI)
The Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) from Secunia takes an interesting approach to vulnerability assessment.
 

Tenable Network Security Nessus ProfessionalFeed

Back again this year is our old friend Nessus from Tenable Network Security. For as long as most can remember, this has been a necessary tool in any vulnerability assessment toolkit.
 

ManageEngine Security Manager Plus

February 01, 2012  |  ManageEngine Security Manager Plus
ManageEngine Security Manager Plus from Zoho is a full-scale tool that provides a lot of punch in a relatively tiny package.
 

ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Appliance FT2011

ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Appliance FT2011 is a versatile server providing strong authentication to a wide range of services and online applications.
 

Cryptocard Blackshield Server v3.1

The Cryptocard Blackshield Server v3.1 is designed as an authentication service delivery platform, automating all tasks around user and token management, provisioning, reporting and billing.
 

Deepnet Security DualShield v5.2

DualShield v5.2 from Deepnet Security is a unified authentication platform, using the versatile authentication server model.
 

DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise v5.2

DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise v5.2 is a centrally managed suite of solutions – access management, data protection and secure communications – that protect data and control access to PCs and applications.
 

Entrust IdentityGuard

January 03, 2012  |  Entrust IdentityGuard
IdentityGuard from Entrust offers a plethora of multifactor authentication methods that can be used throughout the enterprise, as well as for customer-facing web applications, such as online banking and web-based account management.
 

PhoneFactor

PhoneFactor provides the addition of second-factor authentication using something everyone has: This product uses a phone as a token.
 

SecureAuth Identity Enforcement Platform

This product leverages an already existing Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) structure to add multifactor authentication to a host of services and applications.
 

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From the Blogs


Phishing email leads to Denver area health care breach

February 07, 2012

Hackers may have accessed the personal health data belonging to patients of Denver area-based Metro Community Provider Network, a nonprofit health care provider for low-income individuals and families.
 

Towards a safer internet

David Harley, ESET senior research fellow • February 07, 2012

Child safety is a hot topic right now, but then it's always important.
 

Risk: Security's new compliance

Torsten George, vice president of worldwide marketing and products, Agiliance • February 06, 2012

Increased threat levels will lead to a budget realignment toward security.