Rob Jaques

Organisations that do not include security as a criterion when building or buying software will see system downtime caused by security vulnerabilities treble from 5 per cent to 15 per cent of downtime in 2008, industry experts have warned.

The US Army Medical Information Technology Centre has implemented an upgrade to improve the security, performance and availability of its global Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure.

IT security managers can look forward to the arrival of enhanced patching technology which will automate and reduce the cost of installing software security and maintenance updates, industry experts have predicted.

Cisco Systems has reached a definitive agreement to acquire publicly held NetSolve, a Texas-based provider of corporate remote network and IT infrastructure management services.

The authors of the latest MyDoom email worm variants have embedded a secret message inside their malicious code that asks for a job in the anti-virus industry, security researchers have discovered.

Serious security flaws that potentially affect hundreds of email gateway products have been discovered in the widely deployed MIME (Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions) protocol.

Global spam volume peaked at a record-breaking 90 per cent in August 2004, topping the year’s previous high of 85 per cent set in June, a recent analysis of over 3 billion email messages has revealed.

The Las Vegas-based Venetian Resort Hotel Casino has added an extra layer of IT security with the installation of an intrusion prevention system (IPS) behind its network firewall to identify and block external hacking attempts.

Media Capital Group, the largest web portal and email provider in Portugal, has deployed an antivirus system designed to protect its Linux infrastructure from worms, viruses and Trojans.

Fuelled by strong demand from the enterprise sector, global firewall/VPN security appliance shipments bucked a stagnant technology market in 2003 to record growth of 27 per cent, recently published research has found.