ITWorld Canada: SecurityThe latest on Security from ITWorldGeorgia cyber attacks by Russian gov't Not so fast- August 13, 2008 An Israeli expert says claims of Internet warfare are suspicious. There's no evidence the Russians are directly involved in denial of service attacks. Besides, he says, governments want to infiltrate foreign networks, not destroy them.http://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-e78b179f-5452-4f18-a... Overhaul privacy laws, says Australian law commission- August 13, 2008 The country's law reform commission wants to simplify the federal privacy law so both the private sector and governement have the same obligation to protect personal data. Agencies that transfer personal data outside Australia would also be largely accountable for ithttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-828264fa-8277-469a-b... Did IT learn nothing from the blackout of 2003- August 12, 2008 On the fifth anniversary of a major outage, an Info-Tech analyst warns many executives are too cheap to buy adequate power backup systems. Plus: How Toronto Fire Service handled the Propane explosionhttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-694acae6-5b5e-47b4-9... Estonia, Poland help Georgia fight cyber attacks- August 11, 2008 Georgia is defending its online as well as its physical turf in its struggle with Russia. Two Eastonian computer experts are trying to get into Georgia to help protect its networks, while Poland is letting Georgia post news on its president's Web sitehttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-6f1589a9-38e5-4b6e-9... European court delays British hacker's extradition to U.S.- August 11, 2008 Briton Gary McKinnon, who admits trying to hack into U.S. government systems, has won a brief reprieve against an attempt to extradite him to face charges. The European Court of Human Rights wants more time to ponder the casehttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-d78f53f3-1336-4140-8... Can file integrity monitoring stop data breaches- August 11, 2008 When talking about PCI compliance, the need for a solid auditing and file integrity tool cannot be understated, according to Gartner analyst Avivah Litan. Read about nCircles new product in this spacehttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-5ecf221e-b67c-49bb-a... iPhone includes app 'kill switch,' Jobs admits- August 10, 2008 It would be irresponsible not to have the ability to blacklist and disable applications from the App Store that turn out to cause harm, Apples boss said. Find out how a security researcher discovered the sitehttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-2c53388e-14c8-439e-a... Security consequences mean virtualization will cost you more, Black Hat speaker says- August 7, 2008 Researchers detail rootkits for NIC cards and Cisco's IOS routers, how to hack OSX, and more at the annual security conferencehttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-63352cea-73bf-44ee-a... Microsoft promises 12 patches next week- August 7, 2008 Of the dozen updates it sketched out in the advance notification issued Thursday morning, the software giant pegged seven as "critical," its highest threat ratinghttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-0051a71b-c35d-4c15-b... Nigerian IT group pushes forensic training- August 6, 2008 The Nigeria Computer Society wants the federal government to understand how to fight cybercrime so users will have confidence doing business over the Internethttp://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-144b6375-d1ac-4eed-a... |