Trojan Swipes FTP Credentials for Major Companies

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TOP STORIES - June 30, 2009 • Trojan Swipes FTP Credentials for Major Companies • IBM Encryption Scheme Discovery May Improve Cloud Security • How Will the Antivirus Market React to Whitelisting? • Security Hardware Sales Expected to Rebound • Is China's Green Dam Really a Bad Thing? SPOTLIGHT Teardown Reveals iPhone 3G S Secrets When the iPhone 3G S hit store shelves, RapidRepair got one and promptly pulled it apart. Here is what was found. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Seven Vendor Tech Certs End Users Love • Five New Smart (Tech) Technologies • 10 Enterprise Apps We Will Need Soon • Roadrunner Wins Supercomputer Race FEATURED VIDEO eWEEK NewsBreak Dunkin' Donuts offers iPhone app; HP helps reduce wasteful IT spending. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • What's Google's Next Breakthrough? • Jackson Mourning Crashes Google • NASA Missions Stumble, Succeed in June • Dell, HP Gear Up Back to School Laptops IN THIS ISSUE Trojan Swipes FTP Credentials for Major Companies Security researchers are tracking a Trojan that has swiped as many as 88,000 FTP credentials for organizations such as Symantec, McAfee, Amazon, Cisco and the Bank of America. According to researchers at Prevx, the compromises are part of an operation that has been in business for more than two years. READ MORE >> IBM Encryption Scheme Discovery May Improve Cloud Security An IBM researcher has found what could be described as a fully homomorphic encryption scheme that allows for data manipulations without being exposed. This discovery by IBM researcher Craig Gentry could offer a roadmap to providing better security in cloud computing environments, as well as fighting spam. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Sun/Intel Solution Sheet for the Solaris OS and the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. Explore the benefits of running the Solaris OS on Intel Xeon-based machines. Download Now. ADVERTISEMENT How Will the Antivirus Market React to Whitelisting? Application whitelisting is being talked up by everyone from pure-play vendors like CoreTrace to larger security vendors like McAfee and Symantec. But while many say a hybrid blacklist/whitelist approach is needed, CoreTrace is positioning itself as an alternative to blacklist-based anti-virus. READ MORE >> Security Hardware Sales Expected to Rebound The recession caused a 16 percent decline in spending on security hardware and appliances. Despite that dip, the forecast is for security spending to rebound to two-thirds of 2008 sales before the end of the year. READ MORE >> Is China's Green Dam Really a Bad Thing? If China already has the largest and most sophisticated Internet monitoring and control system in the world -- the so-called Great Firewall of China -- why do they need remote management and filtering software on every client? Perhaps it's because centralized management isn't scaling to hundreds of millions of users. Is that a problem we could all face? READ MORE >> 10 Ways to Make Your Firewall Work For You Traditional firewalls are focused on blocking simple threats and intrusions. They don't really have the ability to intelligently let selected applications and data pass through unchecked while still filtering out unwanted applications and potential threats. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Virtualization Finally Comes to SAP Users While a number of large VMware customers have now virtualized a majority of their applications in the data center, they have hesitated to move their ERP and other mission-critical applications into production in virtual machines. However, SAP's recent pledge of support for VMware platforms provides the assurance that many SAP customers will need to begin to virtualize the applications that run the backbone of their IT infrastructures. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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