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Market Wire - Computers and Software (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
ATLANTA, GA (MARKET WIRE) IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced new functionality across its security product portfolio to help clients simplify their security infrastructure and slash security costs. These new features are designed to help organizations reap more benefits from their security investments, which is increasingly vital for IT organizations to meet new demands.
Mitchell and I were lucky to have security industry pioneer and legend, Thomas Noonan as our guest for episode 57. In case you don't know, Tom was the co-founder and CEO of Internet Security Systems (ISS) and than managed that...
I read Gunter Ollmann 's post in the IBM ISS blog with interest today. Gunter is "Director Security Strategy, IBM Internet Security Systems," so he is undoubtedly pro-outsourcing. Here is his argument: [S]ecurity doesn’t come cheap. While individual security technologies get cheaper as they commoditize, the constant influx of new threats drives the need for new classes of protection and new locations...
ARMONK, NY (MARKET WIRE) IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) has selected products and services from IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division to expand its global cyber-security initiative. The agreement will strengthen Procter and Gamble's (P&G) threat protection arsenal by streamlining the management of its layered security tools and ultimately can help deliver...
Big Blue recently released its IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, and it contains more than a few eyebrow-raisers. For example: Web-application-based security vulnerabilities have begun to outnumber reports involving conventional viruses and trojans (of the kind that target the operating system). We're now at the point where 51 percent of newly discovered software...
In a presentation at the Black Hat briefings, Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. will discuss the new methods they’ve found to get around Vista protections such as Address Space Layout Randomization(ASLR), Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and others. Essentially they’ve figured out a way to hack Vista [...]
Dean Pullen the Inquirer , Friday 8 August 2008. 15:24:00 Another gaping hole presented by Microsoft AT THIS WEEK'S Black Hat security conference, two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely open Windows Vista to hackers. Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems and Alexander Sotirov, of Vmware Inc....
Put a fork in it. Via: NeoWin: This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees. Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection [...]
Dean Pullen the Inquirer , Friday 8 August 2008. 15:24:00 Another gaping hole presented by Microsoft AT THIS WEEK'S Black Hat security conference, two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely open Windows Vista to hackers. Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems and Alexander Sotirov, of Vmware Inc....
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees. Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection safeguards that Microsoft built into Windows Vista. These new methods have been...
IBM's latest Internet Security Systems X-Force report says the bad guys are exploiting security flaws faster than ever and are in many cases standing on the shoulders of the security research community. More and more of these attacks are coming within 24 hours after a vulnerability is publicly disclosed, raising the question over how much information should be released to the public when a new security...
There’s an exhaustive new security report out from IBM Internet Security Systems: the X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report. We’ve analyzed it over on the OStatic blog from the perspective of several open source platforms arriving on the “most vulnerability disclosures” list for the first time, and web workers will find quite a few points [...]
This looks bad: Open source software names such as Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress and Linux are now alongside large proprietary software firms including IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Sun, Cisco, and Oracle in the IBM Internet Security Systems ‘Midyear Trend Statistics’ report. But wait, there's more: It is the first time that community-developed open source software such as the Drupal and Joomla! content-management...
Filed under: Security , IBM The XForce won't save you from a burning building but, they just might make your surfing safer. The XForce is IBM's team of Internet Security Systems researchers and they've just released the midyear report for 2008 , listing all kinds of facts and figures on internet security. If you're really into data, go read the report for yourself. It might also be good for insomnia....
The so-called Slapper-worm has according to the internet protections business ISS (Internet Security Systems) to it led that two American internetproviders temporarily not accessible were. The worm has it especially coined on Apache-servers that uses make of OpenSSL, the open source implementatie of the Precise Sockets [...]
