First miniature security computer for Mac desktops and laptops
MacBytes.com — [image] The new Gatekeeper Pico for Mac and Gatekeeper Card Pro for Mac, provide 12 internet security applications on a dedicated hardware that offloads security, improves productivity and protects users wherever they connect. With predictions of over 10 million Apple Macintosh computers sold by the end of 2008, Macs are rapidly becoming attractive targets to attackers. Additionally, the typical Mac user is more mobile than a Windows user and as such has a higher risk of exposure to internet borne threats. The Gatekeeper Pico for Mac is a USB key-size Linux-based security mini-computer, with 12 built-in security applications. The device ...

First miniature security computer for Mac desktops and laptops
MacBytes.com — [image] The new Gatekeeper Pico for Mac and Gatekeeper Card Pro for Mac, provide 12 internet security applications on a dedicated hardware that offloads security, improves productivity and protects users wherever they connect. With predictions of over 10 million Apple Macintosh computers sold by the end of 2008, Macs are rapidly becoming attractive targets to attackers. Additionally, the typical Mac user is more mobile than a Windows user and as such has a higher risk of exposure to internet borne threats. The Gatekeeper Pico for Mac is a USB key-size Linux-based security mini-computer, with 12 built-in security applications. The device ...

Q&A: Threats to the US Critical Communications Infrastructure
DarkReading - All Stories — [image] Paul Parisi is the CTO of DNSstuff.com and has an extremely broad and deep technical background offering reality based solutions to everyday issues. In this interview he discusses the biggest threats to the communications infrastructure, the full disclosure of vulnerabilities as well as cyberterrorism. What are currently the most significant threats to the US critical communications infrastructure? It depends on what one defines as critical communications infrastructure. Certainly this should include: Each of the above can support its own rational for use and value. The simplest and most effective means to impede that use/value is ...

Most Organizations Lack Adequate Protection Against Spam & Data Leakage
DarkReading - All Stories — The majority (70 percent) of companies would like a single solution that addresses both inbound and outbound threats. Cost-cutting measures are spurring the move toward virtualization, with 34 percent of companies planning to adopt virtual security appliances in the next 12 months. Companies continue to be concerned about email-borne malware, including malicious URL links (56 percent), phishing attacks (49 percent) and malicious attachments (47 percent). Over the next 18 months, 40 percent of organizations plant to increase their budgets for information protection and control.