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Internet security firm IronPort Systems announced on Monday an enhanced layer of protection for its Web Security appliance S-Series with the addition of Exploit Filtering technology. The company made its announcement on the heels of the March launch of its URL Outbreak Detection and Botsite Defense. That security layer protects users against malware distribution through Web sites controlled by botnets. The Exploit Filtering layer targets the latest security threat posed by trusted Web sites compromised to deliver Trojans or phishing attacks.

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IronPort Offers New Layer of Armor Against Invisible Web Menaces

Aberdeen research shows that firewalls, VPNs, anti-virus, anti-spam, intrusion prevention, and Web content filtering solutions are deeply penetrated in organizations of all sizes. Management of this portfolio of independent solutions can be time-consuming, costly and inefficient. An upcoming Aberdeen benchmark report, “Unified Threat Management,” will look at the degree to which Best-in-Class organizations are consolidating multiple security functions into a single solution.

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Keeping the Web Barbarians at Bay

The British House of Lords has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who hacked his way into several U.S. military, defense and NASA computers, to the United States to stand trial. McKinnon has been fighting extradition since the discovery in 2002 that he was the one who broke into the U.S. government’s most sensitive networks — reportedly from a friend’s aunt’s house — between 2001 and 2002. He allegedly caused $900,000 in damages to computers located in 14 states.

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Alien-Hunting UK Hacker Coming to America

A City of San Francisco systems administrator is a living testimonial to the importance of preventing any one person in an organization from having too much power. Terry Childs, who is now in jail, holds in his brain the passwords that will let city officials access San Francisco’s Fiber Wide Area Network. Apparently, Childs was cheesed off that his supervisors tried to fire him for poor job performance, so he created an account that gave him exclusive access to the network, then refused to tell anyone the password.

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Network Held Hostage, Cyberterror Battle Plan, Evil Genius Wannabe

High-profile data breaches continue to spotlight the growing risks consumers face of identity theft and credit card fraud. Four highly visible data breaches disclosed in the last 18 months are particularly worrisome because they show a systemic failure in the procedures that both the public and regulatory agencies expect companies to get right. One notorious incident involved retail giant TJX. In that case, hackers stole some 46 million credit and debit card numbers when they accessed the computer systems at two TJX corporate hubs over a period of several years.

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Top Layer Networks’ Ken Pappas: When PCI Compliance Isn’t Enough