Network Security News

The Net evolves quickly; the famous 'Web 2.0' state coined by O'Reilly isn't news any more; now the semantic web, or 'Web 3.0' is being widely discussed. However, people underestimate the possible threats and traps available, as more services and features become available on the Net. Canopus Consulting refers to those in The Dark side of the Internet.

Social networks are the places where a bunch of information becomes available; in most cases - freely available for anyone visiting the profile. Since many a security means expect user to enhance security by using such feature as secret question/answer pair, this technique may in fact turn out a security breach, as The Internet Patrol mentions in Use Facebook and Gmail? Your Gmail Password May be at Risk!.

To most computer users all the inner details of software functioning is total mystery. What's worse, even the simple and well-known errors that can be easily explained and for which there are many known solutions, can become an impassable barrier, preventing users from efficient using their computers. MakeUseOf.com relates to this in How To Analyze A Windows Blue Screen Of Death With WhoCrashed.

There are several levels of security means; there are several layers of security measures. The favorite aim of most hackers is vulnerabilities, abundant nowadays. However, even if there are no known or possible ways to grant an unauthorized third party control over certain resources, the server or service can still be subject to DoS and other attacks. Dev Central announces a challenge in An Unhackable Server is Still Vulnerable.

Security isn't just a small set of known actions or rules to follow. Security is the complex solution, being as weak as the weakest factor of it is. Apart from human factor, intranets of many companies may be compromised by users accessing them via iPhones. The Tech Generation daily relates to this in Iphone "is a security threat" - maybe.

The 'jailed' environment in which all the iPhone OS applications exist, was designed as a security precaution, too. However, the old truth remains valid: if the security is tight enough to make users uncomfortable, they would seek the ways to loosen the security and thus all kind of undesired effects will spring into existence. Ars Technica comments the last iPhone piece of news, Apple patching critical SMS vulnerability in iPhone OS.

Well-known recent incidents in hosting industry, related to virtual environment 'hacks' resulting in taking over hundreds of VMs have resulting in security measures hardening and developing new means to protect virtual machines. FindMySoft in its post Trend Micro Core Protection Software Secures Virtual Machines announces further security hardening for VMWare-based VMs.

Lack of knowledge, or simple carelessness may be responsible for the situation depicted by Ars technica in its post 12% of e-mail users have actually tried to buy stuff from spam. The number is depressing, since it demonstrates why the spam still exists and eats up precious network resources.

Internet wasn't meant the exact replica of real world, with its threats and dangers projecting in cyberspace. The very nature of many protocols and services doesn't assume there could be denial-of-service and other kinds of attacks, nor deliberate misuse of the resources. Astaro Internet security mentions several basic ideas in their post How to protect your network from cyber-attacks.

Spam email, the primary type of junk Internet content, plagues us for decades. Tech Blorge blog mentions in its post Spam email fools millions of American Internet users an important point: junk mail can serve not only for selling illegal stuff and performing fraud, it is also a mighty tool to influence many people.