http://www.securitycurve.com/ en-us diana@securitycurve.com Fri, 09 May 2003 12:15:29 -0500 http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000013.html "Sooner or later it had to happen. Microsoft is putting a lot of money into Digital Rights Management, and expects to get a lot more money back out so long as it can persuade consumers that DRM is their fluffy... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000012.html "A serious security flaw in Microsoft's Passport service put customers' accounts, including their personal information and credit card numbers, at risk of being hijacked. The flaw, in Passport's password recovery mechanism, could have allowed an attacker to change the password... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000011.html "Enterprise IT departments prefer best-of-breed security technologies. That's been a statement of fact for as long as it has taken information technology to evolve from the mainframe to the network. That statement of fact may not be holding water for... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000010.html "It's highly unlikely that the United States will experience a crippling "digital Pearl Harbor," the CIO of homeland security says. "While this is a possibility, the probability is relatively low," Steven Cooper said in an online chat sponsored by The... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000009.html "Some of the world's largest record labels are quietly financing the creation of programs by small software firms that, if deployed, would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to a published report. Citing... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000008.html "RealNetworks Inc. launched Monday a new service that delivers music, sports, news and entertainment audio and video to mobile phones and handheld computers running its software, the digital media software maker said." Nothing specific about security in the article, but... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000007.html "The panelists at an ongoing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) spam conference here couldn't even agree on the definition of spam, with some antispam advocates saying spam is all unsolicited bulk e-mail and some e-mail marketers arguing that spam should be... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000006.html "Microsoft is considering an external testing programme to improve the quality of its security patches. Difficulty in applying patches and instances where fixes fail to work properly - or cause unfortunate side effects - have long been an issue in... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000005.html "The results of a new study from research firm IDC offer a strong thumbs-up to the fast-evolving information security services sector, predicting that the market for such services will increase to more than $23.5 billion in the next four years."... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000004.html "First-generation wireless networking placed you between a rock and a hard place. Should you cave in and deploy a WLAN, despite well-documented protocol vulnerabilities and rampant threats? Or should you try to ban wireless, despite its business advantages and the... http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000003.html "The Wi-Fi Alliance, guardian of 802.11 wireless networking interoperability, has announced the first set of products that meet its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security specification. WPA, a subset of the 801.11i WLAN security specification, is set to replace the creaky...