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InfoWorld SECURITY Feed
InfoWorld - Information Technology News, Computer Networking & Security
| 04/03/2009 07:12 AM |
| IBM sees Conficker hitting 4 percent of PCs |
IBM is the second company in two days to suggest that the number of computers infected by the Conficker.C worm may be higher than previously thought.
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| 04/03/2009 06:46 AM |
| Hackers seize on 0-day flaw in Microsoft's PowerPoint |
Microsoft warned Thursday that hackers are actively exploiting a software vulnerability in PowerPoint, the company's presentation application.
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| 04/02/2009 05:08 PM |
| IBM continues push for Sun, but will the deal kill Solaris? |
The high-stakes, but still under-the covers battle by IBM to take over Sun Microsystems is still in play, but IBM may be rethinking what it is willing to pay for the enterprise vendor.
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| 04/02/2009 10:52 AM |
| Bill would give feds role in private sector cybersecurity |
Two U.S. senators are proposing legislation that would give federal officials significant new authority to create and enforce data security standards both for government agencies and key parts of the private sector.
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| 04/02/2009 07:06 AM |
| Conficker may be more widespread than previously thought |
The Conficker worm may have infected more machines than previously thought, according to Internet infrastructure provider OpenDNS.
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| 04/01/2009 11:20 AM |
| Forrester now says '09 U.S. IT spend to drop 3.1 percent |
Forrester Research is now predicting that U.S. IT spending will drop by 3.1 percent this year, shattering its previous projection of a 1.6 percent increase.
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| 03/31/2009 11:33 PM |
| Conficker activation passes quietly, but threat isn't over |
An expected activation of the Conficker.c worm at midnight on April 1 passed without incident, despite sensationalized fears that the Internet itself might be affected, but security researchers said users aren't out of the woods yet.
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| 03/31/2009 03:45 PM |
| Gartner: IT spending drop-off worse than after dot-com bust |
Global IT spending is expected to decline nearly 4 percent in 2009 over the previous year as industry watchers confirm the current recession will see more losses than the dot-com bust in 2001, Gartner reports.
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| 03/31/2009 10:05 AM |
| China denies cyberespionage charges |
China on Tuesday denied suggestions it could be involved in a cyberespionage ring that attacked computers worldwide from servers mostly based in the country.
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| 03/31/2009 09:46 AM |
| Fake security software scammers jump on Conficker |
Google's search rankings are being stuffed with links to fake security software that purports to remove Conficker, a widespread worm that's currently the Internet's No. 1 security threat, but doesn't.
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Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor is a network
security scanner that allows
to
audit and monitor network computers for
possible vulnerabilities,
checks your network for all potential methods that a
hacker might use to attack it. Nsauditor is a complete
networking utilities package that includes a wide range
of tools for network auditing, scanning, monitoring
and more. You can discover network services and check
them for vulnerabilities, list all TCP and UDP endpoints
with their associated process, discover NetBios names,
audit MS SQL servers, scan for common Adware traces
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packet filtering and analyzing, web proxy scanning,
password auditing, IP address lookup
and more than 45 network
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access to machines, DNS and
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and intrusion detection based on security events log.
Reports can be generated in HTML and XML format. Overall,
this is a very complete package for a surprisingly low
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SpotAuditor
- Internet Explorer, Outlook and MSN messenger password
recovery
SpotAuditorreveals
passwords saved in Internet Explorer, recovers ICQ,
Trillian, Miranda IM, VNC, Far ftp client, SecureFX
ftp client, FileZilla, WebDrive Ftp, FTP Voyager, AutoFTP,
32bit FTP, FTP Navigator, Dial-up, RAS, VPN, Outlook,
MSN messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8 and Windows
Messenger passwords, IE Auto Complete Fields and recovers
passwords stored behind the asterisks in password text-boxes.
It is a program for viewing and cleaning the secret
data stored by Internet Explorer. SpotAuditor allows
deletion of unwanted entries from the system protected
storage and explores Outlook Accounts, Visited URLs,
Installed Programs and Start Run Programs on a local
machine or remote computers. SpotAuditor allows to clear
Internet Explorer history, delete cookies and temporary
internet files. You can recover and restore any lost
or forgotten password ever entered in Internet Explorer.SpotAuditor
instantly cracks and decrypts passwords stored on your
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NetShareWatcher
- Monitors Network Shares and Identify Shares which
are
Violating Data Access Policy
It allows network administrators
to monitor
network shares and identify
shares which are violating data
access policy in their organization.
NetShareWatcher is very handy. You
can configure it once and forget about network sharing
problems. You need just select restricted groups or
users and every time when NetShareWatcher
will find network share with access list containing
that restricted groups and will perform an configured
action. It allows you to easily monitor
network shared folders and
permissions. NetShareWatcher alerts anytime an user
sets a share ACL to "Everyone" or some other
global group that violates your data access policy as
well as disable this shared folders automatically if
you have selected appropriate feature in the settings.
NetShareWatcher has user friendly interface and is easy
to use. Being configured once, it will regularly notify
you on network sharing detection with restricted permissions
assigned.
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BlueAuditor - detecting and monitoring Bluetooth devices in a wireless network
BlueAuditor
is a wireless
personal area network auditor
and easy-to-use program for detecting
and monitoring Bluetooth devices in
a wireless network. It can discover and track any Bluetooth
device within a distance between 1 and 100 meters and
display key information about each device being detected
as well as the services device provided. With the growing
popularity of the Bluetooth
technology,BlueAuditor
will enable network administrators to effectively
audit their wireless networks against security vulnerabilities
associated with the use of Bluetooth devices. BlueAuditor
enables the user to save the data of the detected Bluetooth
devices in an .xml file and supports the most Microsoft
Bluetooth drivers available on the market. All the mentioned
features are provided with a user friendly graphical
interface
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RemShutdown - allows Shutdown or Restart Network Computers Remotely
RemShutdown
allows shutdown
or restart network computers remotely. You
can specify a delay during which a message you specify
can be displayed and applications running on the remote
computer at the time of shutdown can be allowed to close.
In addition, RemShutdown offers the user the option
to cancel the shutdown. The tool is designed with a
user-friendly interface and is easy to use.
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Product Key
Explorer |
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Product
Key Explorer displays product key for Windows, MS Office,
SQL Server and more than 500 popular software products
installed on your local or remote network computers.
In order to install or reinstall Microsoft Office, Windows,
or other commercial software, you must have access to
a product serial key (CD Key) for that product. Product
Key Explorer retrieves serial keys from network computers
and allows to protect your company from having pirated
software on your network. With this software you will
be able to track the number of software licenses installed
in your business, find and recover a lost or forgotten
product keys, save and keep an up-to-date backup of
all your software license keys in a central location.
Excellent tool for network administrators, or businesses
undergoing a software license compliancy. You can save
product keys as Tab Delimited Txt File (.txt), Excel
Workbook (.xls), CSV Comma Delimited (.csv), Access
Database (.mdb), Web Page (.html) or XML Data (.xml)
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NetworkSleuth - Network
File Search Utility
NetworkSleuth
is a fast file search tool, that allows search for files
located on local or network computers and supports searches
for documents, image, MP3, music and video files, allows
to search for files in Local Area Network(LAN) based
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