Cisco Systems announced several new upgrades on Tuesday in an effort to beef up its security portfolio, but some analysts said the company still lacks a key technology that would help keep malicious code from even entering networks.
The software giant began notifying Passport users in the past 24 hours of changes that would give them more control over their accounts and increased privacy and security.
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Former One.Tel director Jodee Rich is stepping up security at his luxurious Vaucluse estate following the troubled telco's very public collapse and calls from over 3,000 furious unsecured creditors for him to pay back his AU$6.9 million bonus.
The Queensland government intends to beef up the powers of its state chief information officer role, to ensure the candidate has enough power to effectively deal with individual departments and agencies.
Intel plans to announce a new network processor that will handle security functions, a move it expects will reduce the cost and improve the performance of networking equipment.
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It seems Microsoft is paying more attention to security these days. And while Office XP is more secure than its predecessors, it offers some of the same old security options we've seen before, packaged as though they were new. Even so, Microsoft appears to be heading in the right direction.
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With Windows Defender beta 2, Microsoft beefs up its free antispyware app with a new name, engine and tools.
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