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    Security is in a "trough of complacency" in the boardroom but getting it back on the agenda depends on security officers taking a different approach -- evaluating the benefit of protecting against tomorrow's threats, not yesterday's, according to one analyst.

  • Sendmail vulnerable to critical flaw...again

    A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70 percent of the world's e-mail messages.

  • Evil bit arrives on April Fools'

    Perhaps one of the better April fool's jokes to pass around on Tuesday was the suggestion that security engineers had made a change to the IPV4 protocol to include an "evil bit" flag to detect malicious traffic.

  • Thousands 'trojaned' through net shares: CERT

    CERT/CC, a US based group responsible for alerting the Internet community to security threats, has today warned that an increase in network share-based attacks may be paving the way for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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