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Market Solutions To The IP Address Squeeze Creating a market for addresses as the free supply dwindles rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but nothing else can possibly work. - Perhaps too late, it's widely recognized now that the IPv4 address pool will run out in the next few years. The current prediction, based on current data, is for the IANA to exhaust its pool on January 25, 2011, and for the last block from the last RIR (Regional Internet Registry) to go on Decem... Security Service Tests Staff Vigilance Against Phishing Attacks PhishMe, a new security SAAS offering from the Intrepidus Group, enables companies to launch mock phishing attacks against their own employees in the name of improving email security. - The Intrepidus Group has put its own spin on the axiom about teaching a man to fish. In this case, the information security vendor is teaching companies to phish Â– not so they can feed themselves, but so they can educate their employees on the threats they face. Through Intrepidus new software-as-... Kaminsky DNS Flaw Details Leaked Accidentally Technical details of a flaw in the Domain Name System that made headlines earlier in July were accidentally posted to a well-read security blog July 21. Dan Kaminsky advises immediate patching. - Details of the DNS flaw uncovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky have found their way into the public arena. Kaminsky, who is the director of penetration testing for the security company IOActive, had planned on keeping the specifics of his discovery close to his vest until the Black Hat co... Report Alleges Open-Source Security Breakdowns A report sponsored by software security vendor Fortify Software accuses the open-source community of dropping the ball on security during the development process. But is open source really less secure? Not necessarily. - Fortify Software released a report July 21 that will likely wake open-source advocates and application developers from their morning calm. Dubbed the Â“Open Source Security Study,Â” the Fortify-sponsored report, which was prepared by security consultant Larry Suto, examined 11 of the most common... What if You Fell Through a Manhole? Having only one person with critical knowledge in an organization is an inherently dangerous situation. You don't need malice for it to blow up. - The most striking fact about the San Francisco network lock out case has been the absence of details that would allow an informed outsider to say quot;Oh, that's what's going on. quot; We've been left mostly with vague accounts from spokespeople. But one thing must be true of this incident: Admini... SF IT System Lockout Continues Administrators still cannot access San Francisco's main IT system, thanks to a now jailed employee who changed all the passwords and won't give them to authorities. - An IT employee who is charged with gumming up the works at the City and County of San Francisco's main data center by changing access passwords for administrators could have been stopped short of crippling access to the system if IT management had had the right security software in place. ... DNSstuff Freeware Detects Vulnerable DNS Servers DNSstuff has released a new tool to help organizations detect if their DNS servers are vulnerable to the DNS protocol flaw revealed last week. - DNSstuff.com is offering a free tool for organizations looking to test the susceptibility of their domain name servers to a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System protocol revealed publicly last week. A provider of on-demand DNS and network analysis tools, DNSstuff made the freeware, whi... Network Admin Arrest Puts Spotlight on Insider Threats Some say a San Francisco network administrator charged with holding the city's FiberWAN hostage underscores the threat insiders can pose. But is the damage done by rogue employees more myth than reality? - When reports of a disgruntled network administrator locking his co-workers out of San Francisco's new FiberWAN first touched my ears, the first thought that raced through my head besides the word quot;wow quot; was that this was a clear example of how an insider can potentially bring IT opera... Security SAAS Makes Messaging Strides Security in the cloud, also called Security SAAS, is currently focused on messaging security, but expect the concept to include remote vulnerability testing, malware filtering, URL blocking, browser proxy security and other areas as the enterprise work force relies more on mobility and applications in the cloud. - Efforts at security in the cloud, also called Security SAAS, are currently focused on messaging security, but expect the concept to expand as the enterprise workforce relies more on mobility and applications in the cloud. Messaging security has been a big beneficiary of early security SAAS (softwar... Symantec Steals Distributor Deals Symantec aims to boost its profit margin by allowing its largest customers to skip the distribution channel. - Symantec plans to drop distributors from its largest partner transactions and send the business through its largest resellers, Platinum Partners. Symantec expects dropping distributors from the engagements will improve its margin, company executives told Wall Street analysts in a session on the ch...