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Palo Alto Networks Delivers ‘Read-Only’ Facebook

June 8th, 2010

This is new marketing on a capability they have had for a while now….

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/51294

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Palo Alto Networks Discovers Critical Vulnerabilities Addressed in Today’s Microsoft Security Bulletin

June 8th, 2010

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Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline

May 14th, 2010

Bait and switch?  or just an effort to be economically viable.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline/

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Risk Management of Everything

May 13th, 2010

Haven’t read the entire pamphlet yet by Michael Power, but it is good so far.

http://www.demos.co.uk/files/riskmanagementofeverything.pdf?1240939425

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India to Develop Own Operating System

May 13th, 2010

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Traditional AV Testing: File under ‘Irrelevant’

May 10th, 2010

Here’s an article and interview with Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro on AV testing.

http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/traditional-av-testing-file-under-‘irrelevant’/

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Gene Kim & Rick Moy Discuss the Aurora Attacks

May 10th, 2010

The topic of the conversation is this pdf that NSS Labs released that tested how well seven popular AV products protected against Aurora.  Only McAfee did well.  NSS recommends that endpoint security vendors focus more on vulnerability protection rather than reactively blocking individual attacks.

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RIP Flash

May 6th, 2010

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McAfee -The future of firewalls is here

May 6th, 2010

McAfee is releasing McAfee Firewall Enterprise Version 8.

Our next-generation firewall is a true revolution in network security and administration.

http://www.mcafee.com/OverhaulYourFirewall

I wonder if this is just a reworked Sidewinder or something totally different.

Filed under: Firewall/UTM · McAfee · Next Generation Firewall

Facebook’s New Social Plugins

May 6th, 2010

>Social plugins in particular allow users to interact with other websites (for example, “Liking” them) without even logging in.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/facebook-social-plugins/

This may cause unwanted side-effects for enterprise users. As of their latest content release, Palo Alto Networks can uniquely identify this social plugin traffic and block it independently from “normal” Facebook use. This means if company really needs to use Facebook, they can avoid the social plugin use if they feel it is too risky.

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