Security week in review…
Week in Review…
This week saw a fatal blow to P2P companies in America which won’t mean much in the long run because the bad guys will always be able to build better P2P networks and P2P companies can always setup shop in jurisdictions outside the reach of US courts.
Cisco made another big acquisition in Netsift a one year old company for a cool $30M. The company made a product line that appears to be similar to that of Arbor Networks. Word on the net is Cisco does an amazing job at integrating aquisitions into its product lines.
Spyware/Adware was big this week. Microsoft is rumored to be considering controversial adware company Claria (Gator) while at the same time Symantec begin cutting its ties to “Researchware†company ComScore.
Google launched a new video service. 24Hours later DVD Jon hacked it up.
China says its cracking down on piracy…
AMD is suing Intel in America and Japan claiming that Intel coerced vendors into using their product line.
Speaking of lawsuits, someone is suing CardSystems over the breach of their card processing system which may have exposed 40M humans. Oh, then the next day 44 attorney generals decided to send a letter to CardSystems asking it to notify customers that were exposed during the breach. Time to hire a PR team.
Btw, InfoSecDaily has been completely redesigned with additional feeds and a nice little search engine. Be sure to check out the new look.
And that’s the week.
July 1st, 2005 at 8:25 am
Ejovi, the link to Spyware/Adware on InfoSecDaily isn’t working. As for Claria, I wonder if MS will buy it and then either dismantle the company or turn the product around to cut down on pop-up/ad softwre as part of it’s “security strategy commitment”.
On the topic of spyware/malware. A company in Cambridge, MA claims to be developing a software that would beat anyone including MS and Symantec at zero-day attacks prevention. Apparently, they received a $2M federal grant from the NSF after they mathematically proved it. I can elaborate on this company if you like. The CEO is the same guy who led and sold Okena Technologies to Cisco back in 2003.