Just a week after taking home the Rookie Security Company of the Year prize at the 2007 SC Magazine Awards Gala, The 41st Parameter landed an unexpected meeting with an industry heavyweight. Ori Eisen, founder and chief innovation officer at the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based anti-fraud firm, says executives from Oracle who attended the annual awards ceremony were impressed with The 41st Parameter and wanted to learn more about the company after seeing it win.
Campus exploit Hackers exploited an unpatched flaw and a disabled firewall to infiltrate a server at the University of Colorado, Boulder, compromising the personal information of nearly 45,000 students. Attackers exploited a flaw in Symantecs Norton AntiVirus to launch a worm into the server of the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Advising Center, making off with student info.
No matter which conference you attend, you are bound to come across a discussion on the payment card industry (PCI). There are forums, blogs, webinars and an abundance of information on the subject now. As well, security breaches make for a sensational headline, like those at CardSystems Solutions, the Veterans Administration or TJX.
For too long, companies have been forced to spread their IT departments thin in order to maintain secure IT systems and comply with government and industry regulations, whether that be Sarbanes-Oxley, SB 1386, GLBA, or others.
Webster defines security as, the quality or state of being free from risk of loss and that measures [are] taken to guard against espionage or sabotage, crime, attack or escape.
The Business Software Alliance, an advocacy group representing major software manufacturers, announced on Monday that it has raised its reward incentive for turning in suspected software pirates — from $200,000 to up to $1 million — from July to October.
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