CRN Security News for VARs and Technology Integrators

Encryption Tools Fortified To Lock Down Data

The updated PGP encryption platform can allow resellers to offer customers a unified encryption solution as opposed to separate point products.
Who's Touching Your Data, And What Are They Doing With It?

Use this opportunity to learn more about how you can communicate to your customers that you have what it takes to help them monitor and protect their critical data " or "crown jewels" - for improved business operations.
SonicWall Channel Chief Leaves Company

The company said that new leadership will mean rejuvenated emphasis on its channel program.
Zango Denies Role In Facebook Widget

While Zango maintains its innocence, Fortinet stands by its original assertion that the widget originated from the adware company.
Coverity's Prevent To Bring Self-Build Capability To Open Source project scans

A new product called Prevent will allow developers to build custom scan projects to identify potential security flaws in the source code.
New Symantec Execs To Streamline Departments

CEO John Thompson says the company's busness unit model, put in place after Symantec bought Veritas, has not worked as planned.
Symantec Moves Execs Up

Symantec CEO John Thompson names new chief operating officer and chief strategy officer.
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Brings Two High Priority Fixes

The critical patch addresses several Windows vulnerabilities, but probably won't affect a large number of companies, experts say.
McAfee: Open Source Software Disclaimer 'Old News'

In its 10-K report, McAfee advised investors its use of open source software could pose a threat to the company, but now says such disclosures are standard procedure.
Ralsky Indictment Won't Reduce Spam

Experts say that the amount of spam has actually increased since the initiation of the "CAN SPAm" Act four years ago.
U.S. CERT Warns Of RealPlayer Exploit

The Russian security company posted the RealPlayer vulnerability to its Web site, but so far has not released the exploit code to the company.
US CERT Warns of RealPlayer Flaw

The Russian security company Gleg posted the RealPlayer vulnerability on its Web site, but has so far not released the exploit code to the company.
New Adware Targets Facebook

The multi-pronged attack relies on social engineering and human curiosity to propagate the adware.
New IM Attacks Emerge In 2008

As IM becomes more popular in the workplace, malware authors will focus attacks to retrieve corporate data.
Data Loss Prevention Trends To Watch In 2008

Data breaches in 2008 will increasingly target smaller businesses as the large enterprises adopt security measures to counter attacks.
Malware Sites Exploit Bhutto Assassination

The fake Bhutto Web sites represent a trend of attacks that take advantage of high profile media events to distribute malicous code.
McAfee Fixes Past Stock Option Accounting Errors

The company recorded an additional $137.4 million of pre-tax, noncash stock based compensation charges dating from 1995 through 2005 to its books.
McAfee Rectifies Past Stock Option Accounting Errors

The company recorded an additional $137 million in compensation charges ito its books for 1995 through 2005 to eliminate stock option limitations.
2007 A Record Year For Malware

Analysts say to expect more malware attacks next year as authors learn from the success of notorious viruses like the Nuwar Storm Worm.
Google Stops Orkut Worm Attack

The spam worm is indicative of a greater trend of social networking site attacks, analysts say.

Slide Shows

	5 Major IoT Challenges Executives Are Grappling With A recent survey of more than 100 IoT executives found that many of them face issues when it comes to scalability, implementation, connectivity and security of IoT deployments, pointing to potential opportunities for solution providers.
	5 Things You Should Know About Cisco's Decision To Fold Spark Into Webex Cisco has announced that the former Spark platform will be known as Webex Teams, and it comes along with the launch of a new Webex Meetings application, as well as a new Webex Assistant and a Webex Share device.
	CRN Interview: Atos North America CEO On U.S. Expansion, M&A Strategy And Why Labor Arbitrage Is Dying "The world of offshoring everything to India or the Philippines is gone because customers want people next to them," said Atos North America CEO Patrick Adiba, in an interview with CRN.