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Online text depository Pastebin has decided to more closely monitor its site to quickly remove potentially sensitive information, according to a report from the BBC. The site is intended as a way for Internet users to post large amounts of data outside of somewhere such as a comment forum or a blog post, where huge amounts of text would appear to be out of place.
Internet security firm IronPort Systems announced on Monday an enhanced layer of protection for its Web Security appliance S-Series with the addition of Exploit Filtering technology. The company made its announcement on the heels of the March launch of its URL Outbreak Detection and Botsite Defense. That security layer protects users against malware distribution through Web sites controlled by botnets.
Aberdeen research shows that firewalls, VPNs, antivirus, antispam, intrusion prevention, and Web content filtering solutions are deeply penetrated in organizations of all sizes. Management of this portfolio of independent solutions can be time-consuming, costly and inefficient.
The British House of Lords has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who hacked his way into several U.S. military, defense and NASA computers, to the United States to stand trial. McKinnon has been fighting extradition since the discovery in 2002 that he was the one who broke into the U.S. government’s most sensitive networks between 2001 and 2002.
A City of San Francisco systems administrator is a living testimonial to the importance of preventing any one person in an organization from having too much power. Terry Childs, who is now in jail, holds in his brain the passwords that will let city officials access San Francisco’s Fiber Wide Area Network.