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03 July

The lowdown on the Techworld product awards

We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. We don't want the judges' decision to be shrouded in secrecy so this year we're setting out why the winners triumphed.

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• Security's virtual badlands
  We hear from Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch why virtualisation is still Terra Incognita for network security technologists - and why he believes his company is worth more its rivals and the stock market seem to think.
• Social networking - ban or restrict?
  The virtual flood gates have been opened and social networking is rushing in from the personal lives of employees and into the workplace - bringing a host of concerns along with it.
• Are smartphone viruses really a threat to your network?
  Phones are business computers operating outside the firewall. It's only a matter of time before there's a serious mobile virus outbreak.
• How a laptop nearly ruined one man's life
  When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography on to the laptop.
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• Ransomware - frightening but thankfully rare
  Crypto "ransom" malware executes the perfect zero day attack, from which only mathematicians can save us. But is this type of virus really that big a fear?
• DDoS returns to plague websites
  A pattern has been emerging from the background noise over the last few weeks which suggests that something is taking place that is resulting in an increasing number of successful attacks against moderate to large sites.
• US data breach laws a waste of time
  The database security laws passed by 39 states cause businesses substantial expense. Worse, there is no evidence that they actually work.
• LinkedIn users warned over 419 scam
  Users of the professional-oriented social networking site LinkedIn are being warned that scam artists are using the site to nab lucrative bank account information from naive victims, say security experts.
• A security approach to 'free'
  Kevin Kelly explains eight "generatives" - things that can't be copied and so still hold value on the Internet.
• How to sell security
  Understanding buyers and sellers, and a little theory about behavioural economics.
• Microsoft on offensive over "misunderstood" Vista security
  In its continued attempt to convince business customers to adopt Vista, Microsoft has tried to explain some of what it calls the OS's most "misunderstood" features in a document posted to - then mysteriously removed from - its website last week.
• Security battles its 'Stockholm syndrome'
  The PCI standard has come to rescue those suffering from information-security Stockholm syndrome. PCI is good security for everyone. Embrace it, defend it, and improve it.
• Problems with monitoring virtual infrastructure
  Questions about how to monitor VMware ESX installations are common on community forums, but the term "monitoring" covers so much ground and could involve so many tools that the question requires a lot of refinement.
• 5 ways insiders exploit your network
  Data theft and sabotage can result in hard costs, compliance-related problems, legal fees, productivity loss and, possibly most costly, loss of reputation. Here are the five most often-used-methods insiders use to access network resources and how best to avoid them.
• NASA employee scammed with "dating" attack
  The latest targeted attack incident being studied by security pros - a simple online dating scam that endangered NASA's secrets.
• With Determina, VMware drops fortress mentality
  Nand Mulchandani, VMware's senior director for security products, defends the company's reputation in the security community while clarifying that developing new products will keep it one step ahead of rivals.
• 7 dirty secrets of the security industry
  Joshua Corman, principal security strategist for security vendor IBM/ISS reveals seven secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks.
• And still the spam comes...
  There is no end in sight to the phenomenon of spam. And the better filtering gets, the more spam that gets sent. So who is winning the spam war?
• Vista security annoying by design
  "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," says Microsoft's David Cross.

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