RSA Conference 2009: More early news Cisco to make splash at RSA Conference Look for Cisco to make some noise at next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco. The company on Monday will brief editors on Cisco's latest security doings, such as how it is matching up security with its virtualization and collaboration technologies. HP Software bolsters application-scanning products HP Software Wednesday updated its security products to help customers scan Web-based applications for vulnerabilities. On display at HP's booth during next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, WebInspect 8.0, HP's Web-application scanning tool, has been upgraded to support vulnerability scans of Adobe Flash and Web 2.0 technologies. Cloud Security Alliance formed to promote best practices A group calling itself the Cloud Security Alliance announced its formation Tuesday, with eBay and ING as founding members. The alliance, which plans to make its first big splash at the upcoming RSA Conference, was formed to promote security best practices in a cloud computing environment. TippingPoint offers customer filtering service TippingPoint will announce next week a service that creates filters for its intrusion prevention gear to block potential attacks against vulnerabilities in corporations' custom Web applications. RSA upgrades data leak prevention suite EMC's RSA division Monday announced an upgraded version of its data-leak prevention suite, adding over twenty policy templates for recognizing personal identifiable information in countries around the world, including Spain and New Zealand. Other news Black Hat 'supertalk' halted due to vendor concerns The Black Hat security conference is full of drama again in Amsterdam, with the last-minute cancellation of a presentation by a group of researchers scheduled to reveal a dangerous software vulnerability. Time Warner Cable nixes bandwidth caps In response to negative customer reaction, Time Warner Cable said today that it was shutting down bandwidth cap trials for its Internet services. Comcast, Directv fines $4M for making 2 million annoying (and illegal) phone calls The Federal Trade Commission this week chalked up two more Do Not Call rule victories as it won fines against Comcast and Directv for not only violating that rule but for re-calling consumers who specifically had told the companies not to call them again. Podcast: Security threats: Good, bad and ugly Zulfikar Ramzan, technical director of Symantec Security Response, breaks down key statistics from the vendor's annual Threat Report. (9:44) SharePoint 2010 ... no more MOSS Susan Hanley, author of the Essential SharePoint blog, finds very happy news with the announcement of SharePoint 14 -- no more MOSS acronym. Video: Panasonic displays 'green house' Panasonic opened its eco-ideas house showroom in Tokyo on Wednesday. The house contains much of Panasonic's latest environmental technologies and a few prototypes and the way of living that it promotes isn't too far away. Video: Dodge Circuit: The battery-powered sports car The Dodge Circuit runs on lithium ion batteries that produce 200 kilowatts of power. April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. |
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