Automatic Propagation of Threat Data across Networks for Instantaneous Enforcement

Redwood City, Calif. – August 18, 2009 — Nominum, the leader in intelligent network naming and addressing solutions, today announced delivery of the third generation of its Trusted Response and Universal Enforcement (TRUE) ArchitectureTM, which allows service providers to provide instant and automatic protection to end users against a wide range of Internet threats as soon as they are discovered.  These threats include botnets, phishing, illegal content, and many other forms of malware.  By leveraging Intelligent DNS systems, the TRUE Architecture ensures Internet users have a safe, secure and efficient Internet experience and represents a new era for the DNS and its critical role in the Internet.

18th August 2009 - Web site code auditing could have avoided the 90,000 pound online booking loss incurred by the Intercontinental Hotels Group, says Fortify, the application vulnerability specialist.

Richard Kirk, Fortify's European Director, said that the online booking fiasco - in which rooms at the Crown Plaza Venice East Quarto D'Altino hotel were sold for pennies - has lost the group tens of thousands of pounds.

"Rooms, which normally cost between up to 150 pounds a night at the four star hotel in Venice, have been booked by savvy Internet punters, most of whom are well aware of the law of contract," he said.

"After the company initially blamed the fiasco on hackers, they quickly realised their own coding and data mistake - and are now effectively locked into completing the contract with customers," he added.

The apparently amusing tale of how New York coffee shops - apparently fed up with laptop users hogging their table space and using up electricity for hours on end - has a much darker message, says Sean Glynn, Director at Credant Technologies.

 According to Sean Glynn with the endpoint data protection specialists, the story highlights the fact that laptop usage amongst business people has now reached critical mass.

"Thanks to the proliferation of public access WiFi and mobile broadband dongles, laptops used for business are no longer the preserve of road warriors," he said.

14th August 2009 - Reports that a number of local authorities are sacking staff for viewing personal data on the DWP's Customer Information System (CIS) comes as no surprise, says Cyber-Ark, but merely serves to highlight the need for highly privileged access to this kind of data.

According to Mark Fullbrook, the IT security vendor's European Director, taking a data silo approach to private data is now the optimum approach to allowing privileged access to information, as well as allowing the data to be shared between specific people on a carefully controlled - and encrypted - basis.

"It's interesting to note that Cardiff Council sacked a member of staff for looking at CIS information on celebrities.