Stories about: RSA

e-DMZ's Password Auto Repository (PAR) is delivered as a hardware appliance with all the services necessary for it to act as a privileged account password manager. All privileged account passwords are issued based on administratively designed rules. The passwords may be deemed valid for an indefinite life, for finite periods of time or for single purpose activities such as installations, upgrades or configuration changes.

Privileged IT staffers literally holds the keys to the castle. Access to those keys that open the doors to critical operating system and application resources must be carefully managed and legally audited. Enter the class of products referred to as privilege account management wares.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the social networking section of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign site was exploited over the weekend to redirect users to the URL of his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, (D-N.Y.), researchers claimed Monday.

As an addition to the 2008 RSA security conference in San Francisco, a software company called untangle hosted a shootout between competing Internet site filtering solutions. Held at the Thirsty Bear in San Francisco, the tools blocked porn with a 94-98% success rate.

At the 2008 RSA Security Conference, VeriSign showcased a card-sized number generator that adds an extra layer of authentication for online accounts. Major Websites such as Ebay, Paypal, and AOL are already on board.

The EC approves cell phones for airplanes, HP's 2133 competes with the EeePC, computer viruses make art, US Homeland Security Secretary keynotes at RSA, Europe's Galileo, and the new Smellphone.

US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff delivered a keynote at San Francisco's RSA Security Conference and talked about what advances the government is making in handling cyber threats.

Threats against browsers are getting more sophisticated and branching out into such exotic areas as gaming, experts told attendees at RSA Conference 2008.

On the eve of the RSA Conference a San Francisco gallery unveiled an exhibit called Infected Art. It's a collection of images created from the code of various viruses, worms, spam, and other malware.

Earlier this month, New Zealand completed its second Cyber Storm. Although the results of Cyber Storm II are not expected to be made public until August, some of the participants shared their thoughts on the experience at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.

Cracking a power company network and gaining access that could shut down the grid is simple, a security expert told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day.