Thursday | 8 January, 2009

Stories about: Sanctum

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    Sorting out the facts in the Terry Childs case 31/07/2008 08:12:20

    It's been nearly three weeks since Terry Childs was arrested on four counts of computer tampering and sent to jail on US$5 million bail. In those three weeks, this event has taken turns to the strange, and wound up firmly in the land of the absurd. From bombastic claims in the press to midnight visits by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to pages of functional usernames and passwords entered into the public record, this case has certainly proven engaging.
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    Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue 21/07/2008 08:08:40

    Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on US$5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking a network hostage for reasons unknown, but new information from a source close to the situation presents a different picture.
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    Pimp my data center: OSI Security Devices 19/06/2008 08:53:46

    APC's NetBotz surveillance system can spot any hooligans invading our precious HIG 319 sanctum, but it can't keep them out. That's where OSI Security Devices' Omnilock 2000 comes in. This high-security physical access system met two key requirements for our specific situation.
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    Beijing prepares for 'High-tech Olympics' 12/06/2008 11:17:17

    All over Beijing, Olympic countdown clocks tick off the seconds that China has awaited for seven years: the moments until Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:00 pm, when the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics begin.
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    IBM to buy Web application security vendor Watchfire 07/06/2007 08:07:36

    IBM liked Watchfire s Web application security software so much it plans to buy the company for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday.
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    DNS attack puts in perspective 20/02/2007 14:26:59

    A few years ago, I had the privilege of seeing some root DNS servers in action at VeriSign's main headquarters. It's something I had wanted to do for over a decade, and I was literally slightly shaking with excitement (yes, I am that big of a geek).
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    F5 buys rival to kill it 17/05/2005 07:58:26

    F5 Networks has agreed to pay Watchfire an undisclosed sum for its Appshield application firewall purely to kill it in favor of its competing system, Trafficshield.
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    Feeling vulnerable? Try assessment tools 27/07/2004 08:54:34

    It was a requirement that come June, high-volume merchants and payment processors that do business on the Web and want to work with MasterCard International had better have conducted quarterly vulnerability assessments of their Web sites. MasterCard warned last year that it won't do business with them otherwise.
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    Rethinking IDS 23/03/2004 10:42:22

    After the Nachi worm hit last year, Joe Granneman, manager of networks and PC services at Rockford Health System, knew it was time for a change. "It only took three infected machines to bring down our dual processor firewall," he marvels. "Without our Internet connection we couldn't process claims or do much of anything."
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    Check Point halts application threats 09/02/2004 11:52:43

    Check Point NG Enterprise with SmartDefense provides swift layer 7 protection.
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    NetContinuum adds network firewall to NC-1000 09/12/2003 08:05:23

    Web application firewall maker NetContinuum Inc. said Monday that a new version of its NC-1000 Web Security Gateway adds network firewall features to the product's existing security features.
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