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1-in-4 worms spread through infected USB devices

Hard on the heels of a report that a USB drive was used to compromise U.S. military networks in 2008, a security company today claimed that 25% of all new worms are designed to spread through the portable storage devices. via 1-in-4 worms spread through infected USB devices.

Visa Raises The Bar For PA-DSS Applications And Vendors

For example, using a PA-DSS validated application by itself does not make you PCI compliant. Rather, you still need to implement the application according to the vendor’s implementation guide (which is sometimes an issue when resellers are involved), and you have to implement it in a PCI-compliant environment. via StorefrontBacktalk » Blog Archive » Visa [...]

Tenable Network Security Awarded U.S. Patent for Network Monitoring Technology – Technology | Centre Daily Times – State College, PA | Penn State, Nittany Lions, weather, news, jobs, homes, apartments, real estate

Tenable developed the Passive Vulnerability Scanner PVS to complement its other market leading active network scanner, Nessus. Where Nessus allows organizations to audit networks for known vulnerabilities, conduct full patch and configuration and compliance audits at a point in time, Tenable’s PVS allows organizations to continuously monitor the same network by analyzing network traffic 24×7 [...]

Privacy software: Who are the early leaders? – software, security, privacy, ControlCase, Consult2Comply, brinQa, Avior Computing, Archer, applications, Agiliance – Security & Email – PC World Business

Together they form what I’d call the “privacy GRC” market, where GRC stands for “governance, risk and compliance.” GRC makes up most of what privacy people do. It’s not a big market. To put things into perspective, Gartner is only in its third year of analyzing the nascent IT GRC market. The privacy GRC market [...]

Windows DLL load hijacking exploits go wild

Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn’t patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code appeared Tuesday to exploit the company’s software. Also on Tuesday, a security firm that’s been researching the issue for the last nine months said 41 of Microsoft’s own programs can be remotely exploited using DLL load hijacking, [...]

Visa offers new guidance on securing payment applications – Computerworld

Visa on Tuesday announced a set of security best practices for vendors of payment applications and for the systems integrators and resellers responsible for implementing and managing them. The guidelines are designed to address continuing vulnerabilities in the payment chain stemming from insecure implementations of the applications that are used in credit and debit card [...]

More On PCI DSS 2.0 « #PCI

The biggest news out of this presentation is that requirement 6.5 will now apply to all in-scope applications, not just Internet-facing or browser-based applications. Based on all of the breach research that has been conducted, they have finally realized that any application in the cardholder data environment (CDE) is a potential hazard, not just those [...]

Visa Provides Guidance on Secure Implementation and Management of Payment Applications — SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ –

Visa today announced global industry best practices for payment application vendors, integrators and resellers that implement, install or manage payment-related systems on behalf of merchants. The best practices developed by Visa in collaboration with the SANS Institute are designed to complement the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). via Visa Provides [...]

Trojan blamed for Spanish air crash

A plane crash that killed 154 people in 2008 might have been partly connected to the infection of an important ground safety system by malware, a Spanish newspaper has claimed. The Spanair plane took off from Madrid to fly to the Canary Islands on 20 August 2008, but failed to clear the runway. Of the [...]

Google Apps gets FISMA-certified for government work

Google has landed an important federal certification for encryption and security. An official Google blog post said that the company has received Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation from the U.S. government for its Google Apps office productivity suite, including Gmail. via Google Apps gets FISMA-certified for government work.