Stories by Julie Bort

Microsoft releases manual fix for Duqu zero-day

<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> has released a Fix-it tool to allow <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> users to manually patch their systems to thwart the Duqu Trojan: <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2639658">Microsoft Security Advisory (2639658)</a>.

Julie Bort | 05 Nov | Read more

McAfee's website full of security holes, researcher says

The McAfee.com website is full of security mistakes that could lead to cross-site scripting and other attacks, researchers said in a post on the Full Disclosure site on Monday. The holes with the site were found by the YGN Ethical Hacker Group, and reported to McAfee on Feb. 10, YGN says, before they were publicly disclosed to the security/hacking mailing list.

Julie Bort | 29 Mar | Read more

CISO inner circle

Michael Barrett, CISO of PayPal; Joseph Moorcones, vice president for worldwide information security at Johnson & Johnson; and Lynn Mattice, vice president and CSO for Boston Scientific, are among the industry's most outstanding CISOs. Here these well-respected security executives offer their insights on New Data Center-style, next-generation security, as well as give tips for securing everything from budgets to WANs.

Julie Bort | 22 Mar | Read more