Security Log

November 21, 2005 12:00 PM ET

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Hole Found in Vendors' VPN Gear
Virtual private network products from a variety of vendors, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc., are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack because of a bug recently discovered by researchers at Finland's University of Oulu. The flaw affects a component of the IPsec protocol used by VPN software and hardware to securely exchange data over the Internet.
Sober Variants Popping Up
More variants of the mass-mail Sober worm are making the rounds of the Internet and could infect Windows-based computers, antivirus firms Kaspersky Lab and Symantec Corp. warned last week. Thus far, the variants present a low risk and haven't been widely distributed.

Security Bookshelf
Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security, by Himanshu Dwivedi (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005).
Storage is often overlooked from a security perspective, though the data we're trying to protect usually ends up on some form of network storage device. This book begins by helping the reader understand storage concepts and their inherent weaknesses and security issues before recommending how to store data securely. Especially interesting are the chapters on domain-hopping attacks and securing network-attached storage. Highly recommended. -- Mathias Thurman
Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security

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