AhnLab, Inc., a global integrated security solutions provider, announced to simultaneously release V3 Internet Security 2007 Platinum throughout the world. AhnLab will accelerate global business development with this Integrated Internet security solution.

V3 Internet Security 2007 Platinum integrates AhnLab's proven technologies in anti-virus and anti-spyware with newly developed technology. It protects systems against threats of malicious code such as viruses, worms, spyware, and hacking attempts through real-time protection system. As an all-in-one security solution, V3 Internet Security 2007 Platinum is expected to be highly recognized for its excellence in the global market.

I haven't heard much about Ahnlab's products, so I can't really comment on the relevancy of this article.

Big Brother is watching you.

RFID sounds futuristic: A transmitter smaller than a dime embedded in everything from a T-shirt to human skin, communicating data over a short distance to a reading device.

Today, it can be used to identify missing pets, monitor vehicle traffic, track livestock to help prevent disease outbreaks, and follow pharmaceuticals to fight counterfeit drugs. Many of us start our cars using RFID chips embedded in the ignition key.

RFID chips, injected under the skin, can store a medical history or be used to control access to secure areas. The next generation of passports and credit cards are hotbeds for RFID. It could make bar codes obsolete.

However, hackers and analysts are exposing potentially serious problems. Hackers could disable a car's RFID anti-theft feature, swap a product's price for a lower one, or copy medical information from an RFID chip.

That's freaky. Freaky deaky. Remind me burn everything I own and find one of those tin foil hats.

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CA plans to sell security software to consumers and the SOHO market under a deal with electronics retailer RadioShack.

RadioShack's broad base of stores and brisk online business make it like a Starbucks of consumer/SOHO electronics outlets, according to Kafkarkou. The convenience of RadioShack's locations should help increase the brand awareness of CA's products, and CA expects to see greater penetration of its products into the home because of the deal, he said.

RadioShack, eh? The only thing useful I could ever find there were batteries or some rare kinds of plugs that would only work in Slovenia. But, whatever works...

I hate online advertising, though it is certainly necessary in expanding and financing important web projects. This great article details some of the inherent security risks involved with those pesky ads and popups.

Regardless of how you feel about Web advertising, the Internet as we know it wouldn't exist without it. Advertising is a huge revenue source on the Web, and only a naive technology purist would think that a major Internet company could survive without this income.

With so many scams and misinformation on the Internet, companies and people increasingly mistrust Internet content, and advertisements are no exception. In fact, I believe there will eventually be a point of diminishing returns. Internet security isn't getting better; it's getting worse -- for users and advertisers.

This former security mogul goes all Ike Eisenhower in his retirement speech:

Indeed, free-market financial interests and an unhealthy complacency by vendors and customers alike continue to overpower sound security logic and practices. Even though many companies conduct cutting-edge research into technological security measures, the IT world continues to endorse a technology-centric approach to information protection. This has created a security planning problem for information-based organizations.

Customers forget that the technologies of protection are only as reliable and resilient as the underlying infrastructures they want to protect. Failing to acknowledge or fix an infrastructure plagued with problems raises many doubts about any security product's ability to function in such a foundation. Placing more complexity on top of existing (and flawed) complexity does not lead to increased protection, but rather, fosters a false sense of increased protection.

Yikes. This is something every Norton and McAfee executive should read, even if they consequently ignore it. Hopefully their torch will be passed to smaller security firms that will be more likely to follow Forno's advice.

This nice article outlines some potential problems with those fancy-sounding all-in-one security software.

The multipurpose security appliances that consolidate firewall/VPN, content filtering, intrusion prevention and more into a single box are winning favor as easy-to-manage devices. But the open secret about these unified threat management devices is that they take a bite out of bandwidth as they inspect content.

It's not uncommon for UTM products on the market today to suffer as much as a 50 percent loss in performance as the full panoply of security services is put to use. That's a situation acknowledged by UTM vendors, which sometimes advise customers to compensate by getting higher-bandwidth devices than they ordinarily might need.

I'm not sure if it's worth the bandwidth, but I'm still anal enough to want the protection at the expense of server/internet speed.

US based Internet security firm SurfControl of northern California has said in a release that they have noticed that computer hackers are now using a Google Toolbar look-alike application to lure people into installing malicious program on their computers.

This malware application is capable of turning the victim's machine into a zombie, which the hackers can later use for internet attacks, or mass spam mailing.

Is nothing sacred? If you ever find yourself downloading a toolbar from any place other than the official website of the company which designed it - you're in trouble. So don't do it. And don't download anything from email - even those damn joke-forwards from your parents.

This thing seems pretty sharp. Read the review:

Securespot offers virus protection, parental control (content blocking), an integrated firewall, network activity reporting, identity protection, antispyware, a spam blocker and a popup blocker -- which pretty much encompasses all of the security needs of a typical SOHO.

The device, which includes a one-year software subscription for four users, employs multilayer security to protect users on the network. A Web service layer manages network security using real-time updates of antivirus, spam, spyware and content-filtering databases. A physical layer provides network perimeter protection through the firewall, content and virus filtering, application control, identity theft and reporting. Also, a desktop layer applies antivirus and spyware detection and removal, popup control and application control.

I wonder how much material in the future is going to shift to external models like this as opposed to software.

Yet there are some other things that you need to understand before placing a wireless security system around your wireless network. The first is to see what are the different types of access points by outsiders into your wireless network. Secondly, are some simple steps to setting up your wireless system by you? One of the main things in a wireless firewall, so the third section is on the things that the firewall protects you from. And last we will look at how a wireless security system will be applicable not only to a home computer, but also to network security.

Another reason other people have to access your computer is for identity theft. In this way some is able to break into a wireless network and not really mess with anything, but they are being destructive in another way to you. They are monitoring your vital information to steal your financial codes and personal codes so that they can log in through their own computer to sabotage your life. And the last type of access is an overload access. This is when someone gets access to different procedures in your computer and then sets them on auto-drive. They continue to pump your wireless system with useless functions that eventually break down the network.

The first thing after setting up one of these three is to change the default password or key. Most default passwords are going to be the same name as your wireless network. The next thing that you should do is change the name of your network. If you log on to see the different wireless networks around your apartment then you may see quite a few with just corporation names of the companies that put out the different wireless routers. There are also other things that you can do, such as: turning off file sharing in case someone is able to break your code (at least they can't get to your files then) and you can also set up the perimeter of your wireless access so that people outside the physical area of your house or business complex will not be able to tap into your wireless network.

• Remote login - This is when someone is trying to control and log into your account to retrieve certain information.
• Application backdoors - Some programs have special features that allow for remote access for a hidden or backdoor way.
• SMTP session hijacking - By taking control and getting access to your list of e-mail addresses, a person can send unsolicited junk e-mail to thousands of users.
• Denial of service - You may have heard this phrase used in news reports. A hacker sends a request to a certain server. The server tries to respond, but is unable to find the client. While this is happening thousands of other similar requests are sent which causes the system to slow or even crash.
• E-mail bombs - An email bomb is usually sent by someone that is personally involved with you and involves thousands of emails being sent to your account, which freezes up any more use of the account.
• Macros - Your computer uses daily commands called Macros to carry out complex tasks. Hackers have also used macros to keep systems running in different directions, which cause failure of the software and hardware.
• Viruses - The most well known danger. Viruses are small programs that cause a lot of damage by "infecting" your computer and breeding within.

What would you use wireless security in your home network?
Wireless security can protect your network security as well. There are four categories of what wireless security can protect in your network. The first is email security, integrity, and availability. It is becoming more and more important to keep email confidential because of personal information that is sent from email box to box. Email integrity, or the integrity of the account holder, is equally important since many hackers now have the ability to take over address books and send out spam or viruses from your account.

The second thing that network security accomplishes is a tough infrastructure. This keep out external forces such as viruses, hackers, and natural process that may cause failure of your internal system, as well as forces that may come from internal structures such as poor choices by employees.

A third coverage zone of network security is compliance with legal structures. Network securities help your company comply with legally binding external laws and regulations as well as the company's own rules and regulations. Keeping in line with regulations, whether internal or external, shows a level of integrity to those that your company deals with.

A fourth coverage area is financial protection. Unless you are living still in the Middle Ages and only dealing with the bartering of goods, there is a good chance that money is exchanged within your business. You may have an internal financial office that does accounting and financial reviews, or you may depend on an out-of-house company to take care of complex financial situations. Either way, there is going to be vital financial information kept on your network and individual computers; and network security can protect it.