Security News Desk

Web Security Journal: There's been a flurry of discussion this week among Internet and Web standards heavy-hitters around WebSocket, the new communications protocol supported in Chrome 4 and Safari 5. What was the main issue? Is there some kind of fundamental security vulnerability with the WebSocket (WS) protocol? John Fallows: When surfing the Web, our browsers may communicate with Web servers via HTTP proxies that deliver many benefits, such as providing previously cached Web content more efficiently than repeatedly contacting the target server. These proxies may be either explicitly configured at the browser or they may form part of the general network topology to intercept the communication path implicitly. Securely encrypted Web communication cannot be intercepted by such proxies. Members of the Hypertext Bidirectional (HyBi) IETF Working Group recently comp... (more)

Tarantella Ships Secure Global Desktop Terminal Service

Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop Terminal Services Edition (TSE) 4,  has been shipped and will be making its way to distributors and clients. A security layer for use as a companion to Windows Terminal Services, Secure Global Desktop TSE 4 features support for cross-platform clients. With broad, cross-platform RDP client support, TSE 4 offers built-in support for a variety of client devices. In addition, it broadens the range of Windows-based terminals, Linux clients, and Macintosh computers to access applications on Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers via RDP. Tarantella's TSE 4... (more)

Storage Wars Heat Up: IBM Teams With NetApp

"The IBM relationship with Network Appliance is a prime example of how two industry-leading companies, both of whom actively support open standards, can team to offer information on demand solutions," said Andy Monshaw, General Manager, IBM Storage Systems, as IBM and NetApp yesterday announced a strategic storage relationship to drive information on demand solutions and to expand IBM's portfolio of storage solutions, already one of the largest and most advanced sets of storage and information management products in the industry. As part of the relationship, IBM and NetApp will e... (more)

SoftTree Technologies Releases Enterprise Version of DB Audit

SoftTree Technologies, Inc. has announced immediate availability of DB Audit Expert 2.7. This new version extends multi-vendor database support with advanced security auditing solutions for Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2. It is also packaged with the new Alert Center server capable in a real time to detect anomalous database activities, discover database access patterns and security vulnerabilities. DB Audit Expert solutions provide complete access control and real-time actionable information required for effective enterprise-wide database security operations and IT governance re... (more)

LiveVault Adds Automatic Offsite Protection as well as Database and Exchange Support to Microsoft DPM

LiveVault Corporation , the leading provider of disk-based online backup and recovery solutions for business servers, launched LiveVault InSync Service for Microsoft DPM, which supports and extends the capabilities of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). LiveVault InSync for DPM automatically and securely transports Microsoft DPM server data electronically offsite to a remote facility where it is available for immediate recovery in the event of a system failure, virus, human error or natural disaster. LiveVault InSync for DPM also enables companies to fully prot... (more)