Stories about: Sanctum

It's been nearly three weeks since Terry Childs was arrested on four counts of computer tampering and sent to jail on US$5 million bail. In those three weeks, this event has taken turns to the strange, and wound up firmly in the land of the absurd. From bombastic claims in the press to midnight visits by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to pages of functional usernames and passwords entered into the public record, this case has certainly proven engaging.

IBM liked Watchfire s Web application security software so much it plans to buy the company for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday.

A few years ago, I had the privilege of seeing some root DNS servers in action at VeriSign's main headquarters. It's something I had wanted to do for over a decade, and I was literally slightly shaking with excitement (yes, I am that big of a geek).

Today's Web-connected applications need more than just firewalls. Application-security gateways can't grow up fast enough.

Today's Web-connected applications need more than just firewalls. Application-security gateways can't grow up fast enough

It was a requirement that come June, high-volume merchants and payment processors that do business on the Web and want to work with MasterCard International had better have conducted quarterly vulnerability assessments of their Web sites. MasterCard warned last year that it won't do business with them otherwise.

After the Nachi worm hit last year, Joe Granneman, manager of networks and PC services at Rockford Health System, knew it was time for a change. "It only took three infected machines to bring down our dual processor firewall," he marvels. "Without our Internet connection we couldn't process claims or do much of anything."