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Stories For the Week of June 19th, 2006

 

6/22/2006 - Three New iPod Locks

Targus has debuted three new iPod security locks. The new product line includes the Mobile Security Lock for iPod, the Desktop Security Lock for iPod as well as the Eyelet Security Lock for iPod. Each of the locks is designed for use with all dock-capable iPods including the fifth-generation, iPod Nano, 4G, iPod minis, and the 3G iPods.

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6/21/2006 - Elemental Security Platform Earns Mac Platform Security Certification From the CIS

"SAN MATEO, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Elemental Security, Inc., the award-winning pioneer of new technology in enterprise information
security, today announced that its Elemental Security Platform (ESP) has been certified by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) for the CIS Mac OS
X Benchmark v1.02. Elemental's policy and risk management product is the industry's first product to complete the CIS' rigorous certification process for the Mac OS X Benchmark."

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6/21/2006 - Mozilla Camino 1.0.2 Released

Mozilla has released version 1.0.2 of Camino

In Camino 1.0.2, we have made the following changes and improvements since version 1.0.1:

* Fixed several critical security issues, including those fixed in version 1.8.0.4 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.

Camino 1.0.2 is available for download here.

 

6/20/2006 - Yet Another "0-day Exploit" for Microsoft Excel

A variety of security firms are publishing details on the latest "0-day" exploit for various version of Microsoft Excel.
http://secunia.com/advisories/20748/
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1927

Microsoft just recently posted some helpful tips in response to last weeks highly publicized Excel flaw.

 

6/20/2006 - Opera 9 for Mac OS X Released.

Opera Software has released version 9 of their popular web browser. Amongst the security features are the usual pop-up blocker as well as phishing alerts, SSL v3, TLS 1.0/1.1, and 256-bit encryption. Opera 9 also provides simple management of private data and cookie control. You can download Opera 9 from here.

 

6/19/2006 - Back From a Brief Vacation

We were traveling the last few days. We'll post some updates for this week shortly. Thank you for your patience!

 

 

 

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