Links to the full articles summarised in the News Bytes section for the Q3 2007 issue:

The Cyber-Ark Software survey which found one in three IT staff are likely to look through confidential information on corporate systems - article at Help Net Security

Senforce survey that found 73% of companies had mission-critical information on USB drives or notebooks - and often without any endpoint security strategy - article at Computerworld

Yahoo Messenger zero-day exploits - article at...
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If you are seeking more info on the product news in the Q3 2007 version of the CoreSight Update, these links provide detail to more extensive information:

Imprivata and Roaming Users - This is done via a procedure associated with a OneSign SSO agent event.  Don't worry, it's easier than it sounds!

Reflection for IBM 2007 (Vista Certified) - More on the new Reflection 2007 range.  If it's specifically Reflection for IBM you're interested in, you can look a...
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what it is, and why GE selected Sophos as their NAC toolset 

"Most organizations today have a set of comprehensive information security policies, but very few are able to confidently say they enforce these policies consistently across the organization."
Khalid Mark, Forrester

Early in June 2007 Sophos announced an agreement with GE which allows GE to deploy centrally managed network access control (NAC), anti-virus and firewall protection for up to 350,000 endpoints (la...
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information taken primarily from a blog post that shows an MSN bot in action as well as detailing how it works and why they exist

An image is sometimes worth a thousand words.  The picture below we grabbed from a blog by Dancho Danchev , and shows infected bots spreading spam messages at MSN via IRC based command and control.  There's also a diagram at the blog that illustrates at a high level how this works.

great for proof of concept

Available from 1 June 2007 is the VASCO Digipass basic pack.  It's a cost effective 5-user pack and includes the Digipass Pack for RADIUS software as well as all documentation and licenses required.  You will also get five GO3 tokens and associated records, with 12 months of maintenance and supprot.  All for only $660 ex GST per pack.  Other packs with smartcards for network login (and more) instead of the GO3 are also available - costs vary....
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You can get more information about the Ballfinder SCOUT and the Sima 12-Foot Inflatable Outdoor Home Theatre Kit - as well as heaps of other interesting gadgets - from our friends at Gizmag . 

You may also be interested in visiting the manufacturers' websites to enquire further about Ballfinder SCOUT and Sima 12-Foot Inflatable Outdoor Home Theatre Kit respectively.

If you have a product you think would be suitable, let us know!

trade to the best X!

Attachmate is planning a promotion launching 1 July 2007 in selected regions including Australia to make Reflection X (or Reflection Suite for X) with maintenance available under special pricing when replacing Hummingbird Exceed or other qualifying PC X Server products.  Check this website for more details as they come to hand - but perhaps better to email us and we'll send you full details when they're released. 

So you didn't receive a copy of the Q3 2007 CoreSight Update, or worse you've lost it - don't despair! Just click the link to download a full PDF copy.   CS Update Q3 2007  (523.13 Kb)