IBM offers companies monthly security report
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OCTOBER 25, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IBM today introduced a security service that offers a concise, monthly global-network threat report designed to help organizations assess security needs and vulnerabilities from a business perspective.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new release of its premier virtualization management software that adds powerful new capabilities for simplifying the management of virtual and physical systems across multiple platforms.
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The number of malware code samples in the wild grew 30 percent to 410,000 in 2007, according to security researchers at IBM's ISS division. The Storm worm in particular accounted for 13 percent of the entire malware collection.IBM released these findings and more in its security trends report for 2007, which summarizes the threat landscape based on IBM's research on malware, software vulnerabilities, phishing, and Web sites with questionable content.While software vulnerabilities decreased 5.4 percent last year to 6,437 disclosures by vendors, the most risky "high impact" vulnerabilities that allow immediate remote or local access increased from 16.2 percent in 2006, the first such increase noted since 2004.Kris Lamb, operations manager at X-Force Research and Development at IBM ISS, says one thing that struck him about this year's threat analysis is that half of the software vulnerabilities reported by vendors in 2007 had no vendor patch available for them."It seems that vendors have not produced patches, and we don't know why," Lamb says.Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, IBM, and Cisco, together accounted for 13.6 percent of the total number of vulnerabilities -- and left 20 percent of those vulnerabilities unpatched, the report points out.On the spam front, average spam message size is down to pre-2005 levels, corresponding with a decrease in image-based spam, the 2007 IBM ISS report says.The report also notes that 9 percent of Internet content can be classified as unwanted criminal, pornographic, or "socially deviant" as compared with 12.5 percent last year. Socially deviant content is said to include political extremism, hate sites, and groups advocating discrimination. The United States far outpaces other countries as the primary hosting source of this unwanted content, accounting for roughly 40 percent to 48 percent in each category.In its malware-code analysis, IBM ISS says there's a shift from mass-mailing worms to sophisticated targeted Trojan attacks with rootkits and other blended threats. Trojans made up the single largest class of malware in 2007, accounting for 26 percent of the total. But IBM ISS believes that malware code is becoming less distinct as simply a virus, worm, spyware, backdoor, or password stealer."Modern malware is now the digital equivalent of the Swiss Army knife, and 2007 data continues to support this," the report concludes.
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Investor's Business Daily - The vaults of the blogosphere opened wide last month after IBM spent nearly $4 billion to acquire four software, primarily middleware-related companies. Bloggers and journalists jockeyed to interpret Big Blue's big-picture strategy.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a set of consolidation and security software solutions designed to make the System z mainframe easier to use as the strategic platform of choice for running modern applications.
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&quot;Today we raised the bar on security for the entire PC industry,&quot; IBM Personal Computing Division General Manager Fran O&#39;Sullivan said.
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Companies are starting to work on improving the often-overlooked security capabilities of spreadsheets and BI tools -- especially after sensitive data was carried on spreadsheets running on several recently stolen computers.
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Following Microsoft's lead, software maker opts to issue fixes on a monthly timetable. But does that make customers more secure?
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IBM is warning customers of a flaw in its Tivoli Storage Manager backup and recovery software that could allow criminals to gain access to stored data.
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The software, developed by IBM&#39;s new Sensors and Actuators business unit, is designed to help businesses collect and act on data from RFID and other sensor-based technology.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that based on a new IDC report (1), the company achieved double-digit year-over-year revenue growth in the storage software market in Q1 2007, growing faster than H-P or Symantec.
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TechWeb - The software maker will provide a summary of planned security bulletins three days in advance.
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Ziff Davis - IBM will use the new devices, designed to make it more difficult for hackers to access a system's data, in its latest line of ThinkCentre PCs.
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IBM Corp. and four partners on Wednesday announced what they call a "major breakthrough" in identity management designed to help business and government agencies protect assets, including IT systems and physical facilities, from unauthorized users.
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Ziff Davis - In recent years, IBM made solid, secure desktop machines, but computers didn't improve the company's ability to sell IBM services and consulting.
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Software giant hopes to convince governments that its products are secure.
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Most large companies are struggling to protect themselves against security threats, a survey from security consultancy NetSec published today reveals.