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	FTC takes out notorious porn- and botnet-spewing ISP The Federal Trade Commission today got a judge to effectively kill off  the Internet Service Provider 3FN who the agency said specialized in spam, porn, botnets, phishing and all manner of malicious Web content.  Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue The Future of Endpoint Security US looking for technology to quash malicious insider threats Microsoft warns of bug in 64-bit Windows 7 Facebook fixing embarrassing privacy bug Nanotech will be focus for future criminal hackers Cloud-based identity management gets a boost Google Wi-Fi Data Snooping: An FAQ LifeLock CEO said to be victim of identity theft 13 times Symantec to buy VeriSign's security unit for $1.3B, reports say AusCert 2010: Siloed security leaves departments defaced WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! The Future of Endpoint Security If you do some research on endpoint security you'll quickly read one analyst or another's claim that antivirus software is dead and that there is a pressing need for some new model like cloud security services, white listing, black listing, virtual desktops, etc. Antivirus is dead? Hmm, I wonder if these analysts have been following the financial results of Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, Trend... Read More US looking for technology to quash malicious insider threats Because so-called trusted insiders are a massive threat to the security of corporate and military resources, it may take an industrial strength technology to mitigate the issue.  Read More Microsoft warns of bug in 64-bit Windows 7 Microsoft today warned users of a vulnerability in the 64-bit versions of Wndows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be used to hijack systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Facebook fixing embarrassing privacy bug Facebook is fixing a Web programming bug that could have allowed hackers to alter profile pages or make restricted information public. Read More Nanotech will be focus for future criminal hackers Criminal hackers once rejoiced in manipulating the new digital phone systems in the 1960s and 1970s; then they moved on to using modems and hacking into mainframes in the 1970s and 1980s; then they exploited the new local area network technology and the burgeoning Internet in the 1980s. Malware writers moved from boot-sector viruses on floppy disks in the 1980s to file-infector viruses and then to macro viruses in the 1990s and vigorously exploited worms and Trojans for botnets in the recent decade. [See "Brief History of Computer Crime".] Read More Cloud-based identity management gets a boost Giving network managers a way to provide access, single sign-on and provisioning controls in cloud-computing environments got a boost today from both Novell and a much smaller competitor, start-up Symplified. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Troubleshooting Application Problems This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here! Google Wi-Fi Data Snooping: An FAQ Google is cleaning up its mess after the company says it mistakenly collecting browsing data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as part of its Street View project. The search giant said on Monday that it had deleted all Wi-Fi data collected in Ireland at the request of the Irish Data Protection Authority. The destruction of incorrectly obtained data in Ireland was confirmed by iSec Patners Inc., an independent security consulting firm. Read More LifeLock CEO said to be victim of identity theft 13 times A CEO who publicly posted his Social Security number on billboards and TV commercials as part of a campaign to promote his company's credit monitoring services was the victim of identity theft at least 13 times, a news report says. Read More Symantec to buy VeriSign's security unit for $1.3B, reports say Security vendor Symantec Corp. is reported to be close to buying Internet infrastructure services vendor VeriSign Inc.s security business for $1.3 billion. Read More AusCert 2010: Siloed security leaves departments defaced The Federal Government should centralise control of IT across agencies and departments to ward-off hackers, according to a US state information security expert. Read More
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