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	FBI/IC3 alert says phishing attacks on phone customers is rising again Phishing attacks coming from fraudsters acting like your phone company are again on the upswing according to a new warning from the FBI and its partner agency the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Keys To Boosting PSO Success Professional services organizations (PSOs) strive to help their clients' businesses run more smoothly. But what are they doing to make their own businesses run more efficiently? One method for success with proven results: deploying technology, from vendors such as SAP, that delivers both internal efficiency and external results. Learn how to deliver a higher percentage of on-time, on-budget project completions, boost revenue and customer retention, and ultimately improve profit margins. In this Issue How to beat hackers exploiting the latest IE zero-day bug Siemens patches Heartbleed in popular SCADA system DeRodes steps into breach as Target's new CIO How one woman kept her pregnancy a secret from online advertisers 6 free network vulnerability scanners FCC targets costs, security and mobile communications with IT upgrade plans Lawyers ask US Supreme Court to limit mobile phone searches Why facial recognition isn't the way of the future...yet 5 Things You Need to Know About Cybersecurity Insurance WHITE PAPER: McAfee Streamlining Response and Reaction to Attacks This SANS white paper explores how to weave together and correlate information from disparately managed systems and bring visibility to their behavior with accurate, actionable reporting. View Now>> How to beat hackers exploiting the latest IE zero-day bug Companies have several options for defending against a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer and experts say businesses should get started immediately. Read More Siemens patches Heartbleed in popular SCADA system Siemens released a security update to address the Heartbleed vulnerability in SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture, a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that's used in a large number of industries to operate processes, machines and production flows. Read More DeRodes steps into breach as Target's new CIO Target has named veteran IT executive Bob DeRodes as its CIO and is tasking him with taking the $73 billion retailer in a new technology direction following the mammoth data breach that it disclosed late last year. The breach resulted in information being stolen from 70 million payment card users and prompted the resignation of CIO Beth Jacob. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Managing BitLocker With SafeGuard Enterprise This whitepaper explains how Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise secures your data wherever it's stored; and how it allows you to support diverse platforms and encryption products including BitLocker. Learn More How one woman kept her pregnancy a secret from online advertisers By now, the story of Target's role in informing a Minnesota father of his teenage daughter's pregnancy has become sort of an urban legend about the risks of data-based advertising. Read More 6 free network vulnerability scanners Though you may know and follow basic security measures on your own when installing and managing your network and websites, you'll never be able to keep up with and catch all the vulnerabilities by yourself. Read More FCC targets costs, security and mobile communications with IT upgrade plans The Federal Communications Commission's in-house IT infrastructure has to modernize, in order to save money and become more efficient, according to FCC CIO David Bray. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Compose a software Management Symphony Keeping track of your organization's software is easy with effective software management solutions from CDW. View the videos in our software solutions channel View Now Lawyers ask US Supreme Court to limit mobile phone searches Police shouldn't be able to search suspects' mobile phones at the time of arrest because of the huge amounts of private information now stored on those devices, lawyers for two criminal defendants argued before U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday. Read More Why facial recognition isn't the way of the future...yet It's the how the future is meant to be, isn't it? The good guys need to find a bad guy in a crowd of people, so they start scanning the environment with a camera that is equipped with facial recognition technology. Seconds later, they scan a face that's a positive match with an entry in their criminal database and bam, they've smoked him out. Read More 5 Things You Need to Know About Cybersecurity Insurance Cybersecurity insurance transfers some of the financial risk of a security breach to the insurer. But it doesn't do a good job of covering the reputation damage and business downturn that can be triggered by a security breach. Read More
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