| Cisco warns of four WLAN controller vulnerabilities Cisco WLAN security alert warns of four vulnerabilities affecting all of Cisco’s wireless LAN controllers, including the Catalyst 6500 and 7600 wireless modules, with software version 4.2 or higher. GAO finds more security problems in the Treasury Department Data used to fight money-laundering and funding for terrorists is at risk because of significant security weaknesses within the networks used by a crime-fighting arm of the U.S. Treasury Department, according to a government study. A New Internet Attack: Parking Tickets Trojan-pushing parking tickets? Yes, really. The Internet Storm Center, which tracks Internet attacks and threats, documented a case in Grand Forks, North Dakota where someone put yellow fliers on cars that claimed to ticket a parking violation. The fliers named a Web site that purportedly had pictures of your supposed violation. Social Engineering: Anatomy of a Hack As the founder of Lares, a Colorado-based security consultancy, social-engineering expert Chris Nickerson is often asked by clients to conduct penetration testing of their on-sight security. Nickerson leads a team which conducts security risk assessments in a method he refers to as Red Team Testing. Watch Nickerson and his team pull off a $24,000 heist in a video. SMB Security: 5 Bright Ideas Adam Hansen is that rare bird in the small to midsize business (SMB) realm: He is a CSO. Hansen heads up security for Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, an 800-attorney law firm in Chicago. Removing admin rights stymies 92% of Microsoft's bugs Nine of out 10 critical bugs reported by Microsoft last year could have been made moot, or at least made less dangerous, if people ran Windows without administrative rights, a developer of enterprise rights management software claimed Tuesday. Sunbelt pioneers new antivirus technology U.S. company Sunbelt Software is set to become one of the first antivirus vendors to embrace a promising but as yet little-used new technique for malware detection known as 'file emulation'. FBI warns of money mule scams The job looks pretty good at first blush: "Become our partner and earn $2,000 or more!" New Firefox release fixes critical security bugs Mozilla developers released the latest version of their Firefox browser Tuesday, version 3.0.6, which fixes several security bugs in the software. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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