Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Why trust hotel chain with 3 data breaches in a year?

Why 41 Percent of You Would Fail a PCI Audit | RSA Conference 2010 product highlights (slideshow)

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Why trust a hotel chain that's had three data breaches in a year?
Never mind three strikes and you're out. How about three strikes and I'm not even thinking about checking in to your hotel?Granted, even the most security-conscious of companies can be victimized by hackers, but when you've had to cop to a third data breach in less than a year you'll have to forgive prospective customers for looking elsewhere for shelter. Or paying in cash. Read More


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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility
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A Holistic Approach to Compliance Makes Business Sense
IT management has tremendous incentive to figure out a new, more effective and comprehensive approach to meeting information security and compliance goals. This webcast will explore those pain points, the solutions, and the best practices organizations should consider to make strategic information security an enabler of business value. Learn More!

Why 41 Percent of You Would Fail a PCI Audit
Miscellaneous news bytes from the RSA 2010 press room: QSAs tell Ponemon Institute that 41 percent of companies would bomb their PCI security audit; hackers industrialize their sinister revolution and VeriSign opens a new compatibility lab. Read More

RSA Conference 2010 product highlights (slideshow)
A range of vendors chose RSA Conference 2010 to unveil their latest products Read More

Move Data to a Safer, Separate Partition in Windows 7
Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Read More

Ex-Mozilla security chief takes job at Apple
Former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has been hired by Apple. Read More


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Connecting to Better Customer Service
Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here.

Sony blames leap year glitch for PlayStation troubles
Sony has restored service to the PlayStation Network by resolving a glitch in the internal clock of some PlayStation 3 consoles that recognized 2010 as a leap year and wrongly added a Feb. 29 to the clock. Read More

Microsoft: Don't press F1 key in Windows XP
Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE). Read More

Data theft creates notification nightmare for BlueCross
A break-in one evening last October at a shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is proving expensive for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Read More

Microsoft warns of new bug affecting IE users
Steer clear of the F1 key while surfing the Web, at least for a little while. Read More


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WAN Optimization Can Multiply IT Efficiencies
Data center consolidation, regulatory compliance and a more distributed environment are some of the IT initiatives making a comprehensive and robust disaster recovery plan more important than ever before. The Enterprise Strategy Group highlights trends in DR, the role of virtualization and the impact of WAN optimization. Learn more.

Can Adobe Stop the Hate?
The way IT security pros see it, Adobe is the monster they can't live with anymore. But they really can't live without it, either. Read More

Verizon shares framework to gather, analyze security incident data
Verizon today released its Verizon Incident Sharing framework, a move aimed at helping enterprises consistently analyze and share incident data, whether internally or with each other. Read More

EMC, Intel, VMware team to secure private clouds
EMC, Intel and VMware are teaming up to improve security and regulatory compliance in cloud computing with a proof of concept to be demonstrated at this week's RSA Conference in San Francisco. Read More

F5, Infoblox team on DNS security
Infoblox and F5 have integrated their network appliances to make it easier for corporations to deploy DNSSEC on their Web sites. Read More

Four indicted for $25M online ticket fraud scheme
Four men have been indicted for illegally buying and reselling tickets to major concerts, a Rose Bowl game and tapings of the television show Dancing with the Stars. Read More



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