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	Mozilla patches 10 bugs in older Firefox Mozilla on Tuesday patched 10 vulnerabilities in its older browsers, marking the end of security support for 2008's Firefox 3.0. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! In this Issue Cloud security's seven deadly sins Feel like you're being watched at work? You may be right NASA Mars satellite snaps first public picked photos Maximum Security: 2010 Internet Security Suites Consumers warned about smartphone data loss Why ECPA Should Make You Think Twice about the Cloud McAfee: 'Amateur' malware not used in Google attacks Concern over surge in banking Trojans Shortened URL Security Threat on Twitter Overblown? Adobe Could Be Your Security Weakest Link Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs WHITE PAPER: Adobe Collaboration Study: user Trends, IT Opportunities A recent survey of knowledge workers shows they still rely on familiar collaboration tools such as email and telephone calls, but desire new ways to be more productive. See all the results and find out how IT can embrace current work habits and easily adapt as new technologies emerge. Read More Cloud security's seven deadly sins A security expert warns organizations making a foray into cloud computing may know familiar terms like multi-tenancy and virtualization, but that doesn't mean they understand everything about putting applications in the cloud. Read More Feel like you're being watched at work? You may be right Social network monitoring and IP cameras are two ways organizations are keeping a lid on sensitive data and property. Read More NASA Mars satellite snaps first public picked photos NASA today said it took eight high-resolution photos of Mars that were chosen through a public suggestion box the space agency put up in January.  Read More WHITE PAPER: Neustar Best Practices for Monitoring Your Cloud Join Neustar and NetworkWorld to learn how to manage your holistic ecosystem effectively and learn five creative strategies for managing the performance challenges inherent in today's world. View Now Maximum Security: 2010 Internet Security Suites The year 2009 was a bad one for PC security: Online attackers created more malware last year than in the previous 20 years combined. Clearly, this means that in the realm of computer security, the rules have changed, and you can no longer rely solely on traditional definition-based antivirus software and firewalls to protect your PC. Instead, to meet this new breed of threats, you need a new breed of security. Read More Consumers warned about smartphone data loss The iPhone and the Blackberry is as big a threat to personal data security as the home PC, a new government-backed campaign plans to tell people. Read More Why ECPA Should Make You Think Twice about the Cloud The Digital Due Process coalition is pushing Congress to modernize privacy laws in the United States. The coalition--comprised of technology companies and special interest groups, including Microsoft, Google, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), eBay, and others--feels that existing privacy regulations do not adequately protect data in the digital era, and could stop businesses from embracing cloud computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! McAfee: 'Amateur' malware not used in Google attacks A misstep by McAfee security researchers apparently helped confuse the security research community about the hackers who targeted Google and many other major corporations in cyber attacks last year. Read More Concern over surge in banking Trojans Banking trojans made up nearly two thirds (61 percent) of all new malware identified during the first quarter of 2010, says PandaLabs. Read More Shortened URL Security Threat on Twitter Overblown? Concern over the danger of shortened URLs may be overblown, according to a report released Wednesday by a researcher with security firm Zscaler. Read More Adobe Could Be Your Security Weakest Link Google and Adobe announced a cozy new partnership--combining Flash directly into the Chrome Web browser rather than requiring an additional plug-in. While inherent functionality is better than having to find, install, and update plugins, Adobe is also a prime target for malicious code and may weaken Chrome's security posture. Read More Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer said today. Read More
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