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	Red Hat tops list of hottest IT security certifications Interest in IT security certifications is booming, as more U.S. companies tighten up the protection surrounding their critical network infrastructure and as a growing number of employees view security expertise as recession proof. Read More WEBCAST: Splunk SIM Overview and Market Drivers Forrester Senior Analyst, John Kindervag provides an overview of what issues are driving SIM adoption and some of the key capabilities end users should look for when evaluating a SIM solution. View now! In this Issue Microsoft Patch Tuesday halts two live attacks but offers no help for others FTC: Springsteen fans screwed by TicketMaster Web deception get refunds Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches? Ultimate Privacy: How to Disappear, Erase Digital Footprints & Vanish Without a Trace Boeing teams with Space Adventures to offer spaceflight trips NSA product accreditations lag behind IT security advances Cloud providers working on ways to prove they warrant trust Adobe Flash Zero Day Puts Android Smartphones at Risk Microsoft patches Windows XP flaw that aided Stuxnet worm 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 Microsoft Patch Tuesday halts two live attacks but offers no help for others Julie Bort: Patch Tuesday has arrived and it is filled with bad news. Two of the nine patches fix problems currently exploited in the wild, and several high profile holes have been left open. Read More FTC: Springsteen fans screwed by TicketMaster Web deception get refunds The Federal Trade Commission today said it mailed claim forms to 1,018 consumers who are eligible for refunds because they allegedly were steered from the Ticketmaster website to its ticket resale website TicketsNow while buying tickets to attend 2009 Bruce Springsteen concerts.  Ticketmaster and its affiliates agreed to pay refunds to some of the concertgoers to settle FTC charges that they used... Read More Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches? Database security vendor AppSec says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins Read More E-GUIDE: IBM eGuide: A New Look at BI Craft better IT strategies, build new, targeted products and achieve operational savings. These are just some of the benefits derived from business intelligence (BI) software. This expert guide from CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld and Network World provide an overview of recent BI trends and how to leverage its most powerful features. Learn more. Ultimate Privacy: How to Disappear, Erase Digital Footprints & Vanish Without a Trace In this digital age as everyone is being tracked by websites, cell phones and loyalty programs, privacy seems to be a hard commodity to hold onto. Privacy expert Frank M. Ahearn is the "Dear Abby" of disappearing; he can help you regain your privacy by teaching you to poof and fall off the grid. Read More Boeing teams with Space Adventures to offer spaceflight trips Aerospace giant Boeing and outer space tourism proprietors Space Adventures teamed up today to offer low Earth orbit (LEO) flight services onboard Boeing's future commercial crew spacecraft. Read More NSA product accreditations lag behind IT security advances The National Security Agency wants to use commercially-built security products and the latest virtualization software. But the slow pace of getting products certified through NSA channels and the lightening fast pace of change in the IT industry is causing national-security heartburn. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Small Business Owners: Ensure Business Continuity Read this analyst Whitepaper for a sound data protection strategy. Read Now. Cloud providers working on ways to prove they warrant trust Finding a way to verify security within cloud provider networks is essential but won't be easy, a cloud security expert told attendees at the Security Standard conference. Read More Adobe Flash Zero Day Puts Android Smartphones at Risk Adobe revealed a critical zero day flaw in Adobe Flash--the second in less than a week. The vulnerability extends even to Adobe Flash on the Android mobile OS, supporting at least one of the reasons laid out by Steve Jobs for not allowing Flash on the iPhone and iPad. Read More Microsoft patches Windows XP flaw that aided Stuxnet worm Microsoft Tuesday patched a critical Windows XP vulnerability that aided attacks based on the Stuxnet worm by letting attackers gain remote access through the operating system's print spooler service. Read More
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