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	Real government identity cards It was perhaps serendipitous that the same week the brouhaha over The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) broke I had scheduled an interview with Jeff Nigriny. He's the CEO of Certipath, a company intimately involved in real government identity cards. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager A Forrester Study commissioned by Oracle. This paper details return-on-investment (ROI) calculations based on real customers' data, and guides you in computing cost savings with user provisioning. Use the model suggested in this report to design your implementation and measure results. Read now In this Issue As PC Virus Turns 25, New Worry Emerges: Attack Toolkits Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad Criminal charges filed for AT&T iPad attackers Policy disputes, uncertainties pose safety risks for NASA Study: Cloud breaches show need for stronger authentication Will electronic toll systems become terrorist targets? MPack, NeoSploit and Zeus top most notorious Web attack toolkit list Facebook halts controversial sharing feature for now WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Stop Fraudulent Transactions Learn how creative, iterative analysis detects and halts fraud in minutes, rather than hours or days by leveraging: • Massively Parallel Processing • Columnar database for faster responses • Schema-neutral, no tuning required • Built-in compression and encryption Read now! As PC Virus Turns 25, New Worry Emerges: Attack Toolkits 25 years ago, two brothers from Pakistan released the Brain Virus. Today, hackers can buy ready-made toolkits to launch malware attacks - and this trend should concern you. Read More Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos How to implement a data loss prevention strategy This paper guides IT professionals through the steps necessary to implement a practical data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. It starts off by quickly looking at what's driving data loss prevention, the consequences of data loss and how it can be comprehensively tackled using Sophos solutions. Read Now Criminal charges filed for AT&T iPad attackers The U.S. District Court of New Jersey files criminal charges against alleged attackers of AT&T-accessible iPads Read More Policy disputes, uncertainties pose safety risks for NASA NASA panel warns of a bumpy future for NASA's safety recordPerhaps for a moment - in those fleeting seconds after President Obama signed the space agency's 2011 budget -- NASA's immediate future seemed set. Read More WHITE PAPER: Phone Factor Keep Hackers Out: Out-of-Band Multi-Factor with Any Phone According to a leading analyst firm phone-based authentication will comprise 61% of the multi-factor authentication market by the year 2014. This paper will address the key drivers for this market shift away from security tokens and includes real-world case studies from organizations that have made the move to phone-based authentication. Learn More Study: Cloud breaches show need for stronger authentication The number of security breaches is rising as organizations increase their reliance on cloud-based services, collaboration tools and enabling users to access networks, Forrester says in a new report. Weak usernames and passwords are making matters worse. Read More Will electronic toll systems become terrorist targets? Weaknesses in 802.11p vehicular wireless networks could make them targets for terrorists seeking to wreak havoc on the nation's highways, according to a briefing scheduled this week at the Black Hat DC conference. Read More MPack, NeoSploit and Zeus top most notorious Web attack toolkit list About two-thirds of malicious Web activity can be traced back to botnets and exploit code built using popular attack toolkits like MPack and Zeus sold in the underground economy, according to a new Symantec report. Read More Facebook halts controversial sharing feature for now Facebook said Monday it will temporarily disable a controversial feature that allows application developers and third-party web sites to access the mobile phone numbers and addresses of certain users. Read More
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