Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad

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	Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance, saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated. You investigate and find that not only is your software illegal, it was sold to you by a company secretly owned and operated by your own IT systems administrator, a trusted employee for seven years. When you start digging into the admin's activities, you find a for-pay porn Web site he's been running on one of your corporate servers. Then you find that he's downloaded 400 customer credit card numbers from your e-commerce server. And here's the worst part: He's the only one with the administrative passwords. Think it can't happen? It did. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? You've heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. 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In this Issue The Mac App Store's hottest productivity apps Feds charge professed White Hat hackers in breach of AT&T iPad customer data Library system dumps MPLS with cheaper DSL, cable services Sprint adds $10 monthly data charge to new smartphone users Open source status report reveals good health and profits Facebook halts controversial sharing feature for now As PC Virus Turns 25, New Worry Emerges: Attack Toolkits Study: Cloud breaches show need for stronger authentication Facebook movie "The Social Network" cleans up at Golden Globes Policy disputes, uncertainties pose safety risks for NASA WEBCAST: Cisco Mobile Powerplay: Secure, High Performance, Unified The mobile revolution is here—and here to stay. iPhone, iPad, Droid--employees bring their mobile devices into the workplace, and they want access to personal and professional information. This brings a new set of concerns for IT and the business: IT needs to ensure that the corporate network and the access remains secure. Register Now The Mac App Store's hottest productivity apps A rundown of the most popular free and paid productivity apps on the Mac App Store. Read More Feds charge professed White Hat hackers in breach of AT&T iPad customer data Professed White Hat hackers face federal criminal charges for grabbing the e-mail addresses of 114,000 AT&T 3G customers who use iPads. Read More Library system dumps MPLS with cheaper DSL, cable services The Sno-Isle, Wash., public library system expects to save $400,000 this year by yanking its MPLS network and replacing it with multiple, less expensive broadband connections that include consumer DSL, cable service and even dark fiber. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel The Problem with Data Warehousing Tackle the most complex analytic challenges and glean insight from vast amounts of data. Learn how a columnar-based, massively parallel processing analytic database can provide high performance analytics against complex SQL workloads the most challenging analytic queries. Read now! Sprint adds $10 monthly data charge to new smartphone users Sprint Nextel will add a $10 per month Premium Data add-on charge to all newly activated smartphones beginning on Jan. 30. Read More Open source status report reveals good health and profits Over the last 15 years I have been an avid user and "developer" (actually more of a facilitator) of open source software. 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 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 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 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 Facebook movie "The Social Network" cleans up at Golden Globes "The Social Network," the blockbuster film based on the story of the Facebook social media site, made the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony absolutely geeky this year by winning four major categories. Read More Policy disputes, uncertainties pose safety risks for NASA Perhaps 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
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