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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Cisco sets the bar for mobile security

Apple patches unused Pwn2Own bug, 55 others in Mac OS | US slowly, very slowly oozes rare earth assault

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Cisco sets the bar for mobile security
Cisco has been a leader in remote access VPNs since 1999, and its latest release, the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution, will make both end users and network managers very happy, despite a few rough parts. Read More


WEBCAST: IBM

Malware is Everywhere
Get up to speed on the proliferation of security issues and hear about new techniques that combine IBM Rational AppScan and Internet Security Systems (ISS) technologies to scan and identify unwanted, embedded malware. View Now

WHITE PAPER: HP

Securing Virtualized Data Centers
Understand the real need for security solutions that can address the reality of expanding virtualization. You will also learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework allows organizations to gain control of the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement. Read Now

Apple patches unused Pwn2Own bug, 55 others in Mac OS
Apple Monday issued patches for 56 Snow Leopard bugs, most of which can be exploited to hijack user machines. Read More

US slowly, very slowly oozes rare earth assault
Japan earthquake, rare earth mining increase could change landscape for USSometimes when you are so far behind in a particular game of strategy, it's ok to fallback, regroup and slowly reevaluate your plan of attack     . Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell

Defending the Assault on Your Data
Learn how turning to outside help, specifically designed for small and midsized businesses, can affordably provide the protection you need. It's just one of the resources, along with expert Webcasts and IDG security survey results, you'll find in this data security KnowledgeVault. Learn more.

NASA star-gazer satellite recovers from 144-hour network glitch
NASA Kepler recovers from "safe-mode" event that took it away from its mission of finding planetsThere was likely a pretty big sigh of relief at NASA's Ames Research Center this week as the group' star satellite Kepler, recovered from a glitch that took it offline for 144 hours. Read More

Student used spyware to steal passwords, change grades
A former high school senior from Orange County, California, has pleaded guilty to charges that he installed spyware on school computers in order to boost his grades. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA

Defending Against Insider Threats
Organizations must accept the reality that insider threats are no longer an abstract concept. This paper explains the factors that are increasing the insider threat and details a proactive approach that leverages identity and access management to reduce risk and improve compliance. Learn More

Tall tales and the Duck test
Tall tales do the online rounds all the time and the DoE's letter isn't what a lot of people believe. Read More

Identity problems -- speed bump or brick wall?
So far it hasn't been a great year for identity and those in the business of identity. Read More

Man charged with hiring pump-and-dump spam botnet
A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a spam-spewing botnet of hacked computers. Read More

Berlin court rules Street View doesn't invade privacy
Google won a civil lawsuit in Germany lodged by a woman who contended its roving camera cars that shoot photographs for Street View violated her privacy. Read More



GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here.

SLIDESHOWS

Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs
Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free.

First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5.

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