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	Ever and anon When you spend a significant amount of time (in my case more than 15 years) enmeshed in a particular topic (e.g., identity management) some discussions (you might call them arguments) periodically arise with predictable regularity. That is, whenever new people are added to the discussion those evergreen topics will rise up once again. It happened in a discussion I was monitoring last week. 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 300,000 clients of umbilical cord blood bank at risk of ID theft 20 hot IT security issues Wordpress recovers from huge DDoS attack What constitutes defamation on Twitter? Rocker Courtney Love has an idea We need to ignite a Layer-1 revolution Beijing to track people's movements via their mobile phones Prison for four who ran credit card fraud market Secure best practices no proof against Stuxnet Cybercriminals targeting point-of-sale devices Germany identifies a secure way to deal with spam Lock down your mobile handheld devices for ultimate security Are you dressing the part for the security career you want? WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More 300,000 clients of umbilical cord blood bank at risk of ID theft Storage tapes lost to car break-in outside San Francisco data center The world's largest stem cell bank, Cord Blood Registry, has mailed data-breach warning letters to some 300,000 people after storage tapes and a laptop were stolen from an employee's car. The break-in occurred just before midnight on Dec. 13, 2010 outside of a private data center in San Francisco called 365 Main Street, according to a police report, yet at least some of those put at risk received... Read More 20 hot IT security issues From malware on Google's Android phones to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency trying to understand how stories or narratives impact security and human behavior, the security world certainly is never boring. Here we take a look at 20 security stories that have shaped the industry in the past few months. Read More Wordpress recovers from huge DDoS attack Politically motivated hackers are being blamed for a large Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) on the Wordpress blog management system that left many customers experiencing severe disruption on Tuesday. Read More What constitutes defamation on Twitter? Rocker Courtney Love has an idea Twitter rant to cost rocker $430,000Rocker Courtney Love has never been known for her shy, refined ways and today it seems one of her bad days when she went on a Twitter rant  will cost her $430,000. The case stemmed from a rant Love posted in 2009 against Dawn Simorangkir the designer of a fancy clothing line. Love allegedly owed her money and much online nastiness ensued. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Leveraging Big Data for Competitive Advantage The ability to navigate large data sets is giving companies new insights into their markets and delivering competitive advantage. This paper written by AMD Senior Fellow, Keith Lowery, introduces the main hardware and software concepts of the new trend called "Big Data". Read now! We need to ignite a Layer-1 revolution Egypt's revolution was heralded as a success story for social media services such as Twitter and Facebook. Western journalists fawned over every rare example of social media, ignoring the more mundane but far more nt communication services such as cellular phone calls and text messaging. The really interesting story out of Egypt, and more recently Libya, Iran and other places was the communications blackouts imposed by each regime. While the west focused on layer-7 technologies, the tyrants were smart enough to strike at the root of their citizens efforts: layer-1 physical layer connectivity for phones. Read More Beijing to track people's movements via their mobile phones China plans on tracking the movements of people in Beijing using their mobile phones, a measure that while aimed at relieving traffic congestion, could set off concerns over misuse. Read More Prison for four who ran credit card fraud market Four men who ran what U.K. police say was the largest English-language criminal forum for selling stolen credit card numbers and the tools to steal data were imprisoned for a combined total of more than 15 years, according to the Metropolitan Police. Read More Secure best practices no proof against Stuxnet A Tofino Security report shows that well-secured computer systems would still get infected with Stuxnet. Read More WEBCAST: Infoblox Automation Gives IT Network Stability On this webinar, IT staff at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will discuss how the hospital is using Infoblox network automation products to deliver "Life Critical" Network Uptime, augment current HIPAA strategies & simplify tasks. Register Now Cybercriminals targeting point-of-sale devices Point-of-sale payment processing devices for credit and debit cards are proving to be rich targets for cybercriminals due to lax security controls, particularly among small businesses, according to a report from Trustwave. Read More Germany identifies a secure way to deal with spam In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate their identity to stop address spoofing and simplify blocking. Read More Lock down your mobile handheld devices for ultimate security As corporations enable more and more true enterprise applications via mobile smart phones and tablets, the need for tight security on these devices will grow. Mobile Active Defense has a non-intrusive solution that mirrors in the mobile world what you've already built for your fixed environment. Read More Are you dressing the part for the security career you want? Do the clothes we wear set the stage for success or being stuck in our security careers? 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 20 awesome tech products at DEMO Build-your-own iPhone and Android apps, cloud services, photo tools and more on display at DEMO Spring 2011. Top 10 Chrome OS extensions Though Google is pitching it as an operating system for netbooks and lightweight notebooks, Chrome OS is essentially the Chrome Web browser bolted on top of a bare minimum version of Linux. The following extensions can improve the user experience of Chrome (OS or browser) to give you some of the functionality found in a traditional operating system. MOST-READ STORIES IPv6 on home routers and DSL/cable modems: FAIL Cisco, sources reveal data center next steps Tablet Tumble: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom 20 hot IT security issues Real life HAL 9000: computers reacting to human emotions? First look at Apple iPad 2: what's new, unchanged, still missing Open source expert takes on the hardest job at Microsoft iPad 2 both excites and frustrates business customers Google gives antiquated 404 page a makeover 4 reasons why Apple and its iPad still rule the tablet market
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