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	The Russian Cybermafia: Boa Factory & CarderPlanet At the 2009 BlackHat Conference USA, researchers Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of Threat Research at McAfee, and J. Keith Mularski, Supervisory Special Agent for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Cyber Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit and the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance collaborated on a presentation entitled "Fighting Russian Cybercrime Mobsters: Report from the Trenches." Read More WEBCAST: Symantec Corporation Internet Security Threat Report XVI How did security risks and responsibilities change in 2010? What did your peers experience and what do the exposures mean to you in 2011? Attend the webcast "Security Today and Tomorrow: Symantec Discusses the Security Landscape" to learn results of the 16th Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Register today. In this Issue Microsoft warns of hack attempt on Windows Live, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla Does RSA SecurID have a U.S gov't-authorized back door? GoDaddy: We're ready to secure .com names with DNSSEC McAfee to buy database security vendor Sentrigo SCADA vulnerabilities prompt US government warning The RSA Breach: Lessons Learned for Enterprise Organizations WHITE PAPER: CA Next-Generation IAM Traditional IAM does not ensure the protection required for adequate security nor does it provide the flexibility needed today. Next-generation IAM enables IT to better control and secure identities and their access rights and goes further by controlling how sensitive information is communicated. Read Now Microsoft warns of hack attempt on Windows Live, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla Microsoft issued a warning today that nine fraudulent digital certificates were issued by root certificate authority, Comodo Group. Although the certificates were quickly revoked, their initial release still poses a threat to browser users, including users of Internet Explorer. This is not a security flaw in Microsoft software, the company says, but it released a security update for Windows all... Read More Does RSA SecurID have a U.S gov't-authorized back door? Does the RSA SecurID two-token authentication system include a back door that was built in at the request of the U.S. government in exchange for letting RSA export SecurID? Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Stay Ahead of Data Protection Challenges If you still yearn for an infrastructure that can handle unpredictable data growth and enable you to enhance service levels, while ensuring data protection, read this ESG white paper. Learn how EMC is helping businesses completely transform their data protection processes. Read more now. Read now GoDaddy: We're ready to secure .com names with DNSSEC With more than 47 million domain names under management, GoDaddy has a huge DNS infrastructure that it has upgraded to support the emerging Internet security standard known as DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions. Read More McAfee to buy database security vendor Sentrigo Intel's McAfee unit is the latest major security vendor to move to buy a maker of tools to protect databases. 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 SCADA vulnerabilities prompt US government warning A flurry of software vulnerabilities found in a variety of industrial control systems has prompted vendors to begin developing patches, following a warning by the U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT). Read More The RSA Breach: Lessons Learned for Enterprise Organizations The folks at RSA called me the other day to discuss what they could about the breach and what they are telling customers. As far as the breach goes, RSA didn't tell me anything new. The breach is being classified as an APT and RSA is working with law enforecement authorities in an ongoing investigation so it is not ready to disclose any details. 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. MOST-READ STORIES U.S. Patent Office finds Google Doodle dandy Linux Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is "bogus" Google funds tools to expose gov't attempts to shut down 'Net First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 performance lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9 Industry split on data center network standards On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all Want to get ahead in IT? Make yourself uncomfortable Does RSA SecurID have a U.S. gov't-authorized back door? Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder
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