Top security nightmares: Privately owned iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices

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	Top security nightmares: Privately owned iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices IPhones, iPads and other employee-owned mobile gear are the most risky devices that can be connected to corporate networks, according to a new survey by ISACA, an international user group devoted to providing benchmarks and guidance for technology best practices. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Oracle BI Foundation Suite delivers the broadest end to end BI functionality from reporting, dashboards, scorecards, scenario modeling, forecasting to ad-hoc analysis. Register Today! In this Issue 5 top social media security threats 12 great geeky dates More malware apps sneak into Google Market Lockheed Martin acknowledges 'significant' cyberattack 8 security considerations for IPv6 deployment Checklist for a successful security assessment Mac scareware gang evades Apple's new anti-malware defenses Memory encryption breakthrough claimed by NC State researchers New malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected WEBCAST: Oracle How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today! 5 top social media security threats Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn increasingly are being used by enterprises to engage with customers, build their brands and communicate information to the rest of the world. Read More 12 great geeky dates From Harry Potter roller coasters to experiencing weightlessness to your local arcade Read More More malware apps sneak into Google Market More malware targeting Google Android devices but pretending to be legit apps managed to sneak into Google Market over the long holiday weekend, and Google did take steps to yank them, according to a mobile security firm. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more. Lockheed Martin acknowledges 'significant' cyberattack Lockheed Martin Saturday night acknowledged that it its information systems network had been the target of a "significant and tenacious attack," but said that its security team detected the intrusion "almost immediately and took aggressive actions to protect all systems and data." Read More 8 security considerations for IPv6 deployment Now that we're out of IPv4 allocations, it's time to get serious about adopting the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6. Read More Checklist for a successful security assessment A security assessment is a request to analyze the risk of an IT solution. The request is initiated by a CISO (Chief Security Officer) or ISO (Information Security Officer) within a corporation. It is used to make sure that security concerns are met before changes are made to the information technology infrastructure. There are foundation plans which evaluate the state of new applications or infrastructure. Or there are incremental plans that address changes to the foundation plan. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Brute Force Protection for Web Applications Both Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Brute Force Attacks have existed for many years, and many network devices tout the ability to withstand them. However, most of today's DoS attacks target layer 7 (L7) by overwhelming applications with seemingly valid requests and Brute Force programs can send more than one million attempts per second. Learn More! Mac scareware gang evades Apple's new anti-malware defenses The gang responsible for a month-long plague of fake Mac security software has already updated their "scareware" to evade defenses Apple put in place late Tuesday, a security company confirmed today. Read More Memory encryption breakthrough claimed by NC State researchers Researchers at North Carolina State University claim they've achieved a breakthrough in how encryption can be used in technology called non-volatile main memory, which is seen as an eventual replacement for conventional dynamic random-access memory. Read More New malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected One in every 20 Windows PCs whose users turned to Microsoft for cleanup help were infected with malware, Microsoft said this week. Read More
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