Malicious activity alert: Anonymous hack-school grads come online in 30 days

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	Malicious activity alert: Anonymous hack-school grads come online in 30 days In about a month the first graduates of the new Anonymous hacking school could start having an impact on the frequency of cybercrime. "You could have a quarter of a million people who could be educated on how to hack, not professionally, but enough to be significant," says Karim Hijazi, CEO of security start-up Unveillance. He bases that projected impact on the number of followers that the hacking group LulzSec acquired on Twitter during its 50-day spree - 285,550. When LulzSec disbanded last week, its members announced formation of the school. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study: Boston College Read this case study to learn how Boston College has reduced complexity of the backup process for over 1,700 seats by centralizing management. Read now In this Issue Despite controversy, federal, state wiretaps on the rise Traditional host-based anti-virus software losing luster? Apathy, law enforcement complications keep cybercrime hopping Worm hits popular Chinese Twitter-like service E-Verify needs to be improved, Obama says Al-Qaida communications knocked offline, says expert Microsoft clarifies MBR rootkit removal advice Abine updates Firefox add-on to block Web tracking Researcher: Threats from zero-day exploits overhyped WHITE PAPER: IBM Leveraging security from the Cloud Cloud computing is a flexible, cost-effective and proven deliv-ery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. This whitepaper discusses the who, what, when, why and how of cloud-based security services. Read Now Despite controversy, federal, state wiretaps on the rise While their over-use is controversial federal and state requests for court permission to intercept or wiretap electronic communications increased 34% in 2010 over 2009 with California, New York, and New Jersey accounting for 68% of all wire taps approved by state judges. Read More Traditional host-based anti-virus software losing luster? Traditional host-based anti-malware packages just aren't that useful anymore, according to some companies that find it either doesn't protect against the main dangers they face from the Web or it simply doesn't run well in virtualized computer environments. Read More Apathy, law enforcement complications keep cybercrime hopping General public apathy and collaboration with the law enforcement community assure that cybercrimes of all sorts will continue to rise. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! Worm hits popular Chinese Twitter-like service A popular Twitter-like service in China with 140 million users was hit by a worm earlier this week that resembles past attacks that infected Twitter and MySpace, according to a security analyst. Read More E-Verify needs to be improved, Obama says The Internet-based E-Verify employment eligibility system can be an important enforcement tool in the fight against illegal immigration, but only if it can be made error-free and reliable, President Obama said on Wednesday. Read More Al-Qaida communications knocked offline, says expert Terror group al-Qaida has been left without a trusted operational channel on the Internet for distributing its media and propaganda, according to a terrorism expert. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC The Changing Role of Network Management Read how new challenges in IT like virtualization and cloud computing are changing the role of Network Managers, who are now required to leverage automation and integrated solutions even further to adapt to these changes. Learn how EMC Ionix Network Solutions help Network Managers overcome these challenges. Read now Microsoft clarifies MBR rootkit removal advice Microsoft has clarified the advice it gave users whose Windows PCs are infected with a new, sophisticated rootkit that buries itself on the hard drive's boot sector. Read More Abine updates Firefox add-on to block Web tracking Abine, a company that specializes in Web privacy, has upgraded a Firefox extension that can more precisely block ad networks and websites from tracking users' behavior. Read More Researcher: Threats from zero-day exploits overhyped Computers lacking patches for long-known vulnerabilities potentially face more of a hacking risk than from zero-day exploits, or attacks targeting vulnerabilities that haven't been publicly disclosed, according to new research from Secunia. Read More
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