Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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Android now most attacked mobile OS, McAfee reports
Out of about 1,200 mobile malware samples that McAfee Labs collected and analyzed, about 60% were aimed at Google's Android operating system. Read More


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Messaging and Web Security Best Practices for 2011
In this white paper, Osterman Research discusses how the daily occurrence of malware within organizations has become decidedly worse over the past several years. Read More

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Why Customers Love VIPRE Business
Selecting an antivirus solution for your organization is an important decision. VIPRE Antivirus Business is a high-performance solution that delivers fast, memory-efficient endpoint security with all the necessary functionality you need and nothing you don't — ensuring an optimal end user performance experience. Read now!

Cloud Growth Prompts Shift in Enterprise Security Strategies
As lower costs drive businesses to use cloud technologies and services more and more, businesses need to rethink their security programs to make sure they take the new architecture into consideration. Read More

Cisco aims for a go-anywhere router
Cisco's new ISR 819 mobile router with GPS is good for use in truck fleets, tollbooths and ATMs, but can also serve as a conventional router in remote offices. Read More

Yale warns 43,000 about 10-month-long data breach
Yale University has notified about 43,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly available via Google search for about 10 months. Read More

Palo Alto PA-5060 is one fast firewall
Palo Alto's new firewall delivered performance 10 times faster than when we tested it in 2008, and came close to its rated capacity of 20Gbps in firewall-only mode, according to Network World's exclusive Clear Choice testing. Read More


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Read the white paper and learn how IBM Tivoli® Security Management for z/OS® can safeguard your business—and deliver rapid ROI. Read Now

Security firms knock heads over Shady RAT hacks
McAfee and Kaspersky labs are butting heads about just how advanced the long-term Shady RAT hacks were, despite the fact that they were effective for a long time. Read More

Stronger IPsec VPN Configurations Needed
Businesses using IPSec need to tune up their configurations to avoid common problems such as poorly executed shared secrets, NAT problems and weak encryption. ... Read More

How the CSA Is Working to Solve Cloud Security Problems
The Cloud Security Alliance doesn't aspire to be a standards body but does look for ways to promote best practices around which users, IT auditors, cloud and security solutions providers can agree. Read More

Future TSA: A booming number of secret watch lists
When the TSA was asked to provide legal reasons that definitely spelled out why physically invasive patdowns are legal, without any probable cause, not one TSA person had an answer. There was no legal documentation for enhanced patdowns other than it serves "the essential administrative purpose." Read More


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What Your Network Isn't Telling You
Are your network tools outdated? This Cascade "chalk talk" shows how to monitor today's network with support for virtualization and cloud and: - Behavioral analytics that learns how your network behaves - Network drill-down to quickly spot root causes of problems - Discovery and dependency mapping of IT assets Learn more!

Facebook data collection under fire in Germany again
A German privacy group is calling for organizations to close their Facebook fan pages and remove "Like" buttons from their websites, arguing that Facebook harvests data in violation of German and European Union law. Read More

The mobile security aspects of VDI
Will virtual desktop infrastructure products and services become a component of the mobile device management MDM market, too? It's possible. Read More

Portland General Electric tries smart security monitoring
Why Portland General Electric deployed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology and what they've been able to accomplish as a result. Read More

Ukraine arrests four in carding scam
Ukraine's security service SBU says it has arrested four people for allegedly creating fake payment cards with stolen information in an operation estimated to have caused $20 million in damages. Read More

Health insurer encrypts all stored data
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, responding to the theft of 57 hard drives in 2009, has completed a $6 million project to encrypt all of its stored data. Read More

Browsing and privacy: How not to get tracked
Computer users who value their privacy are in an ever-escalating battle with Web sites and advertisers over how much information browsers should supply about browsing habits and histories. Read More



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