Black Hat: System links your face to your Social Security number and other private things

	Advanced persistent threats force IT to rethink security priorities | DARPA software to spin "dumb" photos or video into intelligence gold
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	Black Hat: System links your face to your Social Security number and other private things Soon it will be practicable to take someone's photo on a smartphone and within minutes know their Social Security number and a range of other private data like their personal interests, sexual preference and credit status, researchers will tell the Black Hat security conference this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase The Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011 The Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011 features articles by industry experts, analysts and top executives on the latest mobile enterprise trends, real-world success stories, security requirements, device management, app development and more. Get a copy now, compliments of Sybase. Read More In this Issue Advanced persistent threats force IT to rethink security priorities DARPA software to spin "dumb" photos or video into intelligence gold FBI Eyeing Microsoft Technologies to Assist Law Enforcement LulzSec gets Google+ boot, but returns Check Point has sights set on 1Tbps firewall Zero-day vulnerability found in a Wordpress image utility Samsung Androids get first SSLVPN client Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software ACLU to Congress: Cancer of Gov't Secrecy Is Killing America WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Ponemon: Security of Cloud Computing Providers This report offers the cloud providers beliefs on the state of cloud security. In addition, it compares the findings from both reports, determining similarities and discrepancies between cloud computing users and providers. Learn More Advanced persistent threats force IT to rethink security priorities The biggest business challenge today, in the minds of many information security officers, is the stealthy online infiltration by attackers to steal valuable proprietary information. The reality, they say, is that these so-called "advanced persistent threats" are so rampant and unrelenting they are forcing IT to rethink network security. Read More DARPA software to spin "dumb" photos or video into intelligence gold If a picture is worth a thousand words, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) would like to make that about a billion with a new software intelligent program. Read More FBI Eyeing Microsoft Technologies to Assist Law Enforcement In dealing with how law enforcement must keep pace with technology, and the challenges represented by the ever-changing world of wireless devices, the FBI published Wireless Evolution [PDF]. It was originally published in the March 2011 Emerging Technologies Research Bulletin, but this FOIA publication on Secrecy News was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists. Read More WEBCAST: Cymphonix Gain Complete Control Over Internet Bound Traffic The Cymphonix Network Composer is the only network appliance that provides comprehensive clarity into all internet bound network traffic and simply powerful tools to manage that traffic with a holistic approach. Learn More Today! LulzSec gets Google+ boot, but returns Hacker group LulzSec ("the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense") has had its initial Google+ account nixed this week, though LulzSec has quickly and brashly re-emerged with a new one Read More Check Point has sights set on 1Tbps firewall Check Point Software has new, heavy-duty security gateway hardware for data centers and service providers, including one chassis that will grow to support a 1Tbps firewall. Read More Zero-day vulnerability found in a Wordpress image utility Hackers are exploiting a problem with an image-resizing utility called TimThumb that is widely used in many themes for the blogging platform WordPress, although some fixes have been made to the latest version. Read More WHITE PAPER: Enterasys Networks Enabling anIncreasingly Sophisticated Customer Base Stephens Support Services provides the IT infrastructure and support for Stephens' brokerage, holding company and hospitality businesses. Stephens Support Services is a separate organization that partners with each business, solving unique challenges and positively impacting the bottom-line through technology. Read now! Samsung Androids get first SSLVPN client Last month Cisco announced the release of it Anyconnect SSLVPN client for Android devices. The Android Anyconnect client is available for download on the Android Market. This client is based on the 2.4 version of the Anyconnect PC agent. As such it supports the following major features: DTLS, certificate authentication and enrollment, two-factor authentication, Widgets, GUI Theming, auto-reconnect,... Read More Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software Symantec today unveiled the latest version of its email archiving software, which can now automatically classify email and assign it to the appropriate tier of storage. Read More ACLU to Congress: Cancer of Gov't Secrecy Is Killing America American democracy is beyond sick, in fact it's cancerous due to government secrecy cloaking the surveillance of American citizens. According to a new ACLU report, written by Mike German, a former FBI undercover agent, and Jay Stanley, "We are now living in an age of government secrecy run amok." Hiding behind secrecy is "undermining the constitutional checks and balances," making some of us wonder... Read More
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