How to survive Black Hat and Defcon without getting hacked -- maybe

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	How to survive Black Hat and Defcon without getting hacked -- maybe Among the thousands of security experts at the Black Hat, Defcon and Security BSides conferences next week in Las Vegas, some will surely test whether they can break into nearby laptops, phones, networks -- even RFID-enabled room keys and credit cards. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Defend Against Insider Threats Organizations must accept the reality that insider threats are no longer an abstract concept. This paper explains the factors that are increasing the insider threat and details a proactive approach that leverages identity and access management to reduce risk and improve compliance. Learn More In this Issue Researchers praise Facebook for paying bug bounties A mind-blowing look at today's mind-controlled, mind-reading technologies Doing e-Discovery / Message Retention / Legal Recovery in Exchange 2010 - Office 365 Google explains its data correlation privacy settings US phisher who hit 38,500 gets long prison sentence 20 of the weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2011 (so far!) WHITE PAPER: Splunk Autodesk Gains Visibility into MSP Metrics with Splunk See how Splunk has become the tool that is allowing Autodesk to crack the MSP "black box" and measure critical metrics and SLA performance. Read more. Researchers praise Facebook for paying bug bounties Facebook's move today to follow Google, Mozilla and Hewlett-Packard in offering bounties for bugs got a unanimous thumbs up from security researchers. Read More A mind-blowing look at today's mind-controlled, mind-reading technologies It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but for the past few years, researchers have tapped into brain waves to control everything from video games to wheelchairs. They are beginning to use computers to decipher our thoughts, too. 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 Doing e-Discovery / Message Retention / Legal Recovery in Exchange 2010 - Office 365 The topic has come up many times recently on how organizations can leverage Microsoft Exchange 2010 (on-premise) or Microsoft Office 365 (in the cloud) to retain messages, legally hold and recover messages, and successfully perform eDiscovery tasks as required by legal counsel, by law, and/or as needed. This document clarifies what's included "in the box" in Exchange 2010 and Office 365, and... Read More Google explains its data correlation privacy settings In response to my blog post about how Google seems to be gathering pubic data about people and correlating it with their Google user names, Google has offered some explanations. A company spokesperson told me that the search giant is not looking at public phone directories to match phone numbers with user names. But it is looking through social media sites to correlate those accounts to your Google... Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Learn More! US phisher who hit 38,500 gets long prison sentence A California man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Thursday for his role as the brains behind a widespread phishing scam that took in more than 38,000 victims. Read More 20 of the weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2011 (so far!) From IT geeks winning millions to Google mush-brain syndrome, 2011 is shaping up to be one wacky year Read More
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