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	Who's stealing your data? In a number of recent newsletters we've looked at spear-phishing and how it can make your employees, customers, clients and users into unwitting dupes of the crackers and malfeasants who are trying to steal the "family jewels" of your organization. Just ask the folks at RSA (who insist that they are the "security division" of EMC). Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Accelerating Your Virtual Environment with WAN Optimization Which applications in your virtual environment do you want to accelerate the most? This Webcast surveys the applications that suffer the most from latency and discusses the 3 root causes of poor wide-area application performance. See how you can realize dramatic improvements in replication in virtual machines. Learn More! In this Issue How to survive Black Hat and Defcon without getting hacked -- maybe HBGary Federal legal threats, not Anonymous chase Aaron Barr out of Defcon security conference 'War texting' lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS Anonymous claims to have breached ManTech International's network Malwarebytes preps enterprise edition of PC-cleaning software Microsoft fixes Mac Office bug in Apple's Lion Apple has more cash than US government! Buyout not imminent though Facebook to pay hackers for bugs Judge gives second AT&T iPad hacker more time to make deal E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack House panel votes to require ISPs to keep customer records Tenn. BlueCross finishes enterprise-wide data encryption WEBCAST: Riverbed 3 Ways WAN Optimization Pays Back One of the most complicated and expensive endeavors that an IT organization ever undertakes is disaster recovery. If you have DR requirements that aren't being met, before you think about buying more bandwidth or looking at other complex solutions, you should really look at Riverbed WAN Optimization. Watch the video to learn more. Learn more! 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 HBGary Federal legal threats, not Anonymous chase Aaron Barr out of Defcon security conference Aaron Barr, the tech executive who bailed out of a talk at the Security B-Sides conference after the hacker collective Anonymous attacked the company he worked for, is bailing out of yet another conference, this time chased away by his former boss. Read More 'War texting' lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS Software that lets drivers unlock car doors and even start their vehicles using a mobile phone could let car thieves do the very same things, according to computer security researchers at iSec Partners. Read More Anonymous claims to have breached ManTech International's network A tweet sent by the hacker group Anonymous at midnight yesterday claims the group has broken into the network of defense contractor ManTech International and intends to release seized documents within 24 hours. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Value of Service-Centric Visibility IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More Malwarebytes preps enterprise edition of PC-cleaning software Malwarebytes this fall expects to release an enterprise-grade anti-malware platform that it says doesn't compete directly with traditional antivirus software because it relies more on observing how the malware acts and less on seeking code signatures. Read More Microsoft fixes Mac Office bug in Apple's Lion Microsoft Thursday released an updated version of Communicator for the Mac that works with Apple's Lion operating system. Read More Apple has more cash than US government! Buyout not imminent though Given the current level of disarray and ineptitude of the elected officials in Washington DC right now this news probably shouldn't be all that shocking: Apple with its $76 billion in the bank has more cash than the US with its almost $74 billion. The news has prompted a variety of reactions. More wacky news: 20 of the weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2011 (so far!) Read More Facebook to pay hackers for bugs Facebook is going to pay hackers to find problems with its website -- just so long as they report them to Facebook's security team first. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Application-Aware Network Performance Management Riverbed® Cascade© stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read Now. Judge gives second AT&T iPad hacker more time to make deal A federal judge has put the case against a man charged with hacking AT&T's website last year on hold to allow plea negotiations to continue, court documents show. Read More E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack About 100,000 Web pages for e-commerce sites based on the open source OS Commerce software have been compromised with malware through a mass iFrame injection attack, according to security firm Armorize. Read More House panel votes to require ISPs to keep customer records A House committee passes a bill that would require ISPs to retain customer IP information for a year as a way to combat child pornography. Read More Tenn. BlueCross finishes enterprise-wide data encryption BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee said today it has completed a year-long effort to encrypt all of its at-rest data, a move it took after 57 of its hard drives were stolen in 2009. Read More
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