US intelligence group seeking cutting-edge, secure chip development

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	US intelligence group seeking cutting-edge, secure chip development The cutting-edge intelligence research development arm of the government wants to take advantage of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capacity but make sure that US security and intellectual property protection is baked in. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Protecting Your Online Channels and Web Applications This whitepaper gives a broad overview of the ways in which Akamai can help organizations bolster the security of their Web-based assets, with capabilities ranging across the application, network, and DNS layers, as well as solutions focused on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation and business continuity. Learn more In this Issue Double Security Whammy, No Patches: Killer SSL DDoS Attack, XML Encryption Broken By the time you blink once, Facebook has locked out 2 potentially hacked accounts What to look for in secure collaboration tools Old image resize script leaves 1 million Web pages compromised Anonymous threatens to expose Mexican drug cartel Prevent your systems from being hijacked: A quick guide Lazy hackers port ancient Linux Trojan to Mac OS X Cybersecurity Innovation Works from the Inside Out at SAIC Check Point buys compliance technology vendor Dynasec WHITE PAPER: Intel Boost virtualization w/ HP & Intel 10GbE This paper describes why the Intel® Ethernet X520 SFP+ Direct Attach (DA) Server Adapter for HP ProLiant Rack and Tower servers is one of the most flexible and scalable Ethernet adapters for today's demanding data center environments. Click to continue Double Security Whammy, No Patches: Killer SSL DDoS Attack, XML Encryption Broken The Germans have wreaked all kinds of mass destruction, a double security and privacy whammy. A hacking group released a new SSL DDoS tool that can be successfully launched from a single laptop, a single DSL connection, to take down a server. Other researchers in Germany found and exploited a flaw that breaks the W3C XML Encryption standard with a serious attack that works in all cases. The researchers... Read More By the time you blink once, Facebook has locked out 2 potentially hacked accounts Happy Halloween! So I'm running a bit behind today after getting a hysterical phone call from a spooked dude about his computer being haunted. The CD drive would eject on its own, the mouse was moving about as if haunted, web pages were opening in new tabs, and his mail was being opened in front of his eyes. Read More What to look for in secure collaboration tools Despite monumental enterprise efforts to secure information, data breaches continue to top headlines, in part because of the way employees collaborate and share data. What's needed are enterprise-level secure collaboration tools. Read More WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor Phones Become the Leading Multi-Factor Authentication Device According to a leading analyst firm phone-based authentication will comprise 61% of the multi-factor authentication market by the year 2014. This paper will address the key drivers for this market shift away from security tokens and includes real-world case studies from organizations that have made the move to phone-based authentication. Read now Old image resize script leaves 1 million Web pages compromised A serious code injection vulnerability affecting timthumb, a popular image resize script used in many WordPress themes and plugins, has been exploited in recent months to compromise over 1 million Web pages. Read More Anonymous threatens to expose Mexican drug cartel Hacker group Anonymous has threatened to expose the identity of members and supporters of a Mexican drug cartel by Nov. 5, in retaliation for the kidnapping of a group member, and has already hacked the web site of a former state official, alleging that he has associations with the dreaded Zetas. Read More Prevent your systems from being hijacked: A quick guide It's time to rethink some old, and now outdated, security truisms that enable a very scary kind of attack. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Customer Lifetime Value for IT With technology underpinning much of the customer experience, IT and marketing must adopt new technologies to innovate and grow revenues. Watch the video to learn how IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics enables marketers while reducing the burden on IT. View Now Lazy hackers port ancient Linux Trojan to Mac OS X Hackers are testing new Mac malware that they've ported from a nine-year-old Trojan horse originally written for Linux, according to security experts. Read More Cybersecurity Innovation Works from the Inside Out at SAIC The company: SAIC Read More Check Point buys compliance technology vendor Dynasec Check Point Software is buying governance, risk management and compliance vendor Dynasec Ltd., which will add software that can help businesses comply with government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA). Read More
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