Copyright, piracy battle rages: Megaupload.com shut down, execs jailed

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	Copyright, piracy battle rages: Megaupload.com shut down, execs jailed The US Department of Justice today said it charged seven people and two corporations with running what it called an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works. The DoJ stated that through the company known as Megaupload.com and other related sites, the group has generated more than $175 million in criminal... Read More WEBCAST: ForeScout Technologies Experts Help CIOs Rethink Threat Prevention This webcast examines sophisticated and targeted threats, security gaps, techniques and new technologies with regards to understanding and defending against zero-day threats, propagating worms, low-and-slow attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). Learn more. In this Issue Firesheep moment for SCADA: Hacking critical infrastructure systems now as easy as pushing a button? Information Security Skills Shortage Continues RSA says 2012 will focus on mobile, cloud security RSA, unapologetic, looks to move beyond The Breach Inside Google at work and play Security history: Nothing like an old-fashioned boot sector virus Help desks critical to BYOD efforts Surging mobile use creating big security headaches: survey Apple Mac-based security threats jumped in 2011 Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group Turns 10 NASA: Solar blasts decreased orbital debris in 2011 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers - from dynamic firewalls to intrusion detection, and account management. Halo is SaaS and installs in 5 minutes. Halo Basic is free for up to 25 servers. Try Halo Firesheep moment for SCADA: Hacking critical infrastructure systems now as easy as pushing a button? Remember Firesheep . . . the addon that was so easy to use that even the clueless could successfully hack Facebook and Twitter accounts via Wi-Fi? Read More Information Security Skills Shortage Continues Like other analyst firms, ESG conducts research on IT Spending Intentions annually. One of the things we track is IT hiring plans in all areas including IT security. In 2011: • 35% of all mid-market and enterprise organizations planned on hiring security staff • 22% believed they had a "problematic shortage" of security skills at their organizations The situation has not improved at all... Read More RSA says 2012 will focus on mobile, cloud security Beyond addressing details about its big breach of 2011, RSA Security executives this week outlined its 2012 product strategy that is centered on three areas, mobility, anti-threat and cloud security. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now RSA, unapologetic, looks to move beyond The Breach Last April's RSA security breach was engineered by a nation-state whose ultimate goal was not to steal secrets about SecurID tokens but rather to use those secrets to compromise U.S. military contractors that protected their networks with the devices, RSA officials say. Read More Inside Google at work and play Google's new Venice Beach campus features a ton of cool activities for workers developing Chrome, YouTube and Google+ apps Read More Security history: Nothing like an old-fashioned boot sector virus It has been 26 years to the day when the computing world was introduced to its first virus: The Brain. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More Help desks critical to BYOD efforts It seems like it was only yesterday when help desk staff could focus on PCs, Windows, the network, and perhaps a few BlackBerrys for executives and the sales team. Not anymore. Read More Surging mobile use creating big security headaches: survey An explosion of personal mobile devices on corporate networks is creating new security headaches for the enterprise, according to a survey of IT professionals by a network security vendor. Read More Apple Mac-based security threats jumped in 2011 New Mac-based security threats jumped in 2011, but still remain far below that of Windows PCs, according to a posting by F-Secure Labs. Read More Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group Turns 10 It was ten years (and a week) ago that Bill Gates announced to all Microsoft employees that the company was creating a new group that wasn't designed to make a dime of money, but it would become a major player in the company. In his memo announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, Gates called upon employees across the company to fundamentally rethink their approach to product development and... Read More NASA: Solar blasts decreased orbital debris in 2011 While high-levels of solar activity is not good news for satellites, GPS and electronics they can have one benefit: such massive solar bursts can decrease the amounts of dangerous orbital debris. Read More
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