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	Super Bowl super bust: US seizes 307 websites; grabs $4.8M in fake NFL merchandise The piracy, counterfeit and copyright battle has moved to the Super Bowl. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Security Information and Event Management eGuide Security threats these days are increasingly focused on critical components of enterprise infrastructures – the servers, databases, and directories that store and manage crucial corporate information. Learn More! In this Issue Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme FBI busts software copyright fugitive who fled to Pakistan Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous Steven Colbert avoids toilet controversy, just loves NASA to pieces! Top 20 metro areas for tech jobs Anticipating the RSA Conference 2012 Ice IX banking Trojan steals info that enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls Married to your desk? 5 tips for a better relationship Trojan found breaking Yahoo CAPTCHA security in minutes RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing sectors. However, cloud providers usage agreements make the user responsible for protecting servers, applications and data. CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers. Get Free Halo Basic Today! Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking. Read More FBI busts software copyright fugitive who fled to Pakistan The FBI today said it arrested a man on charges of illegally reproducing and distributing more than 100 copyrighted commercial software programs who had fled the country after being indicted last year. Read More Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous Data routinely gathered in Web logs - IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings - can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan What to Look for in Smart Card Readers Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More Steven Colbert avoids toilet controversy, just loves NASA to pieces! Stephen Colbert, host of the nightly 'The Colbert Report,' and NASA supporter says he loves space and loves it more now because of what research work NASA is doing with the International Space Station. In a public service announcement released today Colbert says: "I love looking up at the stars and wondering what distant planets are still out there and to be discovered and can we frack them for methane."... Read More Top 20 metro areas for tech jobs Dice.com reports the top 20 metro areas for tech jobs, based on how much IT pros are getting paid and the number of open positions. Read More Anticipating the RSA Conference 2012 It's now February although you'd never know it from the balmy winter here in Boston. Aside from Valentine's Day, February is significant because it is when security geeks from around the world get together in San Francisco for the RSA Conference. The show doesn't start until 2/27 but you can feel the anticipation in the air across the whole security community. That's a good thing since... 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 Ice IX banking Trojan steals info that enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can divert post-transaction verification phone calls made by banks to phone numbers under their control, researchers from security vendor Trusteer warned. Read More Married to your desk? 5 tips for a better relationship Here's a sobering statistic: With a 40- to 45-hour work week, many Americans spend about 25% of the year on the job. For those of us who stare at computer screens all day, that amounts to more than 2,000 hours with our keisters glued to chairs. In less technical terms, we're practically married to our desks. Read More Trojan found breaking Yahoo CAPTCHA security in minutes Researchers have discovered a malware engine that appears to be able to break the CAPTCHA security used by Yahoo's webmail service after only a handful of attempts. Read More
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