Symantec verifies stolen source code posted by Anonymous is "legitimate"

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	Symantec verifies stolen source code posted by Anonymous is "legitimate" Symantec is in an ongoing fight against hackers in the group Anonymous that last January attempted to extort a payment of around $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they had stolen for various older Symantec security products dating to 2006. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Palo Alto Networks Gartner Names Palo Alto Networks a Leader Palo Alto Networks was named leader for Enterprise Network Firewalls. According to Gartner, vendors in the leaders quadrant "lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, providing expert capability, rather than treating the firewall as a commodity, and having a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products." Click to continue In this Issue FTC warns background screening mobile apps may be unlawful Anonymity bites Anonymous in attempt to extort Symantec 5 ways to secure your Facebook profile in a post-Timeline world Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report Data breach? Blame your third party's remote access systems Backdoor in TRENDnet IP Cameras Provide Real-Time Peeping Tom Paradise? Quick look: Bill Gates' spanking new interactive Visitors Center Something fishy about Google Chrome's Safe Browsing API, lab says FBI declares cloud vendors must meet CJIS security rules Europe cares about privacy, so you must too Adobe sets IE as next target in Flash security work RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. The Iron Age is over. The Cloud Age is here. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. • 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance. • 5x capacity on demand - no new hardware. • Consolidation of up to 40 appliances into a single platform. • All functionality, all devices, all the time. Shift up to the Cloud. See why every major Cloud has a Citrix lining. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. FTC warns background screening mobile apps may be unlawful The Federal Trade Commission this week said it sent letters to six unidentified mobile applications makers warning them that their background screening apps may be violating federal statutes. Read More Anonymity bites Anonymous in attempt to extort Symantec There's something ironic about the anonymity afforded by the Internet putting a self-proclaimed member of the hacker group Anonymous in the position of negotiating extortion demands with a law enforcement officer posing as a Symantec employee. Read More 5 ways to secure your Facebook profile in a post-Timeline world With the ongoing rollout of Facebook's Timeline feature, security and privacy have never been more important to your digital life. The new layout presents all of your current and past activities on Facebook -- posts, photos, comments, likes and so on -- in a handy timeline format to anyone with access to your profile, which may include friends of friends, colleagues, executives at your company, a potential future boss ... well, you get the idea. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cyrus One The Myth of Latency Any company seeking a colocation partner will put geography near the top of the list of selection criteria. But there's one area where its importance is debatable, and that's the issue of latency. Learn More! Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks. Read More Data breach? Blame your third party's remote access systems An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance. Read More Backdoor in TRENDnet IP Cameras Provide Real-Time Peeping Tom Paradise? What happens when a console cowboy identifies a security vulnerability in Trendnet streaming IP cameras? Nearly a month later countless people have snuck in the backdoor without password authentication for a peep show. The vulnerability allows users to tune in and to spy in real-time on thousands of private lives via Trendnet home security cameras. Read More WHITE PAPER: Internap New eBook: Managed Hosting Buyer's Guide Looking to relieve the daily pressures on your current IT Infrastructure through Managed Hosting? This e-book provides managed hosting buyers essential tools for selecting or re-evaluating service providers. Learn More Quick look: Bill Gates' spanking new interactive Visitors Center Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens Seattle complex for inspiration Read More Something fishy about Google Chrome's Safe Browsing API, lab says A research firm that measures the security effectiveness of browsers noticed something it thought might be fishy with the way Chrome was doing things. Turns out, there may currently be a privacy concern about Google's use of end user IP addresses as part of its Safe Browsing API. Read More FBI declares cloud vendors must meet CJIS security rules The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to U.S. law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems security requirements. Read More Europe cares about privacy, so you must too In late January, the European Commission published a proposal "on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data." Read More Adobe sets IE as next target in Flash security work Adobe next plans to tackle Microsoft's Internet Explorer in its ongoing work to "sandbox" its popular Flash Player within browsers, Adobe's head of security said today. Read More
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