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	What is on a US Secret Service mainframe anyway? Periodically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the US Secret Service issues what it calls Privacy Impact Statements on systems that collect personally identifiable information. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ SANS Review of NetIQ Sentinel 7 A SIEM solution fully installed and capturing logs in under 15 minutes! Read how SANS analyst Jerry Schenk did it, and why he feels NetIQ Sentinel 7 is a great solution for the most pressing security problems facing enterprises today. Learn More! In this Issue FBI: Cyberattacks grow as national security menace Endpoint Security: The Next Generation Cybersecurity Roundup: Microsoft Crashes Botnet, Massive Credit Card Breach and More Mozilla adds vulnerable Java plug-in versions to Firefox blocklist Inside the fastest 3D Nano printer ever Whoops! Check Point lets checkpoint.com expire Cool old Ethernet paraphernalia Ice IX malware tricks Facebook users into exposing credit card details, says Trusteer What do you want mobile phones to do in the next 40 years? Adobe releases open source malware classification tool LulzSec accused Ryan Cleary arrested for emailing 'Sabu' WHITE PAPER: Oracle Sustainable Compliance for the Payment Card Industry This white paper explains the essentials of a PCI DSS compliance program, focusing on the critical but problematic areas that comprise much of the heart of the requirements. Learn More! FBI: Cyberattacks grow as national security menace WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cyberattacks are starting to eclipse terrorism as a threat to the country, say top officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaking before an audience of security professionals here at the GovSec Conference today. Read More Endpoint Security: The Next Generation When you mention endpoint security in conversation, it's not unusual to get some type of visceral response -- eyes rolling, sighs, etc. Security professionals and the industry at large think of endpoint security as a commodity or "necessary evil." Some of my fellow analysts have gone so far to say that endpoint security as a category is dead (that's an old analyst trick for declaring that you've... Read More Cybersecurity Roundup: Microsoft Crashes Botnet, Massive Credit Card Breach and More This week Microsoft seized servers in several states and filed lawsuits against dozens of people in an anti-Zeus effort; and 10 million Visa and MasterCard accounts may be at risk after a major breach. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire 5 Challenges to Achieve PCI DSS Compliance Treating PCI as an audit process, scoping it too broadly or not taking advantage of automated tools are all areas that create unnecessary compliance challenges. This white paper tackles the top PCI DSS compliance challenges and offers concrete recommendations on how to put together a PCI DSS compliance plan that works. Learn More Today! Mozilla adds vulnerable Java plug-in versions to Firefox blocklist Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from Firefox on Windows in order to protect its users from attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities in those versions. Read More Inside the fastest 3D Nano printer ever Vienna University of Technology says its 3D printer creates images in world record time Read More Whoops! Check Point lets checkpoint.com expire It's got to be a little embarrassing for a security company steeped in paying attention to details like opening and closing firewall ports and monitoring whether applications are behaving oddly to overlook an arguably major item like maintaining the company's domain name, but it happened to Check Point Software. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Expert Guide to Secure Your Active Directory Layered security is the way to go when it comes to protecting Active Directory. This expert e-guide explains the best method to use when planning and designing a security solution. Find out why it is important to secure Group Policy settings and discover how managed service accounts boost server security in R2. Learn More Now! Cool old Ethernet paraphernalia Ethernet is almost 40 years old. Here's a look at some of its product origins Read More Ice IX malware tricks Facebook users into exposing credit card details, says Trusteer A new configuration of the Ice IX malware attempts to trick its victims into exposing their credit card details when they try to access their Facebook accounts, according to security firm Trusteer. Read More What do you want mobile phones to do in the next 40 years? It's hard to believe that next year will be the 40th anniversary of the first handheld mobile phone call. What's also hard to fathom is that first call, between the father of the cell phone Martin Cooper, then of Motorola made to Joel Engel of Bell Labs was made on a phone that weighed over two pounds and cost nearly $4,000 and had a battery life of about 30 minutes. Read More Adobe releases open source malware classification tool Adobe Systems has released a malware classification tool in order to help security incident first responders, malware analysts and security researchers more easily identify malicious binary files. Read More LulzSec accused Ryan Cleary arrested for emailing 'Sabu' Alleged LulzSec member Ryan Cleary was re-arrested last month for breaching his bail conditions by emailing the hacking group's head 'Sabu' over the Christmas period, according to press reports. Read More
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