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	Flame's Bluetooth functionality could help spies extract data locally, researchers say The Bluetooth functionality of the Flame cyberespionage malware could potentially be used to pinpoint the physical location of infected devices and allow local attackers to extract data if they get in close proximity to the victims, according to security researchers from antivirus vendors Symantec and Kaspersky Lab. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Want to Make Compliance Easy? Get Proactive! Is your business reactively implementing compliance? If so, you're wasting time and money and destroying productivity. Get proactive! Read now! In this Issue Anonymous Claims Attack on Facebook Sanitize Office: How to remove personal metadata U.S. and Israel unleashed Stuxnet, says New York Times Security: Prepared for the EU's New Data Protection Regulation? Big Brother's Mining Our Data, Do We Care? 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Since "security and privacy play a big role in any decision to move to the cloud," the feds' version will reside on separate servers than from the standard Office 365 users. Read More U.S. and Israel unleashed Stuxnet, says New York Times A New York Times report this morning appears to confirm what has long been suspected by many: that the United States and Israel were responsible for the Stuxnet cyber attack against Iranian nuclear facilities. Among the story's key points: Read More Security: Prepared for the EU's New Data Protection Regulation? As the U.K. prepares to begin enforcing its version of the European Union's E-Privacy Directive later this week, the 27-member nations of the E.U. are considering new draft legislation that would reform and harmonize data protection laws. 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See what viaForensics has to say about your favorite mobile apps. Read More An assessment of how the US government is trying to improve security The mood of the American people is changing, and changing fast. The president has recognized this and, while some may complain about the treatment of Bradley Manning, the WikiLeaks criminal, most are fed up to the teeth with the chaos which cybercriminals and hackers are visiting upon us. Read More Browser feature can be abused to misrepresent download origin, researcher says Legitimate browser functionality can be abused to trick users into believing that a trusted website has asked them to download a file, which is actually being served from a rogue server, Google security engineer Michal Zalewski demonstrated on Tuesday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue IT staff, engineers among top 10 toughest jobs to fill in US Forty-nine percent of US companies are having a hard time filling what workforce management firm ManpowerGroup calls mission-critical positions within their organizations with IT staff, engineers and "skilled trades" among the toughest spots to fill. Read More 10 Mobile Device Management Apps to Take Charge of BYOD Managing devices in a BYOD environment is no mean feat, and the right mobile device management (MDM) product can be a key component in making it work. Here are 10 leading MDM products on the market today. Read More Is RIM ruined? Bad news keeps piling up on RIM, but it wasn't always that way Read More The 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2012 so far Angry Birds Space isn't the only iPhone/iPad game in town! Read More
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