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	2012 Ig Nobel Prizes honor real, but offbeat research Groundbreaking research into monkey butts, green hair, diamonds and dead fish was honored this year. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue The 10 most common mobile security problems and how you can fight them What to learn from the $10 million Subway POS hack RSA looks to have SIEM do advanced real-time threat analysis, forensics Security startup isolates untrusted content in virtual machines Vendors cautiously optimistic over Google buying VirusTotal Sophos admits bad update slamming its anti-virus software customers Mobile malware shifting to SMS fraud Senator takes cybersecurity law fight to CEOs Anonymous spokesman's YouTube meltdown led to arrest Cybercriminals shift focus to bank employees Indonesia advances world's most ambitious biometric-based national identity card project 5 win government grants to help 'get rid of passwords' WHITE PAPER: SafeNet Inc Securing Sensitive Data in Virtual and Cloud Environments This paper reveals how SafeNet ProtectV delivers critical capabilities that combine encryption, access policies, key management, content security, and authentication to help security teams effectively meet governance, compliance, and data protection mandates. Learn More The 10 most common mobile security problems and how you can fight them When it comes to security, most mobile devices are a target waiting to be attacked. That's pretty much the conclusion of a report to Congress on the status of the security of mobile devices this week by watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office. Read More What to learn from the $10 million Subway POS hack Two Romanian hackers will serve time for targeting Subway in a $10 million point-of-sale conspiracy involving 150 restaurants in 2011. Read More RSA looks to have SIEM do advanced real-time threat analysis, forensics RSA is readying a product it calls Security Analytics whose purpose is basically to transform the company's traditional security information and event management (SIEM) product, EnVision, into a hunter of stealthy attackers, and a forensics tool to analyze attacks. Read More Security startup isolates untrusted content in virtual machines Security-software startup Bromium is shipping its first product, a virtualization client that runs any untrusted content inside its very own virtual machine -- a microVM -- protecting the underlying operating system and whatever content is stored on the physical machine from theft and malware infection. Read More WHITE PAPER: SafeNet Inc Compliance Assurance for Virtual and Cloud Environments When implementing virtual or cloud-based services, organizations that need to ensure ongoing compliance must address several key requirements before they can migrate sensitive data. ProtectV is designed to provide data protection and auditable compliance for all mandated regulations. Learn More Vendors cautiously optimistic over Google buying VirusTotal Google expected to improve quality and power of the small company's tools, but sharing of virus samples across vendors a concern Read More Sophos admits bad update slamming its anti-virus software customers Security firm Sophos today apologized for wreaking havoc in its customers' networks after a faulty update to its anti-virus software yesterday caused false positives for certain malware to occur on Windows-based computers. Read More Mobile malware shifting to SMS fraud Apps secretly bill victims for premium text services Read More Senator takes cybersecurity law fight to CEOs Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) hopes cybersecurity legislation can be revived in Congress by avoiding "the filter of beltway lobbyists," and connecting directly with top business leaders. But critic say he could have done so long ago. Read More WEBCAST: Webroot Software Try the fastest business security ever. Online security is an increasing risk for businesses, but what is the best solution? Cloud-based SaaS security is an emerging trend for organizations looking to address today's security reality. Learn about the cloud-based SaaS security. Learn More. Anonymous spokesman's YouTube meltdown led to arrest If anybody was surprised at the arrest in Dallas last week of Barrett Brown, self-described sometime spokesman for the hacktivist group Anonymous, it should not have been Brown himself. Read More Cybercriminals shift focus to bank employees The evolution of cybercrime continues: The preferred target in the financial industry is moving from the bank customer to the employee. Read More Indonesia advances world's most ambitious biometric-based national identity card project Tampa -- You might not guess that Indonesia, a large country that's basically an archipelago of over 70,000 islands that has infrastructure issues in electricity and limited bandwidth, is the nation rolling out the world's most ambitious biometrics-based national identity card project for its citizens. But it is. Read More 5 win government grants to help 'get rid of passwords' A federal initiative called the "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" has been encouraging the high-tech industry to work with government to find alternatives to simple passwords in order to foster more secure online transactions. The NSTIC program has been promising to fund $10 million in government grants for pilot projects to showcase innovative approaches, and today the winners were finally announced. Read More
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