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	Microsoft to release IE update for critical vulnerabilities on Friday Microsoft released a quick fix on Wednesday for a critical problem in its Internet Explorer browser and said a more permanent fix would be released on Friday. 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 "You have been targeted for assassination." Latest Hit Man scam takes a darker tone Sophos admits bad update slamming its anti-virus software customers One Of My Favorite Security Tools Goes Enterprise Beating the Internet Explorer zero-day threat Indonesia advances world's most ambitious biometric-based national identity card project iOS 6 Wi-Fi glitch a Web problem, not firmware issue Data breach liability should lie with companies: Survey Software engineer pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets Cybercrime-fest targets mobile devices Sprint says Virgin Mobile users are safe from account hijacks WHITE PAPER: Sourcefire, Inc. The Sourcefire FireAMP Vision Still getting malware infections despite the time and money you've spent on security? Today's malware defenses have an inherent disadvantage in fighting today's threats. Designed for another time they are burdened with legacy constraints that hamper performance and protection. Learn More "You have been targeted for assassination." Latest Hit Man scam takes a darker tone The scabs that keep the online Hit Man swindle running must get together every month and decide what sort of inane but scary threat will keep the scam "fresh." This week the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said it has received new complaints of a new twist to the Hit Man scam that finds the victims this time told via e-mails they have been targeted for assassination. The e-mail goes on to tell... 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 One Of My Favorite Security Tools Goes Enterprise If you work in the IT space (and I assume most of you reading this do) you know that you are the unpaid home IT consultant for most of your friends and family in non-IT careers. If something goes wrong or is not working they call you for help. Looking for a new computer or wireless router? Should I go Mac after all these years of Windows? What about the Cloud? I think I have a virus or one of my... Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Capitalize on the Cloud with a Sound Network Strategy New research underscores cloud computing's challenging effects on corporate networks, but solutions are available. Learn More! Beating the Internet Explorer zero-day threat Microsoft is quickly working to patch a new zero-day threat that has been discovered in recent versions of its Internet Explorer browser. Of course, Microsoft isn't the only vendor dealing with this type of issue; a recent zero-day vulnerability exploit of Oracle's Java engine was recently found in the wild. We know that this isn't the first set of zero-day vulnerabilities for which actual exploitation... 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 iOS 6 Wi-Fi glitch a Web problem, not firmware issue A Wi-Fi connection glitch sent a short-lived, but intense wave of alarm and outrage through the iPhone and iPad user community yesterday, after they updated to the just-released iOS 6. But apparently the problem had nothing to do with the operating system itself, and Apple fixed it within hours. Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right In this live, interactive Webcast you will learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. Data breach liability should lie with companies: Survey The call for mandatory data breach notifications and potential legal proceedings against enterprises who fail to protect customer data has become a little louder in Australia, according to the findings of a new survey. Read More Software engineer pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets A former senior software engineer for CME Group, a Chicago-based derivatives trading firm, has pleaded guilty to theft of trade secrets for stealing tens of millions of dollars' worth of computer source code and other information while pursuing plans to improve an electronic trading exchange in China, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Read More Cybercrime-fest targets mobile devices The lineup of depressing security stats in a recent report by the Government Accountability Office on the mobile devices is growing. Let's see: Read More Sprint says Virgin Mobile users are safe from account hijacks Sprint today denied that subscribers of its Virgin Mobile subsidiary are vulnerable to account hijacking attacks, as claimed by an independent software developer this week. Read More
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