Baddest Botnets of 2012

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	Baddest Botnets of 2012 According to security firm Kindsight, these are the Top Ten Worst Botnets this year. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LexisNexis Fraud is changing. Are you keeping up? As fraud tactics evolve, so should your security processes and solutions. Stay up to date on the latest in identity management, authentication and fraud, plus the integrated technologies that help you better protect your customers and infrastructure, with the LexisNexis® Identity Management eNewsletter. Put more I.D. in IT, starting today. Get the eNewsletter Now >> In this Issue Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 Cybercriminals sell access to compromised corporate systems Web still king, but email stages scam comeback Mobile devices still poorly secured, survey finds - nobody shocked Presidential debate disappointing from cybersecurity perspective? Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event FTC sets facial recognition software best practices Big Brother comes to BitTorrent WHITE PAPER: McAfee Blueprint to Secure Cloud-Based Communications Secure cloud-based communications with a risk-based approach that helps businesses to safely use web and email channels, protect against data leakage and intellectual property loss, and reduce support and audit costs. Download the technology blueprint now. Learn more. Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it's because quite a few -- like cloud computing and mobile trends -- have been around for awhile but are now either morphing or changing in ways that will continue to impact IT in the next year. Read More Cybercriminals sell access to compromised corporate systems A service discovered in the criminal underground is renting access to thousands of corporate servers that have been hacked through Windows software that lets people control computers remotely over the Internet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed How to Improve Data Center Security while Reducing Sprawl Download this useful case study to learn how organization's like yours have benefitted from improved data security and performance through snapshotting, encryption, and removal of storage media from remote offices. Learn more. Web still king, but email stages scam comeback Trust, but verify. That was the motto of President Ronald Reagan. It also ought to be the motto of everyone who uses email. Read More Mobile devices still poorly secured, survey finds - nobody shocked Anyone with doubts about BYOD look away now. A new survey has found that almost half of mobile users still employ no security despite the fact that many devices are used to access and store corporate email. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Websense Threat Report 2012 ocial networking continues to dominate communications as mobility and cloud computing extend security perimeters into devices, networks, and apps that we no longer control. What is left in our control is our data, and the shift to risk management and defenses to protect confidential data is urgent and imperative. Read Now! Presidential debate disappointing from cybersecurity perspective? In the third and final presidential debate, from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, the focus was supposed to be on foreign policy. When talking national security, about the military and foreign policy, it seemed like a great time to bring up cyberspace as the fifth domain for cyber-warfare and actual cyberwar, cybersecurity and cyber-weapons. Read More Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday. Read More FTC sets facial recognition software best practices If facial recognition software is a big part of your company's security system you might want to take a look at a new report from the Federal Trade Commission which outlines personal privacy protection company's that use the technology should employ. The FTC report recommends for example: Read More Big Brother comes to BitTorrent Lots of people download movies and TV episodes off the various BitTorrent networks. That's always been asking for trouble, but it's about to become a lot more dangerous. Read More
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