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	Sandia lab fires up 300,000 virtual Android devices to test out security Researchers with the Sandia National Laboratory have tied together 300,000 virtual Android-based devices in an effort to study the security and reliability of large smartphone networks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: McAfee McAfee Network Security Platform Learn about the latest on security threats, design strategies for ensuring data center security, and real-life examples of how McAfee Network Security Platform actually works. Download now In this Issue ACLU: Electronic Spying Skyrocketed 64% Since President Obama Took Office Former Pirate Bay hoster raided by police, goes down amidst DDoS-attack See it, protect it, control it: A roundtable discussion Privacy war heats up between ACLU, DOJ Is antivirus dead? Startup launches first 'exploit blocking' program Top 10 enterprise products at DEMO Fall 2012 Expert fingers DDoS toolkit used in bank cyberattacks Security flaws exposed at Washington, D.C. airports In security response, practice makes perfect Lock down your social media with essential security add-ons Former Apple, NASA engineers wed to brew up insanely-great coffee RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial ACLU: Electronic Spying Skyrocketed 64% Since President Obama Took Office When Congress has setup a reporting system in order to provide transparency about surveillance performed by the Department of Justice, how sad is it that the ACLU has to sue in order for the public to see those 'transparency' reports? While that can't be good on any level, it almost assured that the news would be terrible . . . and it is. The ACLU released Justice Department documents which show a... Read More Former Pirate Bay hoster raided by police, goes down amidst DDoS-attack Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's other services. But the raid and the outage are unlikely to be related, according to PRQ's owner. Read More See it, protect it, control it: A roundtable discussion Network World recently asked blogger Alan Shimel, co-founder and managing partner of The CISO Group, to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from three sectors of the security community: a practitioner, an analyst and a vendor. The wide-ranging conversation touched on everything from the state of threats today to the failure of risk management, the need to share information and a massive attack suffered by the user. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Top 5 Myths of Safe Web Browsing There are a lot of misconceptions out there about safe web browsing. Discover the top five myths of safe web browsing, what the facts really are, and what you can do to stay secure. Learn More Privacy war heats up between ACLU, DOJ The ACLU is pushing ahead with its argunment that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) -- now 26 years old -- is in dire need of updating. Read More Is antivirus dead? Startup launches first 'exploit blocking' program Silicon Valley startup ZeroVulnerabilityLabs has made available a free program it claims stops malware from exploiting a wide range of software vulnerabilities regardless of whether these flaws are publically known or not. Read More Top 10 enterprise products at DEMO Fall 2012 Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right View this on-demand webcast to 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. Expert fingers DDoS toolkit used in bank cyberattacks Cyberattackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit -- a finding that points to a well-funded operation, one security vendor said on Monday. Read More Security flaws exposed at Washington, D.C. airports The Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (MWAA) earlier this year published a document to its website containing sensitive security information that terrorists could potentially have used to launch cyber and physical attacks against Reagan National and Dulles International airports in Washington, D.C. Read More In security response, practice makes perfect We've heard it many times in many forms -- expect to be breached, expect that you've been breached, expect that you are being breached. Read More Lock down your social media with essential security add-ons Oversharing: It's become standard operating procedure in our social-media-obsessed world. Still, there's a difference between Facebooking embarrassing party photos or tweeting about your celebrity crush, and actually releasing critical private information to the Internet at large. Read More Former Apple, NASA engineers wed to brew up insanely-great coffee What do you get when you combine work experience at Apple, NASA, MIT and BMW with an expert industrial designer? One helluva cup of coffee apparently. This is no run-of-the-mill coffee brewing system either, unless you have the $11,000 the new Blossom One Limited system costs. Rather it is aimed at the restaurant service industry or folks who have huge wallets and an even bigger thirst for coffee.... Read More
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