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	20 Seconds to jailbreak Windows RT There's not a whole lot you can do in half of a minute, but thanks to XDA Developers "netham45," you can run a new tool and jailbreak Microsoft Surface in 20 seconds. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Simplify Your Audits and Compliance Efforts Managing compliance is a challenge. Learn how to apply this 3-step process to capture activity on your critical systems, analyze data in real-time, query historical records at the press of a button, and simplify your audits. Find out who did what, when—and why. Get the solution brief now. Learn More! In this Issue FTC targets outfits that crammed $70M onto phone bills Testing The Privacy Company Mega: 50GB free storage, 2048-bit encrypted protection Company set to blast squadron of tiny satellites into space to mine asteroids 'Virut' botnet dealt blow as registrar sinkholes domains Cloud security rebuttal: Don't rebuke the many for the sins of the few A road warrior's guide to locking down your laptop Are federal agency workers going rogue with personal devices? Spam levels plummet as industry takes aim at botnets Bugged guesthouse: Eric Schmidt's daughter reveals North Korea trip details WHITE PAPER: Trusteer Dealing with Advanced and Targeted Attacks This whitepaper explains how advanced malware challenges traditional defenses to take advantage of the increased exposure of employee endpoints. It reviews the evolution of advanced targeted attacks and the various approaches used to address them. Learn More. FTC targets outfits that crammed $70M onto phone bills The Federal Trade Commission today said it asked a U.S. district court to stop operations of American eVoice, Ltd., eight other companies, whom the agency says stuffed some $70 million in bogus charges on consumers' phone bills. Read More Testing The Privacy Company Mega: 50GB free storage, 2048-bit encrypted protection Kim Dotcom's new end-to-end encrypted file storage and sharing service, Mega is being billed as The Privacy Company that "provides robust cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. MEGA believes in your right to privacy and provides you with the technology tools to protect it. Read More Company set to blast squadron of tiny satellites into space to mine asteroids A new company intends by 2015 to send a fleet of tiny satellites, known as cubesats into near-Earth space to mine passing asteroids for high-value metals. Deep Space Industries asteroid mining proposal begins in 2015 when the company plans to send out a squadron of 55lb cubesats called Fireflies that will explore near-Earth space for two to six months looking for target asteroids MORE: The sizzling... Read More WEBCAST: PhoneFactor Strong Security for Remote Workers Is Just a Phone Call Away Join Steve Dispensa, PhoneFactor Chief Technology Officer, and Sarah Fender, PhoneFactor Vice President of Marketing & Product Management, to learn how phone-based authentication is helping companies tackle complex authentication challenges. Learn More 'Virut' botnet dealt blow as registrar sinkholes domains Poland's national NASK domain registrar has taken control of 23 domains it said were being used to support the Virus botnet has been attempting to resurrect the tenacious Waledec/Kelihos bot severely damaged by Microsoft in 2011. Read More Cloud security rebuttal: Don't rebuke the many for the sins of the few Long-time cloud security advocate Chris Hoff challenges our recent '7 deadly sins' story Read More A road warrior's guide to locking down your laptop Mobile computing may be convenient, but it's also inherently risky. When you drag your laptop to the coffee shop or bring it along on your travels, you're making all your private data and one of your most expensive possessions a big, fat target for sticky-fingered thieves. And unlike traditional theft targets like jewelry or wallets, a laptop is an easy steal--the baddies just need to wait for you to turn your back, then grab the computer and run. In some cases, a criminal doesn't even need to steal your notebook. He can simply pull your sensitive data out of thin air. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Unified Threat Management: A Better Approach to Security In this Webcast you will learn how Unified Threat Management (UTM) combines firewall, IPS, Web filtering, antivirus and more in a single box to combat a broad range of threats efficiently and economically. Learn More. Are federal agency workers going rogue with personal devices? Federal agencies continue to struggle with the question of whether to allow employees to use their personal smartphones and tablets at work under so-called bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, according to a survey out this month from the organization Telework Exchange. Read More Spam levels plummet as industry takes aim at botnets Global spam levels continued to fall in 2012 and even the number of malicious attachments was on the wane, new figures from Kaspersky Lab have suggested. Read More Bugged guesthouse: Eric Schmidt's daughter reveals North Korea trip details In North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the only people with access to the Internet are those with "special authorization." Very few details have been revealed about what happened during Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's recent visit to North Korea . . . other than he urged DPRK to "embrace" open access to the Internet. Read More
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