Security World: Security and vulnerability assessment: 4 common mistakes

PETA plans to spy on hunters with drones | EFF urges court to protect privacy of text messages

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Security and vulnerability assessment: 4 common mistakes
If you're running a robust security program, you're regularly conducting security and vulnerability assessments of your both your network and physical environments. But in the quest to uncover security gaps and vulnerabilities, slip-ups are often made, too, that make these efforts less effective at having a positive impact. Read More

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In this Issue

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.

PETA plans to spy on hunters with drones
If hunters stalk their prey, how well do you suppose they would like being stalked by a drone that hunts for the hunters? Hunters may not normally be concerned with surveillance or drones, but PETA plans to launch drones in order to "spy on hunters," collect footage, and then publicize it. Read More

EFF urges court to protect privacy of text messages
This case represents such an obvious and egregious rights violation by police that I have a hard time granting good faith on the part of the Washington state authorities arguing otherwise. Read More

Mobile-security startup debuts with 'container' and audit tech for iPad
Mobile-device security startup Averail makes its debut today with its "containerization" software and service intended to give IT managers control over mobile-device apps and their content. Read More

WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation

Data Protection Visibility with EMC Data Protection Advisor
With better visibility and insight into a key service delivery area like backup, data protection providers can get better information with less effort—and their clients are the beneficiaries. Learn More

VMware sells Protect product family to LANDesk
To further its concentration on software-defined data centers, hybrid clouds and end-user computing, VMware has sold the Protect product family to LANDesk. Read More

SQL injection flaws easy to find and exploit, Veracode report finds
The software industry's inability to reduce the number of security flaws in its code is fuelling an age of the 'everyday hacker', criminals who can exploit vulnerabilities with a minimum of technical skills, Security testing firm Vercode's latest State of Software Security (SoSS) report has suggested. Read More

With Firefox 22, Mozilla escalates the tracking battle
"Do Not Track" capabilities have been controversial ever since they first appeared in Firefox 4 back in 2011, but earlier this year the battle became even more intense when Mozilla announced that it planned to begin blocking third-party cookies by default. Read More

WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor

Phones Become the Leading Multi-Factor Authentication Device
According to a leading analyst firm, phone-based authentication will comprise 61% of the multi-factor authentication market by the year 2014. This paper will address the key drivers for this market shift away from security tokens and includes real-world case studies from organizations that have made the move to phone-based authentication. Learn More

Control system hack at manufacturer raises red flag
An unreported attack on the energy management system of a New Jersey manufacturer has been revealed by the U.S. Cyber Emergency Response Team (US-CERT). Read More

The state of cloud encryption: From fiction to actionable reality
The risks of data privacy, residency, security and regulatory compliance remain significant barriers to cloud adoption for many enterprises. While encryption seems like an obvious solution, historically the technology produced usability issues for cloud applications. To complicate matters, putting encryption into the hands of cloud service providers still left the enterprise open to risks such as insider fraud, hacking and disclosure demands from law enforcement. Read More

EPIC presses FBI in lawsuit for details on biometric database
A privacy watchdog has filed a lawsuit contending the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has failed to provide requested technical information about a biometric identification database expected to be the largest in the world. Read More

U.S. business SEC filings suggest cyber threats may be overstated
You may arrive at some conflicting conclusions about reported cyber attacks in recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by some of the largest companies in the nation. Read More

Father of SSH working on new version of crypto standard
The Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic network protocol that's supported in software for server authentication and machine-to-machine communications is headed for a significant update. Read More

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