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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Bit9, FireEye, Palo Alto Networks team to hit zero-day malware

  Pressure mounts for building in security during application development | Internet anonymity: Brought to you by open source systems
 
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Bit9, FireEye, Palo Alto Networks team to hit zero-day malware
Bit9 has teamed with FireEye and Palo Alto Networks, which each have sandboxing technologies, in order to share information related to zero-day attack code. Read More


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Pressure mounts for building in security during application development
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Internet anonymity: Brought to you by open source systems
I'm not a big fan of anonymity on the Internet. At least, not in general. Being completely (or even simply "mostly") anonymous online tends to bring out the worst in people. Online game voice chat. Message forums. Blog comments. We've all seen it. The worst comments tend to come from someone who calls himself "NotAChance@NotReally.com" or something like that. (Note that I used the masculine... Read More

US Defense Department approves Apple's iOS devices for its networks
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Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology are reviewed here: Read More

Facebook attacked with credential-harvesting malware
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Health care breach victims plummet
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10 Steps to Risk-based Security Management
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Yahoo Japan says 22 million user IDs may have been stolen
Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. Read More

What's next for Ethernet?
Internet traffic will quadruple in five years and the number of mobile Internet connections will exceed the world's population by 2017, according to Cisco research. Read More

Forrester: Windows 8 faces uphill battle as corporate desktop
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