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	IE zero-day flaw shows kinks in Microsoft patching The speed at which cybercriminals exploited an Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered in mid-February and finally patched Tuesday demonstrates the snags in Microsoft's security update system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Neustar Inc. Four Ways DNS Can Accelerate Business Growth This e-book describes how DNS has developed over the years to support business growth as new needs have emerged, for example, advanced traffic management and protection from cyber threats. Learn More In this Issue FISA court reverses order to destroy NSA phone data Researchers pocket record $400K at Pwn2Own hacking contest's first day Healthcare industry advised to do more thorough risk analyses Some Samsung Galaxy devices contain a file access backdoor, Replicant developers say Sophisticated scam targeting Verizon Wireless customers Twitter: Attack emails drop from 110 million per day to a few thousand Can anti-virus technology morph into breach detection systems? Mt. Gox kept exchange open despite knowledge of large-scale theft, filing suggests NASA radar system could help predict sinkholes RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Tales from the Dark Side of the Network Frustrated with your big IT Network Management System? In this exclusive footage, IT pros tell their side of the story...the dark side. Let SolarWinds ® Software bring light to the darkness. Save Time. Save Money. Save the Network with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor. Watch now and don't let inefficient network management systems take your team to the dark side. FISA court reverses order to destroy NSA phone data The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has temporarily reversed its earlier order that call records collected by the National Security Agency should be destroyed after the current five-year limit. Read More Researchers pocket record $400K at Pwn2Own hacking contest's first day Researchers cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11, Mozilla's Firefox and Adobe's Flash and Reader at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, earning $400,000 in prizes, a one-day record for the challenge. Read More Healthcare industry advised to do more thorough risk analyses Healthcare organizations see an expanding landscape of uncertainty that has raised concerns among security pros and points to the need for more thorough threat analyses, a study showed. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Increasing the Value of Your Reports and Dashboards Learn how incorporating other analytical capabilities such as predictive modeling and visualization can increase the value of your reports and dashboards by providing insight from complex data or predicting a future outcome. Register Now Some Samsung Galaxy devices contain a file access backdoor, Replicant developers say The developers of Replicant, a mobile OS based on Android, claim to have found a backdoor vulnerability in a software component shipped with some Samsung Galaxy devices that potentially provides remote access to users' private files through the device modem. Read More Sophisticated scam targeting Verizon Wireless customers The Better Business Bureau recently warned of a scam targeting Verizon Wireless customers that tries to trick users into giving up personal information. Read More Twitter: Attack emails drop from 110 million per day to a few thousand There used to be a whopping 110 million attack messages per day spoofing the Twitter domain name as cyber-criminals blasted out fake Twitter e-mail at intended victims to try and fool them into opening dangerous malware-infested links and other scams. But by adopting a messaging authentication protocol called Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), Twitter has seen that number drop to a few thousand. Read More WHITE PAPER: Plantronics Unleash your UC Potential By Putting Users First What's holding back Unified Communications (UC) adoption? Too often, today's solutions are simply too hard to use. Now, survey results show high-quality audio and a simple and intuitive user experience can turbo-charge acceptance. Read this exclusive report from Plantronics and IDG to learn how you can start making the most of UC. Read now! Can anti-virus technology morph into breach detection systems? Anti-virus software is still often considered a "checkbox" item for enterprise deployments, especially on Microsoft Windows, but over the decades, anti-virus software changed to do far more than just signature-based virus blocking. Today, the question is whether the type of anti-malware product that evolved from virus checking can transform again to be a part of a "breach detection system," or BDS Read More Mt. Gox kept exchange open despite knowledge of large-scale theft, filing suggests Mt. Gox may have collected a large sum in trading fees in the weeks before its closure, even though it was already aware that a vast number of bitcoins had gone missing, its U.S. bankruptcy filing suggests. Read More NASA radar system could help predict sinkholes Read More
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