FBI: “Sky was the limit” for this now jailed scammer

	Microsoft calls out malicious downloaders | Over 70% of energy and financial firms say cyberattacks coming within 12 months
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	FBI: "Sky was the limit" for this now jailed scammer A New Jersey scam artist was sentenced to 12 years ain prison this week after admitting to being the mastermind behind a sophisticated fraud system that used identity theft, credit card fraud and other nefarious means to obtain $4 million, the FBI said. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee Get Proactive About Managing Security and Risk Read how managing risk today means making sense of more data: vulnerability scans, application and database logs, flows, access and session records, alerts, and trending analysis. View Now>> In this Issue Microsoft calls out malicious downloaders Over 70% of energy and financial firms say cyberattacks coming within 12 months The day the AV died Ruby on Rails security update available Malware infections tripled in late 2013, Microsoft finds The zany world of identified flying objects Is that Twitter account a bot? Researchers make app to find out WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Hosted VoIP Phone Service for a Distributed Workforce Does your company have multiple locations? What about employees who work from home? If you have separate phone systems for those locations and workers, you could be wasting money and sacrificing employee productivity on a daily basis. See how your current phone systems may be holding you back. Learn more >> Microsoft calls out malicious downloaders Microsoft is putting makers of downloader software on notice when it sees that their products are being used to infect PCs, and it is telling anti-virus vendors that perhaps these downloader programs ought to be tagged as malware. Read More Over 70% of energy and financial firms say cyberattacks coming within 12 months A blind survey of 200 IT security managers and admins, 100 in the energy sector and 100 in the financial service sector, revealed that "72% of energy and financial service firms believe there's a cyberattack in their near future." Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Next-Gen Security This paper discusses the new risks of Web-based applications, and offers best practices for gaining control of applications, data and bandwidth. Learn more The day the AV died I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck With a pink carnation and a pickup truck But I knew I was out of luck The day the music died ~ Don McLean, American Pie Read More Ruby on Rails security update available First off, what is it? Well, for those of you who may not know, Ruby on Rails is an open source web frame work that has been around since 2003. It was first developed by David Heinemeier Hansson and has since gone on to be used in thousands of web applications such as Basecamp, Twitter and Github. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Ensuring Today's Assets Today's trends like BYOD and SaaS are new and exciting in terms of how they will help make our jobs more productive but they also introduce challenges as it relates to software licensing. Find out more - it's time for your organization to look at how to better manage software assets. Read Now Malware infections tripled in late 2013, Microsoft finds A three-fold increase in Microsoft Windows computers infected with malicious software in late 2013 came from an application that was for some time classified as harmless by security companies. Read More The zany world of identified flying objects From flying pancakes and chainsaws to prototype jets and spacecraft, IFOs are way cooler than UFOs Read More Is that Twitter account a bot? Researchers make app to find out They spread lies. They push products you don't care about. They make unpopular people look popular. Sometimes, they take over your machine with malware. Read More
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