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	Windows XP die-hards can slash attack risk by dumping IE By switching to a non-Microsoft browser, Windows XP users can halve the number of vulnerabilities that apply to the OS, according to a survey of flaws Microsoft fixed in the second half of 2013. 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 How to optimize your security budget Web hosting provider give FCC a dose of life without net neutrality Microsoft shares 2 cybersecurity papers to protect infrastructure and supply chain 10 crucial issues around controlling orbital debris, directing space traffic INSIDER Step-by-step guide to documenting your network Research gives reason to double-check Heartbleed fix As Patch Tuesday looms, Microsoft gives Windows 8.1 users a reprieve Avast: Users frequently hitting websites loaded with ransomware Hackers now crave patches, and Microsoft's giving them just what they want WHITE PAPER: McAfee Streamlining Response and Reaction to Attacks This SANS white paper explores how to weave together and correlate information from disparately managed systems and bring visibility to their behavior with accurate, actionable reporting. View Now>> How to optimize your security budget The good news is that security budgets are rising broadly. The bad news? So are successful attacks. Perhaps that's why security budgets averaging $4.3 million this year represent a gain of 51% over the previous year a and that figure is nearly double the $2.2 million spent in 2010 a all according to our most recent Global Information Security Survey, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read More Web hosting provider give FCC a dose of life without net neutrality Federal Communications Commission a lesson by crippling the FCC's access to any page it hosts by throttling the agency's network down to 1990s-era dial-up modem speeds of 28.8 kbps. Read More Microsoft shares 2 cybersecurity papers to protect infrastructure and supply chain And they say crime doesn't pay...did you know cybercrime kingpins recruit new employees with incentives like a Ferrari and glamorous female assistants? This might be a good time to review if your company has the best safeguards in place. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intigua Systems Management Virtualization Discover how virtualizing the management layer, by de-coupling agents from the underlying server infrastructure, eliminates the need to install physical agents on servers and makes ongoing management tasks such as provisioning and updating agents as simple as copying a single "virtual agent" file to all required servers. Read more. Learn More 10 crucial issues around controlling orbital debris, directing space traffic What can, or perhaps more importantly should be done to control access to and prevent more debris from building up in the space around Earth? Read More INSIDER Step-by-step guide to documenting your network Every network should have a customized manual of sorts with maps showing the network layout and written documentation on all the basic aspects of the network. Read More Research gives reason to double-check Heartbleed fix System administrators rushing to fix the highly publicized Heartbleed vulnerability may have introduced the flaw into unaffected websites, a security researcher says. Read More WEBCAST: Brocade Communications IT Agility: How Do You Stack Up? Are you faced with increasing pressure to deploy technology faster? You're not alone. This year, over half of enterprises will be prioritizing building a private cloud, a concept introduced less than five years ago. View Now>> As Patch Tuesday looms, Microsoft gives Windows 8.1 users a reprieve For the third time in four weeks, Microsoft has backed away from a customer cutoff by postponing enforcement of the Windows 8.1 Update migration deadline until June 10. Read More Avast: Users frequently hitting websites loaded with ransomware Fresh statistics from the maker of a widely used free security product show the extent to which users are encountering file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. Read More Hackers now crave patches, and Microsoft's giving them just what they want At least one of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates looks like an excellent candidate to hackers as they poke around for bugs in the now-retired Windows XP. Read More
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