Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Swine Flu: How to Make Biz Continuity Plans; McAfee launches 'online 911' for cybercrime victims

15 easy fixes for Mac security risks; New zero-day exploit targets Adobe Reader
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Swine Flu: How to Make Biz Continuity Plans
Speaking at the annual conference of The National Academy of Sciences Monday, President Obama said that declaring the swine flu outbreak a national health emergency was a prudent measure and no reason for panic. He's getting regular updates and briefings from John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism; Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Janet Napolitano, secretary of homeland security.
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McAfee launches 'online 911' for cybercrime victims McAfee has launched a new Web site designed to help cybercrime victims recover from hacker attacks.

15 easy fixes for Mac security risks One of the commonly touted advantages to using a Mac is that it's more secure and less prone to malware than a PC running Windows. It's easy to see where this attitude comes from: The prevalence of viruses and network attacks against Windows machines is greater by several orders of magnitude.

BitLocker, TPM won't defend all PCs against VBootkit 2.0 Trusted Platform Modules and BitLocker Drive Encryption can protect Windows 7 computers against a bootkit attack unveiled last week but these technologies won't be available on a large portion of computers, leaving millions of users unprotected when Microsoft releases its next version of Windows.

New zero-day exploit targets Adobe Reader Adobe Systems Tuesday confirmed that it's investigating reports that its popular PDF viewing software, Adobe Reader, contains a critical vulnerability.

Identifying the source of corporate threats The Verizon Business RISK team recently released its "2009 Data Breach Investigations Report," which gives a fresh look into the question of whether insiders or outsiders are the larger threat group. The report concludes that 74% of breaches result from external sources and "the predominance of total records lost was attributed to outsiders."

Cloud computing security: Who knew? Bradner: Security has not been much of a consideration in cloud computing - but that may be about to change.

Mozilla re-patches Firefox after regression bug pops up Mozilla Monday rushed out a new version of Firefox to fix a flaw it introduced with the 12-patch security update it shipped less than a week ago.

Free, cheap and pricey privacy-information services A top affliction of privacy professionals is the growing complexity of privacy laws. The number of jurisdictions regulating data privacy and the number of other laws in which privacy provisions are tucked has increased with no letup since 2000. Like the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels, the tiniest jurisdictions are now lassoing their privacy ropes around the mightiest of corporations.

How to Keep Intrusion Detection From Sucking Cisco Subnet blogger Jimmy Ray Purser says intrusion-prevention/detection system is like the plastic worm of network security devices in today's more advanced botnet orientated world. Read on to find out what he means.

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Bring Us DNSSEC. Will We Use It? Microsoft Subnet bloger Mitchell Ashley says a technology that's been around a while is finally getting its due, and deservedly so... DNSSEC, thanks to Dan Kaminsky's Blackhat presentation last year.

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