iPhone Security; Identity theft lurks around every one of life's turns

Security Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Worldwide Virtual Forum, June 23 The world is rapidly becoming more intelligent, more instrumented and more interconnected. It's becoming smarter. To accommodate this fundamental change, your infrastructure must become more dynamic. Attend the interactive general sessions of your choice, visit product exhibits, get your questions answered and round out your experience by joining the live chat with experts. Register for this Event Now Spotlight Story iPhone Security, Part 2 By M. E. Kabay Steinberger: Based on my personal observation and analysis, the main security constraints imposed by the iPhone Operating System are as follows. Read full story Related News: Identity theft lurks around every one of life's turns Two reports today via the DataLossDB newsletter demonstrate again that there is a seemingly limitless variety of ways in which your personal information can fall into the wrong hands. Say you lose your job, for example. Already a kick in the backside, it's made even more egregious if you live in New Jersey and the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development "misdirects" your social security number in an envelope-stuffing snafu. Video focuses on victims of e-mail scam A documentary-style video, "HCommerce: The Business of Hacking You," puts the focus on the travails of the Spears family of Portland, Ore., which lost about $400,000 when Janella Spears fell for a complex e-mail scam. The video, sponsored by McAfee and posted at www.stopHcommerce.com, includes commentary from an array of observers and characters, including JOHnnyhax and the now graying phone phreak of the 1970s, Cap'n Crunch. But the film is at its best when it focuses on the victims of cybercrime, in this case the Spears family, which fell for an e-mail scam promising the lost fortune of a dead relative, J.B. Spears, in Africa. Free tools help protect users from IIS zero-day exploit Security and patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies Tuesday recommended a pair of free tools from Microsoft to help users protect themselves from a zero-day exploit in Internet Information Server. Eric Schultze, CTO of Shavlik, says the IIS Lockdown Tool and the URLScan Tool, both available for free from Microsoft, will provide protection for users until Microsoft decides if it will release a formal patch.  CA unveils Compliance Manager for z/OS for mainframe policy control :CA Wednesday unveiled Compliance Manager for z/OS, software that works in tandem with any of three mainframe access-control products -- CA's Access Control Facility or Top Secret plus IBM's Resource Control Access Control Facility -- to boost real-time monitoring and policy control on data. Evolution of Ethernet From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone. Sponsored by IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Worldwide Virtual Forum, June 23 The world is rapidly becoming more intelligent, more instrumented and more interconnected. It's becoming smarter. 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