What can be done to ensure online privacy? The Federal Trade Commission later this year is holding public roundtables to look at the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of technology and business practices including social networking, cloud computing, online behavioral advertising, mobile marketing, and the collection and use of information by retailers, data brokers, third-party applications. Microsoft offers tools for secure app development The tools help developers add security and privacy provisions into the development lifecycle, but their enterprise usefulness is unclear as they are only for C and C++ Quick actions help financial firm avoid security disaster While most of the IT world has been spared a devasting security attack like Blaster and Sasser for the last few years, the damage wrought by all manner lesser-known computer viruses continues to inflict corporate pain. Phishing attacks go down by 45 percent: Symantec Symantec observed a 45 per cent decrease from the previous month in all phishing attacks, according to its September State of Phishing report. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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