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The six greatest threats to US network security

FBI warns of spear phishing attacks on lawyers, PR firms; Cisco tops in content security
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The six greatest threats to US network security

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FBI warns of spear phishing attacks on lawyers, PR firms
Employing uniquely spoofed subject lines designed to engage recipients with specific business content, the FBI today said US law and public relations firms are under attack by scammers using spear phishing e-mails with malicious payloads.

Cisco tops in content security
Cisco rates highest overall in user ratings of content security manufacturers, according to data compiled by Infonetics Reseach on user plans for content security. But Cisco leads only by a slight margin for most criteria, followed closely by Symantec.The real meat of the Infonetics study of 240 small, medium, and large North American organizations though is in these findings:

Risk Assessment Framework Helps Bank Secure Apps
With about a million customers, ICICI Bank manages close to Rs 50,000 crore (US$10.8 billion) in assets. A lot of that money is processed by about 550 bank applications that both its customers and about 10,000 of the bank's employees use. However, it was not always clear how open to vulnerabilities these applications were. It was not a state of affairs, the bank wanted to continue. "The bank wanted a high level of assurance for all its applications," says Pravir Vohra, Group CTO, ICICI Bank, "Within 18 months."

How Jindal Poly Films Fought Internet Threats
A part of the Rs 3,000-crore (US$650 million) B.C. Jindal Group, the 25-year-old Jindal Polyfilm is the largest manufacturer of PET film and BOPP films in the country with revenues of Rs 2,000 crore.

Firefox 3.6 locks out rogue add-ons
Mozilla is adding a new lockdown feature to Firefox 3.6 that will prevent developers from sneaking add-ons into the program, the company said.

Fake Facebook page steals login details
A fake Facebook page which is designed to steal social networkers login details has been uncovered by PandaLabs.

Security service protects PCs from attack
Start-up InZero Systems Tuesday makes its debut with a security service that promises to protect PCs from possible malware, intrusions and other types of attacks.

November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page.

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