| FTC: Explicit content in virtual worlds too easy for minors to see
The Federal Trade Commission today said minors can access explicit content in 70% of the virtual worlds it reviewed in a congressionally mandated report and urged virtual world operators to make key enhancements aimed at reducing the risk of youth exposure to such content. DNS flaw fixed, Neustar claims
Neustar, a provider of managed DNS services to e-commerce sites, says it has developed an innovative, low-cost fix to a well-known problem that prevents DNS updates from getting propagated quickly across the Internet. The Pain of PoS Patching
A basic—and often painful—security best practices is system patching. It's a basic requirement of any good security policy and is a mandate of regulations and legislation such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). There are plenty of automated systems on the market but we still find organizations patching... Five Shortcuts to PCI Compliance
By now we all know that the key to becoming PCI compliant is all about how well you can control the number of in-scope devices. Obviously, the smaller your scope the better. The challenge is how to efficiently and judiciously reduce your PCI scope without breaking everything and costing you a ton of cash. Re-architecting your network to reduce and define PCI scope is one of the first action items... Hackers find a home in Amazon's EC2 cloud
Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. Facebook privacy changes draw mixed reviews
Facebook's revamped privacy settings will push more user data onto the Internet and, in some cases, make privacy protection harder for Facebook users, digital civil liberties experts said. A back door to the network architecture
Recently, Network World's authors have reviewed gadgets that give your users the ability to quickly and cheaply put gobs of information onto the Internet and into other people's hands. Microsoft knew of just-patched IE zero-day for months
Microsoft may not have hustled as fast as researchers thought when the company patched a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer (IE) just 18 days after exploit code went public. Postal Service extends AT&T managed VPN pact
AT&T's government marketing arm will announce today that it has received a four-year, $120 million contract extension that will allow the carrier to continue providing managed VPN services to the U.S. Postal Service. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Amazon EC2 and Symantec: What Does it Mean? and Way too Easy: Dynamips Under Linux; On Microsoft Subnet: How To Run Windows 7 Virtualized on Mac OS X; On Google Subnet: Make money on Android? Mobile Ad Cents Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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