| Hot security predictions for 2010
Looking forward to 2010 while trying to erase the memory of 2009 -- here are my security predictions for the new year. 10 Predictions for 2010: Kaminsky and Weatherford
Curious about what's going to happen to our critical IT infrastructure in 2010? Here, IT security luminaries Mark Weatherford, CISO for California State, and Dan Kaminsky, finder of last year's DNS flaw, offer five predictions each. (The first of 2 parts). Rogue antivirus lurks behind Google Doodle searches
In Esperanto the word is "malica." It means malicious and it's the best way of describing many of the search results Google visitors got Tuesday when the clicked on Google's front-page Doodle sketch, dedicated to Esperanto's creator. Mass. Supreme Court throws out lawsuit against BJs over '04 data breach
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing a lawsuit brought against by BJs dozens of credit unions over a 2004 data breach. Adobe offers advice on avoiding new Reader attack
One day after warning of a new attack on its Reader and Acrobat software, Adobe issued a security advisory Tuesday offering users some advice on how to mitigate the problem. Five Things You Need to Know About Social Engineering
SOCIAL ENGINEERING IS GROWING UP. Social engineering, the act of tricking people into giving up sensitive information, is nothing new. Convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick made a name for himself by cold-calling staffers at major U.S. companies and talking them into giving him information. But today's criminals are having a heyday using e-mail and social networks. A well-written phishing message or virus-laden spam campaign is a cheap, effective way for criminals to get the data they need. Firefox Update Fixes Three Critical Flaws
Mozilla yesterday released Firefox version 3.5.6. The update resolves three critical security holes, and also patches up some stability issues. Microsoft's acquisition of Sentillion stands out
It took until December, but what could be the biggest acquisition story of the year broke last week. At least until Oracle's buyout of Sun gets EU approval, Microsoft's acquisition of Sentillion will be the big one. Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns
Security measures such as one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication, considered among the most robust forms of security, are no longer enough to protect online banking transactions against fraud, a new report from research firm Gartner Inc. warns. ActivIdentity acquires CoreStreet in $20 million deal
ActivIdentity has reached an agreement to acquire CoreStreet in a primarily cash deal worth about $20 million. Akamai service to stop data center attacks
Akamai Technologies is introducing a cloud-based managed service called Web Application Firewall it claims will head off the bulk of Web applications attacks before they get inside corporate data centers. Facebook Privacy: Zuckerberg's Profile Unzipped
How much personal information can you glean from Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's profile? That depends on when you happened to be viewing it. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet:Are Cisco's acquisitions working for the company? and iACLs; A Service Providers Best Practice on your LAN; On Microsoft Subnet Microsoft Exchange 2010: A hard upgrade and not yet in the cloud: On Google Subnet: 10 best Chrome extensions Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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