U.S. Internet security plan revamped

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	U.S. Internet security plan revamped The U.S. government is shifting its strategy for defending federal networks against a rising tide of hacking attacks launched by foreign governments and criminals. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Network Virtualization helps Reduce IT Operational Costs Network virtualization solutions extend the benefits of virtualization technologies throughout campus and distributed networks, reaching every endpoint and managing every user. Read more now! In this Issue Gov't builds secret database to fight cyber-terrorism Einstein 2: U.S. government's 'enlightening' new cybersecurity weapon NASA solar probe rockets toward rendezvous with Sun Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts Credit card data security: Who's responsible? Simulated cyber-attack to test government response Flirt bots re-appear in the run up to Valentine's Day AT&T, Verizon, other carriers eyeing federal government cybersecurity deals AT&T wins $5M cybersecurity deal with FTC Slew of Critical Updates from Microsoft ACLU objects to reported Google partnership with NSA Juniper helps Hitachi create value-added security services WHITE PAPER: BeyondTrust Building a Secure and Compliant Windows Desktop While removing administrator rights from end users may be the Holy Grail of desktop security, doing so can have an impact on what end users need to do their jobs. Read this white paper to discover powerful strategies to effectively remove administrator rights and improve desktop security. Read Now Gov't builds secret database to fight cyber-terrorism Australia's biggest banks, telcos, and utilities have handed sensitive data to government for the protection of critical infrastructure (CI) against terrorism and natural disasters. Read More Einstein 2: U.S. government's 'enlightening' new cybersecurity weapon The Department of Homeland Security is detecting new patterns of cyberattacks from foreign adversaries -- some targeted at particular agencies and others aimed at the entire U.S. government -- due to to special-purpose intrusion-detection systems that will be widely deployed in federal networks during 2010. Read More NASA solar probe rockets toward rendezvous with Sun NASA this morning used a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket to blast its 6,800lb Solar Dynamics Observatory into an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth.  Read More Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts One day after its launch, privacy concerns have been raised about Google's new Gmail-based social-networking tool, Buzz. Read More WHITE PAPER: Trend Micro Effectively Deal with Security Threats in Real-Time Eliminate costly and time-consuming manual security processes with a network security overwatch layer. Raise the bar on security protection within your organization. Find out why an overwatch layer should be part of your best practice security requirements. Read now. Credit card data security: Who's responsible? About a year ago security at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. was breached and information affecting over 100 million credit cards stolen. Was it Heartland's fault, or should the credit card companies shoulder more of the responsibility? Read More Simulated cyber-attack to test government response Security industry analysts and lawmakers will get an unprecedented chance next week to evaluate how the government might respond to a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure targets. Read More Flirt bots re-appear in the run up to Valentine's Day Web users accessing chat rooms and instant messaging programs in a bid to find love online in the run up to Valentine's Day are being warned about the re-appearance of Flirt Bots. Read More AT&T, Verizon, other carriers eyeing federal government cybersecurity deals AT&T, Verizon, other carriers eyeing federal government cybersecurity deals Read More WHITE PAPER: WatchGuard Avoid Compliance Violations Protecting confidential data is serious business. Failure may result in fat fines and even jail time - not to mention damage to your brand. WatchGuard's easy-to-use, all-inclusive email and web secure content and threat prevention appliances offer a complete data protection solution. Click here. AT&T wins $5M cybersecurity deal with FTC AT&T Government Solutions announced Thursday that it has received an eight-year, $5 million contract to provide managed security services, intrusion notification and Web hosting services to the Federal Trade Commission. Read More Slew of Critical Updates from Microsoft Time flies. Another month has gone by and Patch Tuesday is upon us again. Microsoft is delivering a record-tying 13 security bulletins for February, a virtual avalanche of updates after a relatively quiet January that saw only one security bulletin on Patch Tuesday, and one released out-of-band mid-month to address a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that was used to launch attacks against Google and other companies in China. Read More ACLU objects to reported Google partnership with NSA The American Civil Liberties Union is asking its members to contact Google executives and ask them not to work with the U.S. National Security Agency to investigate cyberattacks allegedly coming from China. Read More Juniper helps Hitachi create value-added security services Hitachi Systems & Services, a large provider of systems integration services in Japan and a member of the Hitachi Group, is now a Juniper's Junos SDK application development partner. Read More
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