Windows 7 Tips: Best Security Features

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	Windows 7 Tips: Best Security Features Do you understand and use the new security features in Windows 7? From encryption to malware fighters, here's a look at the key Windows 7 tools that keep enterprise and home PCs safe and secure. 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. In this Issue Google Hot Search a good tool for spreaders of malware and their adversaries Military's robotic pack mule comes to life for $32M Cloud security: Try these techniques now Botnet targets major Web sites with junk SSL connection NASA has tons of cool space technologies that may never get to space Fact, fiction and the Internet GAO calls for more testing of whole body scanners Bugs & Fixes: Adobe Reader phishing scam Internal data breaches a rarity, study finds 77% of web users targeted by phishing scams 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. Google Hot Search a good tool for spreaders of malware and their adversaries Google Hot Search topics are turning out to be a useful tool for security researchers at SonicWall who are trying to find URLs for malicious Web sites as well as signatures to help block the malware they contain. Read More Military's robotic pack mule comes to life for $32M What kind of robot will automatically follow a leader, carry 400 lbs of military gear, walk 20 miles in all manner of weather and go 24 hours without refueling? Read More Cloud security: Try these techniques now For Logiq³ Inc., the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a matter of cost and flexibility. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Windows 7 security With the public release of Windows 7 debates and discussions have been raging on the security improvements in the new platform, and some potential problems have also emerged. In this white paper, we run through the most significant changes and additions, and look at what they might mean to users and administrators. Read now. Botnet targets major Web sites with junk SSL connection More than 300 Web sites are being pestered by infected computers that are part of the Pushdo botnet, according to security researchers. Read More NASA has tons of cool space technologies that may never get to space It will be a question of money over priorities. NASA is expected to release its budget for the next year and it doesn't look good for some ongoing projects – the Ares heavy lift rocket likely the biggest cut. If further manned exploration of the moon is significantly delayed or nixed altogether, what does that mean for the myriad technologies NASA already has in development? Here's a look at some of the best NASA technology currently in development that might never get to space. Read More Fact, fiction and the Internet In their simplest form, many social networking sites are not much more than online diaries. Whether you're thinking of Bridget Jones or Adrian Mole, Alan Clark or Samuel Pepys, most of us realize that a diary is just someone's personal view, and not a reliable source of indisputable information. Most of us except for financial institutions, that is, or so it appears. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire FISMA Prescriptive Guide Learn how Tripwire helps federal agencies, as well as the organizations and contractors that store, process or transmit federal information. The FISMA Prescriptive Guide contains case studies from three fictional federal agencies, each capturing the perspective of a key stakeholder in the FISMA compliance process. Click here. GAO calls for more testing of whole body scanners A Government Accountability Office report this week called on the Transportation Security Administration to ensure that the controversial Whole Body Imager technologies the agency is planning on deploying at airports nationally first undergo thorough operational and vulnerability testing. Read More Bugs & Fixes: Adobe Reader phishing scam Want to avoid becoming the victim of a phishing scam? It's usually easy, because most scammers are too inept or too lazy to do a decent job of the deception. Case in point: I received an e-mail this week, purportedly from Adobe, announcing "a new version of PDF Reader/Writer." (Even though it was Windows-only software, the general advice regarding phishing applies to Mac users as well.) Read More Internal data breaches a rarity, study finds Internal data breaches might keep CSOs awake at night, but they appear to be a rare event, a university analysis of reported UK compromises has found. Read More 77% of web users targeted by phishing scams More than three quarters (77 percent) of web users have been targeted by an online phishing scam, says CPP. Read More
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