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Click to continue In this Issue Five ways to beat the Great Firewall of China Howard Schmidt: Cybersecurity Battle 'Different' iPhone, Safari, IE8, Firefox all fall on day one of Pwn2Own Police, security officials meet on cybercrime strategies Data loss prevention – a priority for 2010 Cyberattacks are 'existential threat' to U.S., FBI says Symantec offering Web Monitoring service to detect botnet activity Gmail now warns users of suspicious account activity Zero days to infect, but a day and a half to fix French police make arrest in hijacking of Obama's Twitter account Cybersecurity bill passes first hurdle Top U.S. domain name registrars lag on DNS security Tips for crafting a great workplace IT security awareness program DOWNLOAD: RIM Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Now. Five ways to beat the Great Firewall of China Despite China's best efforts, its citizens can access banned content over the Internet via Google and other means Read More Howard Schmidt: Cybersecurity Battle 'Different' White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt on working with President Obama, gaining access to new resources, and the status of specific cybersecurity initiatives Read More iPhone, Safari, IE8, Firefox all fall on day one of Pwn2Own Hackers took down Apple's iPhone and Safari browser, Microsoft's Internet Explore 8 (IE8) and Mozilla's Firefox within minutes at today's Pwn2Own contest, as expected. Read More Police, security officials meet on cybercrime strategies When the "ILOVEYOU" worm crippled computer systems worldwide 10 years ago this spring, authorities in the Philippines didn't even have a law to properly charge its author. 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Read More Symantec offering Web Monitoring service to detect botnet activity Symantec Tuesday announced a Web monitoring service intended to unearth evidence of botnet-related malware activity within an organization by continuously looking at outbound HTTP traffic for suspicious signs of Trojans on compromised computers trying to "call home" to their criminal controllers. Read More Gmail now warns users of suspicious account activity Google today added an alert to Gmail that warns users of the Web mail service when their account may have been hijacked. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! Zero days to infect, but a day and a half to fix Over the last couple weeks, we've had some interesting security challenges here at my company. Policy compliance has been keeping me busy, and if that weren't enough, we've been having more fun with viruses. Read More French police make arrest in hijacking of Obama's Twitter account An unemployed Frenchman who used the online handle Hacker Croll has been arrested by French police for hijacking President Obamas Twitter account, and that of numerous others, according to news service Agence-France Presse. Read More Cybersecurity bill passes first hurdle A closely watched bill that promises to introduce some major changes on the federal cybersecurity front was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee today just days after it was introduced by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Read More Top U.S. domain name registrars lag on DNS security The leading domain name registrars in the United States appear to be dragging their feet on the deployment of DNS Security Extensions, an emerging standard that prevents an insidious type of hacking attack where network traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or user knowing. Read More Tips for crafting a great workplace IT security awareness program IT security pros share tips on implementing information security awareness programs in the workplace at SecureWorld Boston Read More
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