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	Report rips key government security efforts You'd think maybe just once one of these examinations of government agency network security efforts would turn up some good news.  Not today.   Read More ARTICLE: Sophos FREE Data Leakage for Dummies Book from Sophos You need to protect your company's most valuable asset – your data. Request a book today! In this Issue Pendulum swinging away from anonymous comments The dirt locker: Dirty duty on the front lines of IT Send Secure Info Over the Internet Why Hackers Love the Cloud Advanced persistent threat With Luxand Blink, Your Face Is Your Password Virtualization and cloud security modeled on NAC Nifty Java bug could lead to attack Researcher warns of impending PDF attack wave WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Group Performance Report Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More! Pendulum swinging away from anonymous comments It seems that more and more news organizations are rethinking the wisdom and value of allowing anonymous comments. And that rethinking is leading some to conclude that anonymous comments are neither as wise nor as valuable as has long been accepted. The New York Times had a story about it over the weekend: Read More The dirt locker: Dirty duty on the front lines of IT Seven more nasty tech jobs that make you want to bathe Read More Send Secure Info Over the Internet Michael Spector (and yes, he's my brother) asked how to safely email passwords, account numbers, and other sensitive information. Read More VIRTUAL EVENT: CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld & Network World Live Security Panel – April 28th Join us on April 28th for a live virtual event that will provide candid, expert advice on top security challenges and issues – all from the comfort of your desktop. Get in on the discussion - from the unique challenges presented by cloud computing and virtualization to the mass adoption of social media. Attend and you may win a Kindle! Why Hackers Love the Cloud The growth of cloud services has led many enterprises to move data and applications to the cloud, but the hacker community is also moving there. With content consolidation and multi-tenant infrastructures comes more opportunities for hackers to steal data or conduct DDoS attacks with greater ease. Danny McPherson, VP and Chief Security Officer at Arbor Networks, discusses some of the ways hackers are eyeing cloud services and what IT can to to face these threats. (12:51) Read More Advanced persistent threat The focus on security has shifted from network security to enterprise information protection, where the main point is simple: data is the focus for both the offense and the defense, and the cost of defense grows more quickly than the cost of offense. Read More With Luxand Blink, Your Face Is Your Password Luxand Blink! is a free product from Luxand, a maker of facial recognition and image editing software. What Blink! does is allow a PC equipped with a webcam to scan your face during the login process. If it matches a previously saved template, it will allow you to login by facial recognition instead of password. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. The Full Story on WAAS Cost Saving Benefits Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) can deliver a very favorable ROI within 11 months says Forrester Consulting in this informative report. WAAS lets you effectively choose how to deploy applications, store data and provision infrastructure services between branch and data center locations. Learn More Virtualization and cloud security modeled on NAC Virtualization and cloud computing have disrupted the security industry to its core. We have not quite figured out how to deal with very dynamic infrastructure while most security is implemented in a mostly static ring of devices surrounding the resources they protect. Read More Nifty Java bug could lead to attack A Google researcher has published details of a Java virtual machine bug that could be used to run unauthorized programs on a computer. Read More Researcher warns of impending PDF attack wave A design flaw in Adobe's popular PDF format will quickly be exploited by hackers to install financial malware on users' computers, a security company argued today. Read More
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