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	MS Continues 'Feast or Famine' Patch Tuesday Cycle Microsoft Patch Tuesday is here again. For May, Microsoft only has two new security bulletins, both rated as Critical by Microsoft. MS10-030 addresses a vulnerability affecting Outlook Express and Windows Mail, and MS10-031 resolves an issue with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) impacting Microsoft Office. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Cloud-Managed WiFi Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here. In this Issue Firefox lends security hand to rival browsers Call in the military to blast rogue satellite? Chatty Skype worm tries to fox antivirus programs Botnet hijacks web servers for DDoS campaign 4 things Facebook doesn't tell you about privacy, security Firewall audit and big-picture risk assessment Guilty plea after botnet tested with DDoS on ISP Microsoft pushes 'bottom of the barrel' patches Software piracy rate up 2% in 2009, study finds WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! Firefox lends security hand to rival browsers Mozilla has launched a tool that lets users of rival browsers, including IE, Chrome, Safari and Opera, determine whether important add-ons may be vulnerable to attack. Read More Call in the military to blast rogue satellite? Will the military need to be called in to blow up the rogue Intelsat satellite meandering through Earth's orbit?  Or maybe a NASA Space Shuttle could swing by and grab it?  Read More Chatty Skype worm tries to fox antivirus programs A new instant messaging (IM) worm has been spotted using a number of evolved techniques to beat installed security programs and catch even suspicious users off-guard. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenges. Read now. Botnet hijacks web servers for DDoS campaign Researchers at Imperva have discovered an 'experimental' botnet that uses around 300 hijacked web servers to launch high-bandwidth DDoS attacks. Read More 4 things Facebook doesn't tell you about privacy, security Let us be perfectly clear: While Facebook has received a lot of criticism lately about its new privacy policies and Open Graph concept, which allows them to partner with other sites which will also have access to some Facebook user data, Facebook isn't explicitly keeping secrets from you. But some security professionals and users continually knock the site for what they say are less-than-clear explanations about where your data is going, and how secure the site really is. Read More Firewall audit and big-picture risk assessment Generally speaking, firewall audit tools evaluate individual firewalls, even if they can do so for hundreds of them. Some are slowly moving toward a more networkwide risk-assessment approach and the ability to evaluate not only each device, but how devices relate to one another--their mutual dependencies across the network. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Guilty plea after botnet tested with DDoS on ISP The second man charged in 2006 computer attacks on The Planet and T35 Hosting has agreed to plead guilty. Read More Microsoft pushes 'bottom of the barrel' patches Microsoft today patched two critical vulnerabilities in Office, the Visual Basic for Applications development tool and its Windows e-mail clients. Read More Software piracy rate up 2% in 2009, study finds Expanding PC sales in emerging market is increasing the rate of software piracy, according to a recent study by industry watchers. Read More
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