Should there be a Geneva Convention for fighting cyberwar?

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	Should there be a Geneva Convention for fighting cyberwar? The term "cyberwar" has been bandied about in recent years as a catchalll term for the hackers stealing credit card numbers or spreading spam, but also much more nefarious schemes such as breking into a electricity grid. At a recent cybersecurity conference, one Microsoft security executive said we might need global rules on how to fight such threats. 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! In this Issue Cybercrime tops Attorneys General meeting System to surgically jam electronics taking shape Faulty McAfee Update Burns IT Execs Facebook hires former Bush regulator for privacy defence AusCERT 2010: Hackers, lockpickers and cops Share Wireless Safely with Friends Twitter wipes out followers to kill bug Firewall audit tools: features and functions Symantec Study Mischaracterizes Linux Spam Court gives preliminary OK to $4M consumer settlement in Heartland case 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! Cybercrime tops Attorneys General meeting The Federal and State government attorney generals have agreed to establish a National Cybercrime Working Group to coordinate a response to online threats, including the increasing rate of bullying. Read More System to surgically jam electronics taking shape Raytheon BBN has gotten $8.3 million to begin developing a sophisticated electronic system to surgically jam specific digital signals generated by everything from cell phones to GPS devices, satellites and radios.  Known as the Precision Electronic Warfare (PREW), the goal of the technology will be able to surgically disable targets in small areas on demand without hindering or disabling friendly... Read More Faulty McAfee Update Burns IT Execs McAfee has taken steps to appease angry customers whose systems were crippled by a faulty antivirus software update that the company distributed late last month. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Understanding the Value of Managed Security UTM Solutions This Yankee Group paper describes why multiple security layers are needed to achieve comprehensive and cost-effective security solutions. Learn More Facebook hires former Bush regulator for privacy defence Facebook has hired lawyer Tim Muris, a former senior regulator in the Bush administration, to defend its privacy policies against government scrutiny. Read More AusCERT 2010: Hackers, lockpickers and cops Some of the world's greatest minds in IT security will gather in Queensland's Gold Coast for the annual AusCERT conference this month. Read More Share Wireless Safely with Friends USANomad asked the Answer Line forum how he can let visiting friends wirelessly access the Internet while protecting the PCs on his network. 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. Twitter wipes out followers to kill bug Twitter successfully quashed a bug by temporarily eliminating the followers/following lists of all users. Read More Firewall audit tools: features and functions Why would anyone need firewall audit software? If you're already jugging hundreds of rules on multiple firewalls, here's what these tools can do for you. Read More Symantec Study Mischaracterizes Linux Spam The latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report from Symantec Hosted Services is filled with interesting and useful information regarding the current state of malware and e-mail borne threats as well as the trends over time. Of particular interest to me is the assertion in the report that "any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine." Read More Court gives preliminary OK to $4M consumer settlement in Heartland case A federal court in Texas has preliminarily approved a $4 million settlement of a consumer class-action lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems Inc. over the massive data breach the payment processor disclosed in January 2009. Read More
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