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	After attacks, Adobe fixes Flash bug Less than a week after fielding reports that hackers were targeting a bug in its Flash Player software, Adobe Systems has rushed out a fix for the problem. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue iPad 3G Leak Flaw More Common than You Think US Coast Guard calls for high-tech help in BP oil disaster IBM, HP bump up corporate security services Online porn users take huge risks, study finds How to delete fake antivirus Trend Micro acquires U.K. cloud storage vendor humyo US lawmakers disturbed over Google's Wi-Fi snooping Grandkids to welcome 'uberveillance' Protect Windows XP from Zero-Day Flaw in HCP Protocol Socializing safely via the Internet Microsoft leaves some Office XP users patchless Remains of the Day: Sculley looks back, Portal pushed back Neither Google nor Googler can wash hands of Windows bug disclosure RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue iPad 3G Leak Flaw More Common than You Think AT&T is taking some well-deserved heat for a Web security flaw resulting in the exposure of more than 114,000 iPad 3G owners' e-mail addresses. Apple--by proxy--has also drawn some criticism as it apparently has some culpability in defining the authentication mechanism that was exploited. It is obviously a huge embarrassment for both AT&T and Apple, but the underlying issues, and other Web security issues like it, are actually quite common. Read More US Coast Guard calls for high-tech help in BP oil disaster The US Coast Guard has issued a call for better specialized technology to help it better respond to the ever-widening BP Deepwater oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More IBM, HP bump up corporate security services Getting a handle on application security vulnerabilities is the idea behind services and products from HP and IBM announced this week. Read More Online porn users take huge risks, study finds Online porn is one of the most hostile environments on the Internet but malware distribution itself appears to be only a profitable sideline for the adult industry, a new study has suggested. 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! How to delete fake antivirus QUESTION Our son's laptop has started throwing up virus alerts for Antivirus 7.0. We've searched online for a solution, but can't differentiate between genuine advice and yet more scareware. Andrew & Eileen Wood Read More Trend Micro acquires U.K. cloud storage vendor humyo Trend Micro has acquired humyo, an online storage and data synchronization company, to enhance its cloud security offerings. Read More US lawmakers disturbed over Google's Wi-Fi snooping Three U.S. congressmen who asked Google to explain why and how it collected data being transmitted over Wi-Fi networks from its Street View cameras were not placated by the search giant's response. Read More Grandkids to welcome 'uberveillance' You may reject the idea of a microchip implant, but your grandchildren could embrace them, according to an Australian professor. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. Protect Windows XP from Zero-Day Flaw in HCP Protocol Earlier this week was Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for June--a busy Patch Tuesday with ten new security bulletins fixing 34 different vulnerabilities. However, there is now a publicly disclosed vulnerability with potentially dire consequences that didn't make the list of patches this month. IT administrators need to understand the risks, and act now to mitigate the threat and protect Windows XP systems from the HCP protocol vulnerability. Read More Socializing safely via the Internet In my last column, I exhorted readers to contribute to integrating cyberspace into our young people's moral universe by getting out into their communities and speaking about Internet safety and other matters of interest. Read More Microsoft leaves some Office XP users patchless For the second time in nine months, Microsoft has declined to patch a vulnerability in an older product because creating a fix was "infeasible." Read More Remains of the Day: Sculley looks back, Portal pushed back A prodigal son returns to Apple, former Apple CEO John Sculley reflects on being the guy who fired the world's most successful businessman, and AT&T slips up on security. That and more in the remainders for June 9, 2010. Read More Neither Google nor Googler can wash hands of Windows bug disclosure Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy is either naïve or disingenuous when he protests that his controversial disclosure of an unpatched Microsoft bug reflects solely on him and not at all on his employer. Google is simply attempting damage control when it makes the same claim. The real world doesn't work that way. Read More
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