'Likejacking' exploit fools Facebook users and friends

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	'Likejacking' exploit fools Facebook users and friends Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users were hit over the holiday weekend by a trick that spreads a clickjacking worm once the victim has been fooled into "liking" a page. Once that is done the action installs a Trojan and recommends the page to the victim's friends. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Websense Websense® TRITON™ — Unifying Web, Data, and Email Security Websense TRITON™ is the IT industry's first and only unified content security architecture that integrates best-in class Web, email and Data security technologies into a single solution set. Unrivaled, TRITON brings to market the best security against modern threats at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Click to continue In this Issue FTC shoves identity theft rule deadline to year-end Report: Google Ditches Windows Over Security Issues UnboundID upgrades Directory Services platform Satellite gap fuels climate, weather monitoring worry 7 essential business negotiation tactics SaaS's Troubled Adolescence: 3 Signs of Immaturity Intego warns Mac users of OSX/OpinionSpy Spyware threat Hackers will keep hammering Facebook, say researchers Internet Privacy Worries Are Eroding, Pew Finds 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! FTC shoves identity theft rule deadline to year-end Pestered by lawsuits and requests from congress the Federal Trade Commission said it will further delay the enforcement of its Red Flags identity theft protection rule to December 31, 2010, while Congress considers changes to legislation that could alter the rule's coverage areas.  The rule was to go into law June 1 and has been delayed many times since the original implementations date of Nov. Read... Read More Report: Google Ditches Windows Over Security Issues Google employees are slamming Microsoft's Windows operating system, claiming security vulnerabilities in the OS left the company open to Chinese hackers in January 2010, a new report says. According to the Financial Times, Google will ditch the internal use of Windows in exchange for alternative operating systems including the Mac OS, Linux, and Google's own forthcoming Chrome OS operating system. Read More UnboundID upgrades Directory Services platform In the last issue I lamented about the wealth of conferences and trade shows that are identity related. Two others I missed while I was traveling in Europe were Denver's Gluecon and the Smart Card Alliance Annual Meeting. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell File Management Suite Better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn to get a handle on the unchecked proliferation of data. Read Now Satellite gap fuels climate, weather monitoring worry Gaps in key climate and space weather satellite technology could hurt scientists' ability to predict, monitor and understand long-term climate changes, space weather and other Read More 7 essential business negotiation tactics Want to negotiate more effectively in professional and personal settings? Talk less and listen more. Read More SaaS's Troubled Adolescence: 3 Signs of Immaturity A new Forrester Research survey of enterprise software buyers sheds light on SaaS's blind spots: troubling security concerns, hidden integration costs, and data migration challenges. 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. Intego warns Mac users of OSX/OpinionSpy Spyware threat Intego has warned Mac users of a potential new threat. Intego claims to have discovered a spyware application that is installed by a number of freely distributed Mac applications and screen savers found online, without specifying the details. Read More Hackers will keep hammering Facebook, say researchers Attacks targeting Facebook users will continue, and could easily become even more dangerous, a security researcher said today. Read More Internet Privacy Worries Are Eroding, Pew Finds Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's vision for a less private Internet is slowly coming to fruition, a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests. Read More
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