Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns

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	Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns I've got good news and bad news for those of the misguided perception that Linux is somehow impervious to attack or compromise. The bad news is that it turns out a vast collection of Linux systems may, in fact, be pwned. The good news, at least for IT administrators and organizations that rely on Linux as a server or desktop operating system, is that the Trojan is in a game download so it should have no bearing on Linux in a business setting. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ArcSight Gaining a "House Advantage" Over Modern Threats Today's businesses are highly interdependent & need the advantage to beat the odds against a coordinated cyber attack. Join this webinar of cybersecurity experts as they discuss some of the architectural issues that enable modern security threats as well as techniques for shutting them down & new solutions for detecting & stopping cybercrimes. Click to continue In this Issue AT&T 'dishonest' about iPad attack threat, say hackers Google, Microsoft online apps both fail over privacy ... Microsoft says Google security researcher put Windows customers at risk Adobe Fixes Flash Zero-Day with Massive Security Update 15 reasons why Mars is one hot, hot, hot planet iPad e-mail hackers defend attack as 'ethical' What's in a smartphone processor? Increasingly a lot Apps must disconnect to survive Using e-mail safely and well RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue AT&T 'dishonest' about iPad attack threat, say hackers The hackers who harvested more than 100,000 Apple iPad 3G owner e-mail addresses blasted AT&T as "dishonest" today, and said the group has an exploit it or others could have used against all iPad owners. Read More Google, Microsoft online apps both fail over privacy ... Microsoft and Google are no longer pretending to play nice. They have attacked each other with virtual blood spilled on each side. While these two giants are busy battling for dominance, will you suffer as your right to privacy falls by the wayside? Read More Microsoft says Google security researcher put Windows customers at risk Microsoft accused a Google security researcher of putting Windows customers at risk of "broad attacks" by publishing code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability.As reported by Gregg Keizer of Computerworld, Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy "posted details of the vulnerability and proof-of-concept attack code," in a move that was controversial because he had only notified Microsoft a few days... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Strategies for Unleashing Cloud Performance Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Click here! Adobe Fixes Flash Zero-Day with Massive Security Update Adobe has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons recently with new attacks exploiting flaws in Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader. Adobe has addressed the security vulnerabilities now with an immense update resolving a variety of serious issues. Read More 15 reasons why Mars is one hot, hot, hot planet No matter how you look at it Mars is one hot planet these days. President Obama talked about going there, NASA continues to pump almost weekly new discovery information from the red planet, lots of money is being spent to develop exploration instruments and now there is a group of "astronauts" in Europe locked into a faux spaceship, pretending to fly there. Read More iPad e-mail hackers defend attack as 'ethical' The hackers who harvested an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad 3G owner e-mail addresses defended their actions Friday as "ethical" and said they did nothing illegal. 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 What's in a smartphone processor? Increasingly a lot Over the past few years, many processor chips have moved far beyond the traditional functions of plain old central processing units (CPUs) and are now responsible for a wide array of functions including power saving, system memory and video processing. Read More Apps must disconnect to survive If your mobile application can't work inside a lift, or crashes though train tunnels then you need to back to the drawing board, says one Windows Phone 7 developer. Read More Using e-mail safely and well In recent columns, I've been posting notes for public discussions on topics of Internet safety and appropriate behavior held at the Brown Public Library in Northfield, Vt. Today's column is the one-pager I distributed at the second of the discussions, which dealt with a few key points about using e-mail effectively and safely. Many of the points were drawn from articles originally published in this column over several years and collected in "Using E-mail Safely and Well" which is freely available for distribution (but not for re-posting on public Web sites). Read More
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