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	The pros and cons of Windows 7 security Businesses are eyeing a transition to Microsoft Windows 7, and with a wealth of security features that are part of it, it's worth figuring out the good and bad about each of them, says Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald, who notes in some cases, third-party security products might be the better fit. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc. 12-point checklist outlines key considerations Discover a 12-point checklist for choosing the best vulnerability management solution for your organization. Read now! In this Issue State of the CSO 2010: Progress and peril Misconfigured Cisco gear could lead to Wi-Fi breach Identity Ecosystem: One Identifier To Rule Your Life? The 10 Most Uncool Moments in Tech Hackers vandalise 200 web sites, cripple 150 Yahoo adds security and workflow management to Hadoop Google steals security page from Mozilla's Firefox Fraudulent term papers: A breach of authenticity German regulators welcome street panorama privacy law draft Social networks leak your information, study says RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue State of the CSO 2010: Progress and peril Security is very old in most respects, yet very young in others. As a corporate discipline, security unfortunately languished for years in the basement. Read More Misconfigured Cisco gear could lead to Wi-Fi breach Users of a popular Cisco Systems wireless access point may be setting themselves up for trouble if they leave a WPA wireless migration feature enabled, according to researchers at Core Security Technologies. Read More Identity Ecosystem: One Identifier To Rule Your Life? Here's your chance to be heard about security and privacy. Do you like having many online usernames and passwords, or do you like placing all your eggs in one identity basket? The White House and Department of Homeland Security want to hear what you think about their plans regarding an Identity Ecosystem. Read More DOWNLOAD: Qualys Inc. Security & Compliance Suite Trial QualysGuard Security & Compliance Suite Trial The 14-day Trial includes: • Unlimited network mapping and discovery • Unlimited network perimeter scans • PCI Compliance scanning • Web application security scanning • IT security policy creation, scanning and reporting Learn More! The 10 Most Uncool Moments in Tech That Jeff Lebowski was one cool dude. Read More Hackers vandalise 200 web sites, cripple 150 The web sites of more than a whopping 200 Australian organisations were hijacked and vandalised in a spate of hacks last week. Read More Yahoo adds security and workflow management to Hadoop Yahoo is integrating Hadoop with the Kerberos authentication standard, allowing for secure collaboration and multi-tenancy Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc. Justifying IT Security The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. Read now! Google steals security page from Mozilla's Firefox Google plans to take a page from Mozilla's playbook and block outdated plug-ins from launching, part of new efforts to keep Chrome users safer. Read More Fraudulent term papers: A breach of authenticity Authenticity is one of the six fundamental attributes of information (the Parkerian Hexad – see "Crime, Use of Computers In" from the Encyclopedia of Information Systems) that we strive to protect through information assurance. Submitting a term paper to a teacher as fulfillment of an academic requirement when the paper has been written to order by a ghost writer is a breach of authenticity as described by Donn B. Parker in his writings (see for example Chapter 10 of Fighting Computer Crime: A New Framework for Protecting Information). Read More German regulators welcome street panorama privacy law draft German privacy regulators have welcomed a proposal to extend laws protecting Germans' right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of their homes in online street panoramas, the Hamburg privacy regulator said Monday. Read More Social networks leak your information, study says A study finds that shows that mobile social networks are giving data about users' physical locations to tracking sites and other social networking services. Read More
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