What You Don't Know about Your Online Reputation Can Hurt You

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	What You Don't Know about Your Online Reputation Can Hurt You Social networking, and the broader concept of online privacy, have been under some rather intense scrutiny over the past couple of weeks. The issues at Google--voracious indexer of all things Internet, and Facebook--the largest social network and number one most visited site (according to Google) have made many users more acutely aware of what information is available about them on the Internet. However, your online reputation is being used in ways you may not be aware of, and could cost you. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue Endpoint security: managing enterprise smartphone risk Don't Let Your PC Join the Zombie Hordes Enterprise risk management: all systems go $100 million 'scareware' CEO was already a fugitive The hottest images of cool outer space Internet Identity Workshop reveals OpenID clashes Google Wi-Fi Snooping Should Serve As Security Wakeup Call US needs plan for online terrorism recruiting, expert says 44 million stolen gaming credentials found in online warehouse Exchange 2010 the cure for CDC's e-mail bugs 10 useful Firefox-based apps 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 Endpoint security: managing enterprise smartphone risk Almost by the day, enterprises are becoming more receptive to the consumerisation of IT and introduction of mobile devices and platforms into their environment. Read More Don't Let Your PC Join the Zombie Hordes You may not be aware of this, but aside from Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day, and Memorial Day, there is another important event in the month of May--Zombie Awareness Month. While the month is intended to honor the sort of Zombieland, Night of the Living Dead, or Michael Jackson's Thriller type zombies, it also seems like an appropriate time to address PC zombies and how to ensure that the computers on your network don't become compromised and join the zombie hordes. Read More Enterprise risk management: all systems go When Bill Badertscher arrived at Georgetown University three years ago, campuswide security was handled in several departments with little coordination among teams. It was time for a change. Badertscher is Georgetown's senior engineer for facility and safety control systems and leader of a new IT team that focuses on the same areas. The goal is to address enterprise risk management (ERM) by redefining it to include nontraditional systems. Understanding that security is mission-critical has led the University Safety and Information Services departments to work together in unprecedented ways. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! $100 million 'scareware' CEO was already a fugitive The CEO of a company accused of making more than US$100 million selling harmful "scareware" antivirus products was already a fugitive from U.S. authorities, following his arrest in 2008 on criminal counterfeiting charges. Read More The hottest images of cool outer space Black holes, hungry planets, weird orbits dominate space news Read More Internet Identity Workshop reveals OpenID clashes There are too many identity-related trade shows and conferences spread over venues all over the world and not enough time to get to them all. It's a far cry from when we started this newsletter 10 years ago, and the increased interest in identity issues should be applauded, but I can't be everywhere at once! 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! Google Wi-Fi Snooping Should Serve As Security Wakeup Call The continuing saga of Google's wireless snooping and the maelstrom it's generated won't end anytime soon. Peeved government officials in both Europe and the U.S. are pressing Google for more details on how the search company's Street View cars managed to cull personal data from Wi-Fi networks that weren't password-protected. Read More US needs plan for online terrorism recruiting, expert says The U.S. government lacks a plan to counter terrorist recruiting efforts online, even though such efforts by jihad groups are growing, one terrorism expert told U.S. lawmakers. Read More 44 million stolen gaming credentials found in online warehouse Symantec says it has unearthed a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts -- and one of the most surprising aspects of it is that the accounts were being validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. Read More Exchange 2010 the cure for CDC's e-mail bugs IT people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention need to use their high tech skills to fight the H1N1 flu or stop the spread of tuberculosis -- not manage the e-mail system. So the federal agency turned to a company called Azaleos Corp. to manage its migration from the Microsoft Exchange 2003 e-mail server to Exchange 2010, a process they started this week. Read More 10 useful Firefox-based apps Mozilla's underlying Web browser technology also runs non-browser applications Read More
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