Microsoft boosts access to secure development guidelines

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	Microsoft boosts access to secure development guidelines Company hopes more developers will take up SDL best practices with move to Creative Commons license Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Where Compliance and Data Protection Overlap Today's CISOs face more challenges than ever, including increased and more sophisticated threats, complex IT environments, decreased budgets, and greater compliance pressures. But these challenges present opportunity. Learn how CISOs can play these challenges to their advantage to meet both data protection and compliance demands. Read More! In this Issue Error Reporting Oops: Microsoft, Meter Maids and Malicious Code 3M offers $943M for biometric security vendor Cogent Systems NASA ice-watching satellite crashes into sea RIM gets 60 days reprieve as India evaluates its proposals Security at the Little League World Series Organizing sensitive data in the cloud Sources to protect you from the zero-day Windows DLL exploit Old Apple QuickTime code puts IE users in harm's way A good governance policy goes a long way Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some Is it safe to use a SIP trunk as your outbound dialing option? WHITE PAPER: Checkpoint Software Point Abra: A Secure Virtual Workspace Discover how you can turn any PC into your own corporate desktop with a fully encrypted USB stick. Read now! Error Reporting Oops: Microsoft, Meter Maids and Malicious Code Do you think hackers are dumb enough to send malicious code directly to Microsoft via Windows error reporting? Do you think Microsoft is foolish enough to flaunt scantily dressed women at a tech convention while celebrating women in IT? The answers are apparently yes to both, at least according to what happened Down Under last week. Read More 3M offers $943M for biometric security vendor Cogent Systems 3M has agreed to buy biometric access control systems vendor Cogent for around US$943 million in cash. Read More NASA ice-watching satellite crashes into sea NASA today said its Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation (ICESat) satellite splashed into the Barents Sea this morning ending a seven year mission to study the Earth's polar zones. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Seven Criteria for Evaluating SaaS The right Security-as-a-Service solution can perform reliably and effectively and deliver the flexibility and control associated with on-premise solutions — at a significantly lower cost — without compromising privacy and security. Read More RIM gets 60 days reprieve as India evaluates its proposals Proposals from Research In Motion (RIM) for lawful access of its networks by law enforcement agencies in India are being put into operation immediately, the government said Monday. Read More Security at the Little League World Series The 2010 Little League World Series wrapped up yesterday in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The series, which is the world's largest youth sporting event, took place over nine days and saw 30 games played between the best teams in Little League baseball. On its final day, more than 29,000 fans turned out to watch a Japanese team defeat a team from Waipahu, Hawaii. It is the first time a Japanese team has taken the title in the event's history. Read More Organizing sensitive data in the cloud What does a cloud vendor do to properly segment various types of sensitive data within its cloud? Gregory Machler discusses how to capture the metadata you'll need. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateway This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Symantec Hosted Services in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention). Read the entire report. Read Now Sources to protect you from the zero-day Windows DLL exploit Even though Microsoft is so far refusing to patch the critical Windows DLL vulnerability that has become the source of an ever growing number of new exploits, you can protect your systems now. But it won't be easy.The fix involves manually auditing which applications are vulnerable and then applying Microsoft's new fix-it tool. Many makers of Windows software, such as Wireshark, are also promising... Read More Old Apple QuickTime code puts IE users in harm's way Apple's failure to clean up old code in QuickTime leaves people running Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerable to drive-by attacks, a Spanish security researcher said today. Read More A good governance policy goes a long way The recent newsletters about data governance (or lack of it) and data breaches brought in a bunch of e-mail from friends and other readers noting other problems that had cropped up around the world showing just how bad things are. Read More Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic. Read More Is it safe to use a SIP trunk as your outbound dialing option? A recent product security announcement from Cisco (http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20100825-cucm.shtml) and a blog post by Chris Jackson (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/65442) made me feel it may appear that SIP trunking is not secure enough as a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) access method. Read More
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