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	Microsoft probes new Windows kernel bug Microsoft is investigating an unpatched vulnerability in Windows after an Israeli researcher revealed a bug in the operating system's kernel driver. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks Re-Inventing Network Security Enterprise networks and applications have evolved but security infrastructure has not. Learn why application visibility and control (regardless of port, protocol, or encryption) are critical for preventing increasingly sophisticated threats that target enterprise users and data. Read now! In this Issue FTC busts domain name scammers Is There Still Such a Thing as Privacy - and Should There Be? SonicWall TZ200: Good mix of connectivity and security Security Manager's Journal: Incident shows IP still at risk Is there a patch for stupid? Living with the knowledge that we're infected BBC red faced as 146 laptops disappear Tire tags reveal driver whereabouts Browser 'Privacy Modes' Not So Private After All Adobe Should Be More Proactive About Security Network admin Terry Childs gets 4-year sentence WHITE PAPER: NetApp ESG Report: Driving storage efficiency in SAN environments This ESG paper outlines the considerations for architecting an efficient SAN data storage infrastructure with a focus on the NetApp solutions for increased utilization, improved performance and streamlined protection to reduce operational costs. Read More! FTC busts domain name scammers The Federal Trade Commission said today that it had permanently killed the operations of a group that it said posed as domain name registrars and convinced thousands of US consumers, small businesses and non-profit organizations to pay bogus bills by leading them to believe they would lose their Web site addresses if they didn't. Read More Is There Still Such a Thing as Privacy - and Should There Be? I recently expressed the opinion that individual privacy is indeed important, and should in fact be the default in all business and governmental relationships. As we're taking politics here (privacy is the political side of security), the opposite position is worth at least some discussion, to wit: nothing should be private; only criminals have any need to hide their communications. Read More SonicWall TZ200: Good mix of connectivity and security Prices for SonicWall products are hard to pin down because, while the firewall and router have no client license fees, adding support for security features such as enhanced client anti-virus and anti-spyware, VPN Client Windows, UTM SSL VPNs, and a few other options need user licenses. Figure around the $400 to $450 range to start, depending on whether you add wireless support, and tally up your options from there. 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 Security Manager's Journal: Incident shows IP still at risk It can take a bit of luck sometimes to find out about a security problem. A recent incident illustrates this and the need to do more to eliminate luck from the matter. Read More Is there a patch for stupid? I was speaking with the security group of a customer the other day and they were complaining about how 80% of their security incident were because of users doing stupid things on the Internet. They kept pointing to reports highlighting how their users generated so much work for them through malware cleanup and downtime. This conversation got me thinking about what those reports were really showing.... Read More Living with the knowledge that we're infected Even as average enterprise security spending has risen over the years from 2% of the total IT budget to 10%, the percentage of compromised corporate machines has also climbed, now up to 7% to 9% by some estimates. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Five Network Security Threats Discover the five most costly network security threats and see how you can protect your business with a layered security approach. Read Now. BBC red faced as 146 laptops disappear BBC staff have managed to lose 146 laptops worth a total of £240,000 in only two years, tracking security company Absolute Software has managed to discover. Read More Tire tags reveal driver whereabouts Automobile tire pressure monitoring systems show little concern for security Read More Browser 'Privacy Modes' Not So Private After All All the major web browsers have a privacy mode that's supposed to cover a user's tracks after he or she finishes an Internet session, but a trio of researchers have found those modes fail to purge all traces of a Net surfer's activities. Read More Adobe Should Be More Proactive About Security Adobe will release an emergency patch, expected within two weeks, to plug a security flaw in Adobe Reader, the latest in a series of the program's recent vulnerabilities. The problem is, this flaw was found through a presentation at the Black Hat conference last week, and not by Adobe's security team. Read More Network admin Terry Childs gets 4-year sentence A City of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city's network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday. 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