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	Smartphone wave challenges enterprise security With ever more employees clamoring to use smartphones for both personal and business purposes, IT and security managers are forced to answer tough questions. 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 In this Issue Privacy Wars: How to Hide While Google is Watching You Zeus malware used pilfered digital certificate IT security auditors are NOT evil and could keep you from getting hacked More than 1 in 10 Mozilla bug finders turn down cash Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox Adobe Scrambles to Fix PDF Flaw Web add-ons compromise 'private browsing' Employees ignore IT security: survey DHS quietly dispatching teams to test power plant cybersecurity WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Choosing the Right Active Directory Bridge Solution for You A solid Active Directory (AD) bridge in your diverse IT environment allows Unix, Linux and Mac systems to coexist with a Windows infrastructure. Further, it consolidates countless identities and passwords for improved security and productivity (and reduced complexity and cost). Read More Privacy Wars: How to Hide While Google is Watching You You know Google is constantly collecting vast information on you, but do you truly know much or how to hide? If you use Gmail, Google knows every email that you ever received, sent, or saved as a draft, even if you deleted it. Read More Zeus malware used pilfered digital certificate Researchers at Trend Micro have found that a widespread piece of malware used a digital certificate from a competing security company's product in an attempt to look legitimate. Read More IT security auditors are NOT evil and could keep you from getting hacked As I sit here writing my first blog entry, while attempting to recover from a week in Las Vegas spent taking in the sights, sounds, and insanity that only Black Hat and DEF CON can inflict on a mere mortal (robots and ninjas are immune, or so I have been told), I can't help but to be amazed by how many security issues could be prevented with a strong security auditing and assessment program. Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Learn the 3 Best Practices for Securing E-mail Any IT manager will tell you it's critical to protect data. With information flowing freely today via mobile devices, collaboration technologies and unified communications, it isn't easy. Learn data leak prevention (DLP) triage and the steps to protect proprietary data in e-mail, while also complying with government and industry regulations. Read now! More than 1 in 10 Mozilla bug finders turn down cash The open-source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash. Read More Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox Taking a page from Google's playbook, Mozilla plans to introduce silent, behind-the-scenes security updating to Firefox 4 -- but only for Windows users. Read More Adobe Scrambles to Fix PDF Flaw Adobe is rushing to develop a patch for a vulnerability in Acrobat Reader revealed at the Black Hat security conference. The update--expected the week of August 16--will be the third time this year that Adobe has been forced to fix flaws outside of its regularly scheduled quarterly update pattern. Read More 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! Web add-ons compromise 'private browsing' Security researchers have revealed that 'private browsing' modes on web browsers, which are designed to remove all traces of the sites a user has visited, can leak information. Read More Employees ignore IT security: survey New global research has found that most IT security administrators believe social networking, Internet applications and widgets have significantly lowered the security posture of their organisation. Read More DHS quietly dispatching teams to test power plant cybersecurity The Department of Homeland Security is quietly creating teams of experts charged with assessing the cybersecurity needs of power plants in the U.S. Read More
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