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	Survey sheds light on employees and data loss One of the best headlines I've ever seen, at least for a press release, crossed my inbox recently: "SailPoint survey shows employees are more apt to take company data than a stapler." Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Getting Started with Identity Compliance The Burton Group's, Kevin Kampman, provides an overview of the latest technology for identity management. He'll help you sift through key, mandatory requirements and features and functionality that can wait. Kevin offers guidance on how you can get a 360-degree view of users' access and behavior, best practices and a real-world implementation. View Now. In this Issue Microsoft Binary Planting Bug: What You Need to Know Nasty auto robocaller forced to pay $2.3M, sell Mercedes iTunes Scam: How to Protect Yourself Rustock botnet ditches encryption to ramp spam Worried About ID Theft? Join the Club Hackers bait Zeus botnet trap with dead celeb tales Malicious Spam Exploits Fake Celebrity Deaths Philadelphia not showing any brotherly blogger love: City wants $300 license fee Windows DLL load hijacking exploits go wild Foursquare Privacy Basics: 5 Tips to 'Secure' Your Check-Ins Visa offers new guidance on securing payment applications WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs The Wild, Wild Web: How to 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 Microsoft Binary Planting Bug: What You Need to Know Microsoft released a security advisory in response to a potential exploit, known as DLL preloading or binary planting, which has been found to impact hundreds of third-party Windows applications--possibly including software developed by Microsoft itself. Unfortunately, this isn't a simple Windows vulnerability that Microsoft can fix with its next patch release, so it's important that you understand the flaw and what is at risk, as well as what you can do to protect your systems. Read More Nasty auto robocaller forced to pay $2.3M, sell Mercedes At least this time one of these scammers is actually being hit in the wallet. Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission one of the telemarketers who blasted consumers with millions of illegal auto warranty robocalls last year will pay approximately $2.3 million in redress and give up his Mercedes. Read More iTunes Scam: How to Protect Yourself In recent weeks, more and more iTunes users have been reporting fraudulent activity on their Apple accounts, reporting hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of bogus purchases. With the reports of this type of fraud on the uptick in recent weeks, many users have been quick to blame Apple or PayPal, as many of the affected iTunes accounts were linked to PayPal accounts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Zenprise 10 Enterprise iphone OS Security Best Practices In this white paper, we identify ten best practices that you should consider implementing immediately to best support iPhone OS devices. Read More Rustock botnet ditches encryption to ramp spam The Rustock mega-botnet appears to have ditched the experimental use of TLS (transport layer security) to obscure its activity, Symantec has reported. Read More Worried About ID Theft? Join the Club Nearly two-thirds of Americans are concerned that information about their bank accounts, credit cards and identity may be stolen from their computers, according to a survey released today by a provider of identity theft protection services. Read More Hackers bait Zeus botnet trap with dead celeb tales Spam messages touting fictional tales of celebrity deaths are prompting users to open attachments that are adding their machines to the Zeus botnet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xerox KeyCorp Transforms document services in the office. KeyCorp, a leading financial services company, reduced printing costs, decreased document devices used, and standardized equipment service and support while promoting supplier diversity and environmental responsibility. Watch the Video. Malicious Spam Exploits Fake Celebrity Deaths Miley Cyrus is fine. Beyoncé did not perish in a plane crash. Brad Pitt did not meet an untimely demise. Everyone take a deep breath and--whatever you do--do NOT click on any file or link that arrives as a part of a sensational e-mail declaring a celebrity death. Read More Philadelphia not showing any brotherly blogger love: City wants $300 license fee The City of Philadelphia has found a sure fire way to piss off the entire Internet community by demanding a $300 "business privilege license" for local bloggers. Specifically, bloggers can pay $300 for a lifetime license or $50 per year. Do we need a Federal law for electronics recycling? Oh yeah, and the city wants taxes on any profits the blog might have made - that would be in addition to any... Read More Windows DLL load hijacking exploits go wild Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn't patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code appeared Tuesday to exploit the company's software. Read More Foursquare Privacy Basics: 5 Tips to 'Secure' Your Check-Ins It's hardly practical to believe there are "right" and "wrong" ways to employ social networking services like Twitter or Facebook. However, there are "smart" and/or "safe" methods of use, especially for location-based services (LBS) that identify your whereabouts at a given time, like popular social network/LBS Foursquare. Read More Visa offers new guidance on securing payment applications Visa this week added new best practices for makers of payment applications and those using them. Read More
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