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	Many Android apps leak user privacy data Researchers have created Android-based code that tracks what applications on a smartphone actually do with the data they have access to. They do a lot, it turns out, and most of what they do is unknown to the enduser Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage for Windows Environments This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More! In this Issue MIT researchers tout network intrusion recovery system IE users most at risk from DLL hijacking attacks How to secure a new PC Worlds collide: Apple iPhone app manages mainframe The shape of threats to come ZeuS botnet has a new use: Stealing bank access codes via SMS Microsoft Strengthens Security for Hotmail Android software piracy rampant despite Google's efforts to curb Why CIOs are Resetting Information Security Priorities Crypto Wars: EFF Urges Us To Stand Up and Defend Privacy WHITE PAPER: NetApp Get Storage Efficiency and Data Protection This paper will show how NetApp storage efficiency and data protection features allow for a higher level of protection without compromise on risk or cost. Read now! MIT researchers tout network intrusion recovery system MIT researchers say RETRO will make recovery from system hacks easierMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory researchers will next week detail a system they say will make it easier for companies to recover from nasty security intrusions. Read More IE users most at risk from DLL hijacking attacks Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are more vulnerable to rogue DLL attacks than people who use rival browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox or Google's Chrome, a security researcher said today. Read More How to secure a new PC The excitement of discovering the capabilities of a new PC can lead you to forget the importance of security. Our new PC safety guide offers step-by-step instructions for protecting your machine. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Read More! ESG Whitepaper talking about Windows Data Consolidation in Mid-Sized Virtual Server Environments. This paper focuses on the challenges of virtualizing Windows environments and the need to consider network storage as a part of the overall solution. NetApp and VMware's joint solution is also examined in detail. Read now! Worlds collide: Apple iPhone app manages mainframe IPhone, iPad apps manage IBM mainframe systemsTalk about two systems that are worlds apart. Network management vendor William Data Systems says it has created an Apple iPhone app that lets users manage IBM's z/OS mainframe environment. What's up with encryption? Read More The shape of threats to come Mark Gibbs ponders the uber malware called Stuxnet. Read More ZeuS botnet has a new use: Stealing bank access codes via SMS The latest criminal activity linked to the ZeuS botnet is a software package tailored to BlackBerry and Symbian mobile phones and that picks off SMS messages, apparently to break the two-factor authentication that mobile bank customers use to access their accounts, researchers says. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Protecting Sensitive Data in Non-Production Environments The ideal data privacy solution must provide the necessary data masking techniques to satisfy the simplest and most complex policy requirements. These techniques must produce results that accurately mask context-sensitive data and include a way to propagate masked data elements consistently across applications and operating environments. Read now Microsoft Strengthens Security for Hotmail Microsoft is tackling the growing issue of Hotmail account hijacking. Microsoft has introduced new security controls designed to help users better protect Hotmail passwords and recover compromised accounts more easily. Read More Android software piracy rampant despite Google's efforts to curb Pirating Android apps is a long-standing problem. But it seems to be getting worse, even as Google begins to respond much more aggressively. The dilemma: protecting developers' investments, and revenue stream, while keeping an open platform. Read More Why CIOs are Resetting Information Security Priorities Business partners with shoddy information security. Cloud computing vendors with dubious risk controls. What's a CIO to do? Our annual Global Information Security Survey tracks the trends. Read More Crypto Wars: EFF Urges Us To Stand Up and Defend Privacy Privacy watchdogs are growling as the Feds plan government-mandated back doors in encryption software and all communications systems. The "war on privacy" reached a new level as the EFF proclaimed it's time for all of us who care about privacy to stand up and defend it. The disturbing news today is that the government intends to expand its ability to surveill us by putting government-mandated back doors in all communications systems and in all encryption software. Read More
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