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	Is it legal to use Firesheep at Starbucks? People using the Firesheep add-on may be breaking federal wiretapping laws, legal experts said Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Framework for Securing Virtualized Data Centers Does the broad adoption of virtualization make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? While responses to this question are still highly varied, one thing is certain: most companies still have no clear and definite security policy for their virtual environments. Understand the real need for virtualized security solutions. Read Now In this Issue Adobe Reader: Will New Version Block Hackers or Tempt Them Air Force bounces Windows XP, goes all-in for Windows 7 Antivirus scanning becoming inadequate, says Webroot CEO The CIA And The Encrypted Enterprise Utilities' IT systems unready for smart grid intelligence Facebook Nails Developers Leaking User Data Koobface Mac security threat: Intego reveals more details Symantec report notes increase in cyber attacks WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Narrow the Breach-to-Detection Gap for Better Security What's more important, security or compliance? Most IT shops are focused on compliance but breaches are still happening. A recent study by Verizon Business concludes that evidence of those breaches tends to be right there in log files. Read More Now. Adobe Reader: Will New Version Block Hackers or Tempt Them Here's a distinction no software company craves: For two quarters running, Adobe's popular Acrobat and Reader software have been the favorite target of hackers around the globe. According to Symantec's quarterly threat assessment, attacks related to PDF usage accounted for 36 percent of malicious activity in the most recent quarter and 57 percent in the preceding three months. Read More Air Force bounces Windows XP, goes all-in for Windows 7 The US Air Force said it has begun a service-wide upgrade of operating systems to Windows 7, the plan to complete the upgrade across the service by December 2011. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Gartner: Load Balancers Are Dead Get Gartner's take on: * Which vendors are leading the ADC market * Key recommendations on what you should do today * How to find a feature-rich ADC View the Gartner report, compliments of F5 Networks! Read now! Antivirus scanning becoming inadequate, says Webroot CEO US antivirus vendor Webroot has bought UK-based Prevx in an acquisition that looks like the latest symptom of the growing dissatisfaction among security companies with the current signature-based scanning model for detecting malware. Read More The CIA And The Encrypted Enterprise Pervasive encryption demand network key management services, a solid architecture, and lots of thinkingThe international horse show wasn't the only event in Washington DC this week, I participated in the Virtualization, Cloud, and Green Computing event in our nation's capital this week. One of the guest speakers was Ira "Gus" Hunt, CTO at the CIA. If you haven't seen Gus speak, you are missing something. He is very strong on the technical side and extremely energetic and entertaining. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Why Organizations Need LTO-5 Today For years, tape storage systems have played a key role in efforts to store data for backup and retrieval, archiving, and contingency planning purposes. More recently, tape has been called on to help preserve and safeguard data to meet data retention laws and regulations. Read More Utilities' IT systems unready for smart grid intelligence Electricity companies' IT systems are not yet ready to support smart grid intelligence, a survey has found. Read More Facebook Nails Developers Leaking User Data Remember all the hullaballoo in October over The Wall Street Journal's report that third-party Facebook developers were leaking user information to Internet tracking firms? Turns out those privacy concerns may have been justified. Facebook recently acknowledged that some developers were deliberately selling user IDs (UIDs) to data brokerage firms. UIDs are uniquely identifying numbers that can be used to find your Facebook profile and any profile information you have made publicly available. Read More Koobface Mac security threat: Intego reveals more details Intego has revealed more details of the potential security threat from the Koobface Trojan horse. Read More Symantec report notes increase in cyber attacks There was no let up in so-called targeted attacks by cyber criminals this month across all sectors and geographies, according to the October 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report of Symantec. While some types of attacks saw marginal decreases, the report noted that the threats remain. Read More
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