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	Microsoft Spying on Users For Free Are the feds one of Microsoft's best customers? Microsoft does not charge the government even a penny for surveillance of its users. Google charges $25 per user and Yahoo charges $29 per user. In November 1985, Windows 1.0 was born. Now that Microsoft Windows is 25 years old, I'm wondering if the feds are one of Microsoft's biggest and best customers? Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Ultimate endpoint management tools Cisco's 3QCY10 Global Threat Report Results The battle for space shots heats up on the ground China Internet 'hijack' hugely exaggerated, says researcher Products and privacy: Social media are changing the litigation game 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing FireCore Brings Last.FM, Web Browsing Hack to Apple TV WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Scrambling at Audit Time? Does your organization treat compliance as a set of check boxes designed to meet the auditors' requirements? If so, you are wasting a lot of time, money and precious IT resources. This white paper is a roadmap for making compliance a painless, efficient, and routine part of your IT processes. Read now! Ultimate endpoint management tools Desktop virtualization, Web apps, software as a service, and an increasingly mobile user base have created new challenges when it comes to endpoint management. Nonetheless, there are still some constants – endpoints need to be deployed, configured, patched, secured and supported. Read More Cisco's 3QCY10 Global Threat Report Results Adobe Reader/Acrobat, Sun Java, and Adobe Flash were the three most common exploit targets during 1H2010Cisco recently released its third quarter 2010 Global Threat Report to the public. This report highlights the trends of Malware encounters, industry vertical risks breakdown, Stuxnet worm, Rustock Botnet, SQL inject attacks, Global Spam trends and the "Here you have" email worm. Here are the highlights from the report. Malware Encounter Rates: -Enterprise businesses experienced an average of 133... Read More WHITE PAPER: Watchguard 10 questions to ask before you buy an anti‐spam solution With so many anti-spam products on the market, how can you be sure you're getting the best solution for your business network? With these ten critical questions as your guide, you can cut through the marketing hype and zero in on the key features and benefits that should guide your decision. Read now! The battle for space shots heats up on the ground Space ports wrangle business and prep for commercial space operations It seems the scaffolding that will hold up the commercial space industry is being bolstered almost daily. Read More China Internet 'hijack' hugely exaggerated, says researcher The claimed 'hijack' of Internet traffic by China Telecom has been hugely exaggerated in scale and intent, a traffic analysis by Internet security company Arbor Networks has concluded. Read More WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. Securing the Social Web Organizations around the world are racing to take advantage of social networking and media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Along with these new resources, comes new risk as user-generated content circumvents traditional security technologies such as antivirus and URL filtering. View Now Products and privacy: Social media are changing the litigation game Karen L. Stevenson, senior counsel, in the complex litigation group at the law firm of Buchalter Nemer recently sent me an interesting contribution following up on the articles about social network sites published in this column. Today's column is entirely her work with minor edits and an addendum from Mich. Read More 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing There's a lot to watch in the nighttime sky -- everything from the International Space Station and meteor showers to planets and stars. There are tons of iPhone apps that can help everyone who has a little (or a lot) of astronomer blood in them watch the sky with more authority. Here we take a look at a few of the free apps that can help you out. Read More FireCore Brings Last.FM, Web Browsing Hack to Apple TV So far in the Apple TV 2 jailbreak saga, we've seen hacks for a weather app and even support fot Plex, although admittedly there were a few buggy setbacks. Now, software company FireCore has announced that it will be bringing both Last.FM and Web browser named Couch Surfer to the Apple TV via its own app, aTV Flash (black). Read More
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