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	US shutters 82 domain names citing counterfeit goods sales, copyright problems US government shuts down websites selling everything from sports equipment to music and softwareThe US has dropped a hammer on 82 domain names saying those of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works. Can US get tough on intellectual property crime? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign® SSL Certificates now come with new features! Learn more! In this Issue Data breaches: 4 fundamental ways to shore up your defenses Free Speech, Privacy & Cyberstalkers - Help For Those With Personal Cyberstalking Terrorists Cisco Releases AnyConnect SSLVPN client for iPad Is Open Source Less Secure? Why Don't SMBs Have More Choices? Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior? New ESG Research Report Points To Security Vulnerabilities In the US Critical Infrastructure 8 Great Kinect Hacks Online shopping scams and why people fall for them Consumers demand compulsory public data loss disclosures WEBCAST: Netop Best Practices for Remote Support Join this live Webcast December 7th at 1 PM ET to hear practical advice on deploying remote support without putting your organization at risk. You'll learn how companies from regulated industries are implementing remote support and since this event is live, you'll have a chance to ask the experts your specific questions. Join us for this Live Event Data breaches: 4 fundamental ways to shore up your defenses If you're like most IT professionals, you constantly feel as if you should be paying more attention to security. But it's tough to find the time, budget and staff to do the best job possible. Read More Free Speech, Privacy & Cyberstalkers - Help For Those With Personal Cyberstalking Terrorists Cyberstalkers may hide behind free speech, anonymous comments and their right to privacy, but there are steps to take if you are being cyberstalked or suffering from another form of electronic aggression.In the United States, we highly value free speech. It is a wonderful right, but there are truly twisted people who hide behind freedom of speech and the right to privacy by being anonymous online. Just because we can say most anything anonymously, doesn't mean we should. People joke online about cyberstalking others, but the reality is that the U.S. Read More Cisco Releases AnyConnect SSLVPN client for iPad Securely connect iPads to the corporate networkThe Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility SSLVPN iPad client will soon release to the Apple App store. Before the iPad specific version releases though you can use the iPhone version of AnyConnect on any 4.2+ version iPad. The AnyConnect client allows your iPad users to VPN back to a Cisco ASA headend device located at your office or corporation. The client supports both an auto launch on-demand mode... Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Next Generation Data Protection These next generation tools, such as disk based backups, deduplication, virtualization, archiving, and continuous data protection, are essentially revolutionizing the world of data protection. download this whitepaper to find the newest approach to unified data protection. Read now! Is Open Source Less Secure? Why Don't SMBs Have More Choices? HP Security Evangelist Rafal Los discusses open sourceBefore the Thanksgiving holiday I wrote a post about the security of open source apps in the health care field. It was itself in response to a post written by Rafal Los, a security researcher and evangelist with HP. Read More Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior? National Science Foundation program looks to increase cyber security specialistsThe National Science Foundation is again trying to increase the amount of well-educated people willing to work for the government to secure online resources. Read More New ESG Research Report Points To Security Vulnerabilities In the US Critical Infrastructure Cyber supply chain security weaknesses aboundIn 1998, then President Bill Clinton recognized that the United States was especially vulnerable to a cyber attack to its critical infrastructure. Clinton addressed Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) by issuing Presidential Directive 63 (PDD-63). Soon after PDD-63, Deputy Defense Secretary John Harme cautioned the US Congress about the importance of CIP by warning of a potential "cyber Pearl... Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Combating Security and Compliance Challenges Don't wait for a security breach or compliance issue to damage your company. Ongoing monitoring can proactively identify and reduce threats. Learn how you can successfully stop security issues before they become serious problems. Read More 8 Great Kinect Hacks Kinect hacking is taking off at blinding speed. Microsoft's Kinect motion controller for XBox 360 is less than a month old, and it's been barely two weeks since Adafruit announced a winner in their Open Kinect competition. Since the, Microsoft has tacitly endorsed opening up the Kinect as a platform, and it seems like there's a new Kinect hack every couple of hours. It can be tough to keep up with a phenomenon that's gone from nothing to a full blown scene in less than a month, so as a service to you we're rounding up GeekTech's favorite Kinect hacks. Read More Online shopping scams and why people fall for them Checking email, logging onto Facebook and IMing with friends are all common activities people engage in during break time at the office. But today, social networking may take a backseat to online shopping for holiday gifts. Known as Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving is the day online retailers expect to see an uptick in activity as the population heads back to work, giving them access to work computers and, as a result, an opportunity to start holiday shopping. Read More Consumers demand compulsory public data loss disclosures Eighty percent of UK consumers support compulsory public data loss disclosures by organisations, reasearch has shown, in response to continuing data breaches. Read More
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