CIO gets 6 years for embezzlement scheme; OpenBSD back door claim now in doubt

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	CIO gets six years for embezzlement scheme The former chief information officer at a large U.S. automobile processing company has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from the company by faking expense reports and reselling company equipment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Improving Availability in a Digital Hospital Downtime is not an option for healthcare IT systems. To ensure patient data is always available at the point of care, the hospital's network closet IT infrastructure must be properly designed. Learn the essential points for evaluating the benefits and costs associated with powering and cooling a hospital's network closets. Read Now In this Issue OpenBSD back door claim now in doubt 7 reasons security pros fail Tech news quiz 2010 11 techie and yummy gingerbread creations 2010's most popular iPad apps Norton Utilities adds defragmenter tool, other features Five cloud security trends experts see for 2011 WikiLeaks and Cyber Security Best and worst celebrity technology moments of 2010 LOIC tool enables 'easy' WikiLeaks-driven DDoS attacks McDonald's Customer Data Compromised through Contractor Zeus botnet targets holiday shoppers Is Jailbreaking a Device Becoming Acceptable? Core expands into network vulnerability testing The WikiLeaks drama: A timeline US Dept. of Commerce: New online privacy rules needed Will feds mandate Internet routing security? More censorship, data breaches and devices: Security predictions for 2011 Policy, education key to reining in rogue cloud Internet hit by wave of fake PC 'defrag' tools WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup Checklist Small businesses are quickly adopting the cloud as an alternative way to back up their critical data. If you haven't yet made the move to the cloud, attend this webcast to explore what to look for in an online backup solution to save you time, money and free up your precious IT resources. Learn more! OpenBSD back door claim now in doubt The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt. Read More 7 reasons security pros fail Read More Tech news quiz 2010 Naked spies, CEO scandals and billion-dollar deals made 2010 a year to remember Read More 11 techie and yummy gingerbread creations Mostly edible iPhones, motherboards, laptops and of course, Google Android "Gingerbread" treats. Read More 2010's most popular iPad apps What people bought during the iPad's inaugural year Read More Norton Utilities adds defragmenter tool, other features Symantec's Norton unit today announced an updated version of its Norton Utilities software, adding a way to defragment and organize files and data that's become scattered across a hard drive, enabling quicker startup, file access and more free disk space. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Cloud –Inspired Data Center Transformation In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO and Computerworld present the latest thinking and explore the latest trends on how data centers are evolving toward the cloud ideal. Read now! Five cloud security trends experts see for 2011 What do IT security practitioners expect to be major cloud security issues in 2011? Here are five things to watch for. Read More WikiLeaks and Cyber Security How could this have happened and what does it say about cyber security vulnerabilities?There's been a lot written about WikiLeaks over the past few weeks -- some of it fair and some a bit off base. No question that there was a security breach related to classified documents ending up on WikiLeaks but it is important to dig a bit further to define what may have gone wrong. Here are the elements of security involved and where a breakdown may have occurred: Read More Best and worst celebrity technology moments of 2010 Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga and Stephen Colbert collide with Twitter, iPads and hackers. Read More LOIC tool enables 'easy' WikiLeaks-driven DDoS attacks As the tools employed within the pro-Wikileaks distributed denial-of-service attacks highlight, attack software is getting insanely simple to deploy and use. Read More McDonald's Customer Data Compromised through Contractor McDonald's is warning customers to be on guard against identity theft, phishing attacks, or other scams thanks to a data breach. What makes the data compromise more concerning is that it is indicative of a growing hacker strategy to go for the low-hanging fruit rather than staging a direct attack. Read More Zeus botnet targets holiday shoppers Man-in-the-middle attack uses social engineering to get Macy's, Nordstrom account holders to reveal sensitive information Read More WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? You've heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. However, your data center only has tens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. Should you consider virtualization as well? View this webcast to learn more. Register now! Is Jailbreaking a Device Becoming Acceptable? A little mentioned fact about the new Google CR-48 notebook is that it's designed to be jailbroken. This was announced by Sundar Pichai, during Google Chrome's recent preview presentation. There's a switch on the inside of the battery compartment that slips the unit into developer mode. Read More Core expands into network vulnerability testing The latest version of Core Impact can now scan network devices for security vulnerabilities Read More The WikiLeaks drama: A timeline Feeling lost somewhere in the middle of the WikiLeaks drama? Here's a timeline to help you sort things out. Read More US Dept. of Commerce: New online privacy rules needed The U.S. Department of Commerce recommends a new privacy bill of rights and an enforceable privacy code of conduct for online firms. Read More Will feds mandate Internet routing security? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has spent $3 million over the past few years on research aimed at bolstering the security of the Internet's routing system. Read More More censorship, data breaches and devices: Security predictions for 2011 This past year has been a doozy in the security world. We kicked off the year by discovering operation Aurora, saw the first national-industrial sabotage attack with Stuxnet and are closing the year with Wikileaks about to become a constitutional crisis between the First amendment and a 1917 espionage law. Reality has well and truly become weirder than fiction. Read More Policy, education key to reining in rogue cloud It used to be that rogue access points and USB drives kept IT administrators up at night, worrying about employees exporting sensitive corporate data. Now, with good reason, they're worrying about employees using cloud services in ways that could compromise corporate data. Read More Internet hit by wave of fake PC 'defrag' tools A spate of scareware apps that trick users into buying useless hard disk repair tools appears to be part of a concerted campaign to push fake 'defrag' software, a security company has said. Read More
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