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	Facebook halts controversial sharing feature for now Facebook said Monday it will temporarily disable a controversial feature that allows application developers and third-party web sites to access the mobile phone numbers and addresses of certain users. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Stop Fraudulent Transactions Learn how creative, iterative analysis detects and halts fraud in minutes, rather than hours or days by leveraging: • Massively Parallel Processing • Columnar database for faster responses • Schema-neutral, no tuning required • Built-in compression and encryption Read now! In this Issue Microsoft adds to security tools for developers Policy disputes, uncertainties pose safety risks for NASA Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad As PC Virus Turns 25, New Worry Emerges: Attack Toolkits Criminal charges filed for AT&T iPad attackers Study: Cloud breaches show need for stronger authentication Secunia: Third-party apps remains security weak point MPack, NeoSploit and Zeus top most notorious Web attack toolkit list Will electronic toll systems become terrorist targets? WHITE PAPER: IBM Prepare IT for Growth The need has never been so great to balance evolving IT Services with reduced IT budgets. Learn to position your organization for growth in this uncertain business climate. Read Now Microsoft adds to security tools for developers Attack Surface Analyzer security development lifecycle verification tool offered along with consulting services for secure development Read More Policy disputes, uncertainties pose safety risks for NASA NASA panel warns of a bumpy future for NASA's safety recordPerhaps for a moment - in those fleeting seconds after President Obama signed the space agency's 2011 budget -- NASA's immediate future seemed set. Read More Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated. 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 As PC Virus Turns 25, New Worry Emerges: Attack Toolkits 25 years ago, two brothers from Pakistan released the Brain Virus. Today, hackers can buy ready-made toolkits to launch malware attacks - and this trend should concern you. Read More Criminal charges filed for AT&T iPad attackers The U.S. District Court of New Jersey files criminal charges against alleged attackers of AT&T-accessible iPads Read More Study: Cloud breaches show need for stronger authentication The number of security breaches is rising as organizations increase their reliance on cloud-based services, collaboration tools and enabling users to access networks, Forrester says in a new report. Weak usernames and passwords are making matters worse. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Securing Web Presence with DNSSEC This article discusses DNSSEC , a series of DNS protocol extensions which ensure the integrity of data returned by domain name lookups by incorporating a chain of trust into the DNS hierarchy. Read now! Secunia: Third-party apps remains security weak point Microsoft is still burdened with a bad reputation among users for security, although figures show its products are more secure than most on a person's computer, according to new data from the Danish security vendor Secunia. Read More MPack, NeoSploit and Zeus top most notorious Web attack toolkit list About two-thirds of malicious Web activity can be traced back to botnets and exploit code built using popular attack toolkits like MPack and Zeus sold in the underground economy, according to a new Symantec report. Read More Will electronic toll systems become terrorist targets? Weaknesses in 802.11p vehicular wireless networks could make them targets for terrorists seeking to wreak havoc on the nation's highways, according to a briefing scheduled this week at the Black Hat DC conference. Read More
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