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	Microsoft to patch 22 bugs, 3 zero-days next week Microsoft today said it will issue 12 security updates next week to patch 22 vulnerabilities in IE, Windows, its Internet server and Visio, the company's data diagramming tool. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: St. Bernard, now doing business as EdgeWave Spend Less on Email Security, Earn $15 GC Next-gen Email Security finds emerging email threats first, with our proprietary Zero Minute Defense TM- no one else has it. Protect your business-critical email and your network. We'll try to match the cost of your current solution, or any competitive offer you have. You'll earn cash just for checking us out. Click here for the EdgeWave Bid Desk. In this Issue U.S. sacks counterfeiters in massive sting Can 'encrypted blobs' help with secure cloud computing? Pwn2Own organizer predicts Chrome will survive first day Reader X spoils new PDF attack Google fixes 9 bugs in Chrome, including sandbox-escape flaw Cisco announces three new security certifications Microsoft fixes cookie security bug in Windows Azure SpiderLabs' top strategic security initiatives for every organization in 2011 DARPA offers up $10,000 challenge for new military fighting vehicle Watching for space junk: Space fence takes shape What a girl wants: 25 techie gifts for your Valentine Modems: 60 Years of Hooking Up 15 more useful Cisco sites WEBCAST: Palo Alto Networks Choosing Enterprise Firewall for 2011 & Beyond Firewalls are evolving. Application visibility and control has made its way to the forefront of the requirements list for enterprise firewalls. We are dedicating this episode of 60 Minutes with Nir Zuk to the more practical considerations around choosing an enterprise firewall. Learn more! U.S. sacks counterfeiters in massive sting With the National Football League's Super Bowl extravaganza as a background, the government announced what it called a record breaking $3.6 million sting aimed at counterfeit game-related sportswear sellers. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worked with multiple NFL teams and various law enforcement agencies throughout the nation to identify stores and vendors selling counterfeit trademarked items, ICE stated. Read More Can 'encrypted blobs' help with secure cloud computing? Can cloud-based computing be made more secure in the future using what crypto geeks call "fully homomorphic encryption" to send data as "encrypted blobs" that can be understood and subject to processing without having to actually de-crypt them first to see the plaintext? Read More Pwn2Own organizer predicts Chrome will survive first day Google's Chrome will likely survive the first day at next month's Pwn2Own hacking challenge, but may fall the next when the rules change, the contest organizer predicted. Read More Reader X spoils new PDF attack Adobe's Reader X, last year's upgrade that features a "sandbox" designed to protect users from PDF exploits, stymied a recent attack campaign, researchers said. Read More WHITE PAPER: PacketMotion PacketMotion and Sox IT Controls PacketMotion's PacketSentry solution for User Activity Management and how it allows companies to comply with SOX quickly, efficiently, and without risking application availability. Read now! Google fixes 9 bugs in Chrome, including sandbox-escape flaw Google on Thursday patched nine bugs in Chrome and upgraded the most stable edition of the browser to version 9. Read More Cisco announces three new security certifications It's Cisco Live this week - in London, at least. As usual, Cisco announced new certifications, this time all of them in security. Read More Microsoft fixes cookie security bug in Windows Azure Microsoft fixes a security bug in Windows Azure, and offers a new "extra small" cloud computing instance. Read More SpiderLabs' top strategic security initiatives for every organization in 2011 SpiderLabs, the advanced security team within the consulting firm Trustwave, has just released its Global Security Report of 2011.  The report is based on more than 220 incident response investigations and 2,000 manual penetration tests conducted by in the past year.  Nicholas Percoco of SpiderLabs shares his top "eleven for '11" security initiatives that every organization should undertake in order to reduce the risk of a costly security breach. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Meeting the True intent of File Integrity Monitoring Today, organizations simply use file integrity monitoring (FIM) to meet one of the many regulations, like PCI, that require it. But for most, the term "FIM" has become synonymous with "noise" due to the volume of change data it indiscriminately produces. Learn what true FIM is, and why it's still critical for security and compliance. Read now! DARPA offers up $10,000 challenge for new military fighting vehicle Can you design a tank? Well you could win $10,000Ok so it may not be a tank, but the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today issued a $10,000 to design a next-generation military fighting vehicle. Read More Watching for space junk: Space fence takes shape US Air Force awards $214M contracts to begin Space Fence developmentAs expected the Air Force recently handed out two $107 million checks to begin development of the advanced radar system known as the Space Fence it will deploy to protect detect objects in low and medium earth orbit that might strike Earth Read More What a girl wants: 25 techie gifts for your Valentine There's still plenty of time to shop for your Valentine, and you don't even have to leave your desk to buy one of these 25 tech-inspired gifts. Read More Modems: 60 Years of Hooking Up A visual guide to the history of the modem, from the 1950s to today. Read More 15 more useful Cisco sites Everything you want to know about Cisco routers, security, consumer electronics and more Read More
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