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	RSA risk mitigation Unless you've been in a coma the past week you're aware that some sort of security breach occurred at RSA and that "... information specifically related to RSA's SecurID two-factor authentication products" was "extracted from RSA's systems." Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Analytics This comprehensive study walks through detailed return-on-investment (ROI) calculations for compliance and streamlined access, and guides you in computing cost savings with identity & access governance solution. Use the model suggested in this report to design your implementation to quicken results and calculate cost savings. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft to FTC: Don't tell us how long to retain users' private data Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography Google patches 6 serious Chrome bugs UPDATE: Russian security team to upgrade SCADA exploit tool NASA's "images" of life on Mars circa 1975 ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison Mozilla regrets keeping quiet on SSL certificate theft Anonymous draws Congressional attention; battles disgruntled members Big data to drive a surveillance society WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Microsoft to FTC: Don't tell us how long to retain users' private data Microsoft believes it's willingness to delete IP addresses tracked by Bing after six months (and cookies after a year and half) makes it an example of how to do privacy right. It is urging the Federal Trade Commission to consider the desires of Internet marketers before settling on new guidelines that cover data retention and other online privacy restrictions. Read More Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? According to the NYTimes and Slashdot, there are reports of China stepping up electronic communications censorship beyond e-mail and the Internet in the form of "policing cellphone calls" such as if "antigovernment sentiment" words are spoken. Two callers, one speaking English and the other Chinese, have reported being cut off mid-sentence after saying "protest." Read More FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography Breaking written codes is seemingly a black art whose history dates back as long as people could write and wanted to keep secrets.  In the age of supercomputers and all manner of advanced technologies it's hard to imagine much cryptography expertise Read More WEBCAST: Oracle How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today! Google patches 6 serious Chrome bugs The latest security update to Google Chrome includes two blacklisted SSL certificates that may be related to the recent theft of digital certificates from a Comodo reseller. Read More UPDATE: Russian security team to upgrade SCADA exploit tool A Russian security company plans to release an upgraded exploit pack for industrial control software that incorporates a raft of new vulnerabilities released by an Italian security researcher. Read More NASA's "images" of life on Mars circa 1975 NASA has posted an interesting group of images its says were rendered by an unnamed artist from its Jet Propulsion Lab that show what the space agency, or at least the artist, though Mars might look like up close. Read More WEBCAST: Dell - Intel Get Mobile Right…Or Else! This Webcast will probe the business-critical challenges swirling around the fast-evolving mobile infrastructure challenges most companies face. Register Now ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison A Delaware man is sentenced to more than 16 years in prison on ID theft-related charges. Read More Mozilla regrets keeping quiet on SSL certificate theft Mozilla admits keeping silent about theft of digital certificates was a mistake on its part. Read More Anonymous draws Congressional attention; battles disgruntled members When Anonymous attacked HBGary Federal back in January, it set off a chain of events that has spawned widespread fascination, fear, anger and some paranoia among the security industry, government, law firms, Congress and even Anonymous itself. Read More Big data to drive a surveillance society Vendors and users of big data analytics gathered in New York this week to discuss the latest developments in a technology that they say will offer Web users and their customers a far more personalized experience while alleviating the need to throw away useful data. Read More
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