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	Homeland Security Digital Library – Priceless resource The Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Security and Defense (CHSD) is a world-standard institution in information assurance (IA) and homeland security (HS) education. Established in 2003 as a response to the horrific events of 9/11, the CHSD is also the home of a valuable resource for all IA and HS professionals: the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL). Read More WEBCAST: Quest Software Data Protection for Data Growth Today's unprecedented growth in data - and the need to protect it - means you must find an effective, inexpensive to backup and potentially recover your company's data! In this Quest Software on-demand video, learn how to develop and manage a flexible backup and recovery strategy. Watch it today. View Now! In this Issue U.S. needs to be on-guard for a big cyber-attack If You Use It, Mobile Malware Will Come Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates' Measuring impact of Wi-Fi denial-of-service attacks US needs to kick network security intelligence up a notch Security pros come clean at Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats With help from Intel, McAfee links security to the chip US wants electronic cigarettes banned on aircraft Banksy had it right: The future holds a mere 15 minutes of anonymity for everyone SpyEye hacking kit adds Android infection to bag of tricks DHS seeks to share top-secret info with banking and finance cybersecurity pros PCI point-to-point encryption guidelines raise new questions WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Application Performance Management In this eGuide, Network World, with sister publication CIO, offer news on the latest trends, best practices, and straightforward advice on these solutions and the challenges of managing application performance. Learn More! U.S. needs to be on-guard for a big cyber-attack A destructive attack from cyberspace "is coming, in my opinion. It is a question of time. What we don't know is how far out it is," and whether it will target commercial infrastructure, government networks or mobile platforms Army Gen. Keith Alexander told attendees of the "Maneuvering in Cyberspace" symposium this week. Read More If You Use It, Mobile Malware Will Come No matter what mobile platform you choose, be it Android, iOS or BlackBerry, you run the risk of infection and data theft. Read More Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates' Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises software component to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organization. Read More Measuring impact of Wi-Fi denial-of-service attacks A research team at North Carolina State University has proposed a way of measuring the impact of wireless denial-of-service attacks on Wi-Fi networks. It's a step toward building focused counter-measures that can make such attacks costly to pull off. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Socializing your UC Strategy Beyond standard cost savings – minimizing a bit of travel or enabling you to consolidate some servers or voicemail systems – UC is really about improving productivity by stitching together various systems employees rely on. Learn more US needs to kick network security intelligence up a notch There is an urgent need for businesses and our government to develop high-level cyber-intelligence as a way to combat the unacceptable levels of online security threats because the current "patch and pray" system won't cut it in the future. Read More Security pros come clean at Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats Put about 100 chief information security officers, CIOs and CEOs into a room and what they are willing share about cybersecurity just might surprise you. More information about just what they shared will be revealed soon in a report stemming from a closed-door Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats held in Washington, D.C., in July, where business and government security professionals acknowledged to each other that their organizations had either been hacked through stealthy infiltration to steal valuable sensitive information and intellectual property, or that they wouldn't know it if it had been. Read More With help from Intel, McAfee links security to the chip Nearly seven months after Intel shelled out US$7.68 billion for antivirus vendor McAfee, the two companies are offering a glimpse of their future. Read More US wants electronic cigarettes banned on aircraft If you thought those electronic cigarettes which deliver nicotine in a vapor form might slide by on airlines, the US Department of Transportation has some bad news for you. It wants them banned. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now Banksy had it right: The future holds a mere 15 minutes of anonymity for everyone All humans have a superpower. Now don't scoff and roll your eyes as your superpower is more like where you excel or are naturally gifted. For some people, it's organizing an event, raising money, cheering people up, "the gift of gab," etc. While nowhere as effective as Harry Potter's invisibility cape, some people who are concerned about privacy have the "superpower" of invisibility. Other folks post... Read More SpyEye hacking kit adds Android infection to bag of tricks The SpyEye hacking toolkit has added an Android component that collects the text messages some banks use as an extra security precaution, a researcher said today. Read More DHS seeks to share top-secret info with banking and finance cybersecurity pros The Department of Homeland Security works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence. Read More PCI point-to-point encryption guidelines raise new questions The PCI Security Standards Council today is expected to issue guidelines on use of point-to-point encryption in protecting sensitive payment card data, but the narrow approach — which is focused on hardware — is raising questions. Read More
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