See you anon: Reflections on online anonymity

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	See you anon: Reflections on online anonymity I've never been much of a fan of anonymity. Long-established research in social psychology pointed out that anonymity increases anti-social behavior. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase® IQ Accelerates Advanced Analytics The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now In this Issue EDITOR'S NOTE US senator wants FTC to put heat on "brazen" OnStar for privacy changes MySQL.Com Website Hacked Security roundup: Privacy ground war; malware taunts; Massachusetts data loss stink; is SIEM dead? Top 10 banned books of 2010 Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption Is Quantum Computing real? NSA Label-based System Could Secure Big Data 5 more dirty tricks: Social engineers' latest pick-up lines Defense against dark arts: Multidisciplinary security quiz Gang of Zeus-driven bank thieves put out of business WEBCAST: IBM Trends in Business Analytics In his presentation "Trends in Business Analytics", Colin White (Founder, BI Research) will explore the impact that trends such as analytic RDBMSes, Hadoop and MapReduce, the NoSQL movement, smarter and real-time analytics, and self-service business intelligence will have on businesses. Read Now EDITOR'S NOTE Starting next week, Network World will transition this newsletter to our daily Security Alert. If you would like to change your subscription options, please visit our subscription management center online: http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/preferences.html Thank you for reading Network World newsletters. Read More US senator wants FTC to put heat on "brazen" OnStar for privacy changes US Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission to get the agency to investigate recent changes made to navigation and emergency services company OnStar made to its privacy practices. Read More MySQL.Com Website Hacked Hackers have hacked the MySQL.com website and injected code that will unknowingly infect visitors with malware according the security firm Armorize. If you are using an older browser version or not kept up with Flash and other upgrades, you could be infected while visiting the site without any pop ups or anything warning you of code being installed on your machine. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Research—Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications Gartner report "How to Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications" is a study of three popular website acceleration techniques: network optimization, front-end optimization and edge caching. Read now Security roundup: Privacy ground war; malware taunts; Massachusetts data loss stink; is SIEM dead? Personal privacy or the growing lack thereof was one of the hot security buttons this week. Read More Top 10 banned books of 2010 The American Library Association this week observing its 13th annual Banned Book Week where it takes a look at censorship and all manner of literary issues. The ALA says the Banned Books list was started in 1982 as a "response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries." Read More Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption One of Canada's largest political parties is using cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store information about voters and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law prompted the Canadian party to use a strong encryption approach. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software New NetVault Backup Licensing Model Read a report from an industry-leading analyst to see why traditional backup and recovery licensing methods no longer make sense. You'll learn how you can dramatically cut costs with a different strategy that's more intuitive, reasonable, enduring, and flexible. Download the report today. Read Now! Is Quantum Computing real? Researchers have been working on quantum systems for more than a decade, in the hopes of developing super-tiny, super-powerful computers. And while there is still plenty of excitement surrounding quantum computing, significant roadblocks are causing some to question whether quantum computing will ever make it out of the lab. Read More NSA Label-based System Could Secure Big Data The National Security Agency has submitted Accumulo, its label-based, data-store software, to the Apache Software Foundation so that other parties can further develop the technology for use in secure systems. Read More 5 more dirty tricks: Social engineers' latest pick-up lines You may now be savvy enough to know that when a friend reaches out on Facebook and says they've been mugged in London and are in desperate need of cash, that it's a scam. But social engineers, the criminals that pull off these kinds of ploys by trying to trick you, are one step ahead. Read More Defense against dark arts: Multidisciplinary security quiz 1. Barbican Read More Gang of Zeus-driven bank thieves put out of business A mid-level organizer of an international online bank-theft ring that relied on the Zeus Trojan faces up to 45 years in prison when he is sentenced Jan. 13 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possession of false IDs. Read More
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