From Anonymous to Hackerazzi: The year in security mischief-making

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	From Anonymous to Hackerazzi: The year in security mischief-making It wasn't a good security year from RSA break-in to hacks on Sony, Google and Facebook. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Security Information and Event Management eGuide Security threats these days are increasingly focused on critical components of enterprise infrastructures – the servers, databases, and directories that store and manage crucial corporate information. Learn More! In this Issue 2011's biggest security snafus The water pump alarm National Do Not Call Registry under attack from scammers, unrelenting telemarketers The IBM Security Systems Division Medical data breaches soar, according to study Are the Carriers Spying On You? Mobile privacy debate reignites over hidden smartphone app Real life HAL 9000 meets Skynet: AI controlled video surveillance society WEBCAST: Oracle High Availability for SMBs Just Got Easy Tuesday, December 13, 9am PT / 12 noon ET Join this live Webcast to hear how Oracle has removed all the barriers to high availability with an appliance that provides a fully-configured, fully-patched system that can have you up and running in less than 2 hours. Learn More 2011's biggest security snafus Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency Operations Center because no one knew the password. Read More The water pump alarm If nothing else, the now disputed "hacking" of an Illinois water utility has brought the spotlight back to shine on the vulnerability of our national infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: i365 Trusted Data Assurance in the Cloud Cloud-based services are here to stay. Cloud services are even more attractive for companies who are being hit with the high cost of meeting compliance requirements - especially for small and mid-size companies that have shrinking or no information security budget. Read now! National Do Not Call Registry under attack from scammers, unrelenting telemarketers It seems the nation's Do Not Call system is under attack. First The Federal Trade Commission today issued a warning about scammers looking to gather personal information by pretending to represent the National Do Not Call Registry. The callers offer to provide an opportunity to sign up for the Registry but the FTC nor the Registry makes no such calls. Read More The IBM Security Systems Division I spent the last few days at IBM's "Software Analyst Connect 2011" event. Before attending this event, I was pretty clear on why IBM bought Q1 Labs and why it formed a new security division. After attending this event, I have some further thoughts about this move: Read More WEBCAST: ForeScout Technologies CISO in the Know - Mitigating Modern Attacks This webcast examines sophisticated and targeted threats, security gaps, techniques and new technologies with regards to understanding and defending against zero-day threats, propagating worms, low-and-slow attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). Learn more. Medical data breaches soar, according to study Data breaches in healthcare organizations are rising more than 30 percent year over year, with most organizations stating they've been breached in the past year. Read More Are the Carriers Spying On You? I probably shouldn't be, but I was stunned to read this article from Atlantic Wire, mostly discussing some embedded (to the point of being invisible) software in some smartphones that provides analytical data to the carriers. Read More Mobile privacy debate reignites over hidden smartphone app New details on a hidden smartphone software application that collects data on user activities has sparked renewed debate over smartphone privacy. Read More Real life HAL 9000 meets Skynet: AI controlled video surveillance society Houston-based BRS Labs provides AISight software that offers the "first autonomous 24/7 behavioral analytics solution that analyzes video content, and alerts in real time on abnormal and suspicious activity." To put it another way, computer-controlled video surveillance cameras are the eyes watching us and, via artificial intelligence, the Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES 25 free open source projects IT pros will love Facebook under privacy watch for 20 years Everything I need to know about Linux I learned from my pets Mobile privacy debate reignites over hidden smartphone app Hackers launch millions of Java exploits, says Microsoft Hackers target IPv6 Cisco data center forecast very cloudy Steve Jobs' worth, iPhone 5's arrival among 2011's top online question topics Google Translate glitch opens security hole Cool Yule favorites: 20 techie gifts we like
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