The Worst Data Breach Incidents of 2012 – So Far

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	The Worst Data Breach Incidents of 2012 – So Far Out of 189 breaches recorded through mid-June, here are the top 15 according to Identity Theft Resource Center. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Top 5 Reasons to Choose SolarWinds® LEM Over Splunk®. SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM), with node-based licensing that lets you pay only for what you monitor, is an affordable alternative to volume-based Splunk pricing. With real-time, in-memory event log correlation, active response technology and advanced IT search, you get all the features of a powerful SIEM solution, at an affordable price! Interested in learning more about powerful SIEM software for log collection, analysis and event management from SolarWinds? Click here to learn more and why to choose SolarWinds LEM over Splunk! In this Issue Security: An Inconvienient Truth Check Point product line offers anti-DDoS protection Should best cybercrime defense include some offense? 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View Now Security: An Inconvienient Truth One of the things I dislike about being a security person is the "we are the people who say no or make it harder than it has to be". For many people the security team are the people who just seem to live to make it harder. We don't let them use wireless, surf web sites they want to go to, engage in social media activities, install applications, change their passwords, etc. etc. I get it. No one... Read More Check Point product line offers anti-DDoS protection Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today announced its first line of products to fight distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). Read More Should best cybercrime defense include some offense? A growing number of U.S. companies have concluded that in their battle against hackers, the best defense has to include some offense. Read More Virtual analysis misses a third of malware Roughly a third of malware sent to a virtualized environment for analysis is able to elude detection, a security expert says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The iEverything Enterprise Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Learn more. LinkedIn hit with lawsuit over massive data breach LinkedIn has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to meet "industry standard" security practices in connection with a massive data breach earlier this month, according to court documents. Read More NSA claims it would violate Americans' privacy to say how many of us it spied on Would you believe the Inspector General from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it would violate the privacy of Americans for the IG office to tell us how many people in the United States had their privacy violated via the NSA warrantless wiretap powers which were granted under the FISA Amendment Act of 2008? Read More Researchers set new cryptanalysis world record for pairing-based cryptography Researchers from Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University have set a new cryptanalysis world record by cracking a 278-digit-long (923-bit) key used in a pairing-based cryptography system, Japanese IT services provider Fujitsu said Monday. Read More Data breach? Virtual bounty hunters will hunt it down Security expert Dan Clements is building a virtual "lost and found" box for data, a concept he hopes companies suffering from data breaches will embrace to find out just how bad the damage is. Read More WHITE PAPER: Motorola WiNG 5 Wireless LAN: Delivering Better Quality of Experience Can your wireless network infrastructure handle the growing numbers of mobile devices taking significant bandwidth bites out of your network? The good news is that with smart, cost-effective wireless infrastructure investments, not only can you scale quickly to secure the growing number of devices you serve, but also optimize their performance. Learn More. New Android malware disguised as security app Google's Android mobile platform is the target of a new variant of a widely used malware capable of stealing personal information. Read More What You Really Need to Know About Cloud Security Despite all of the hand wringing over cloud security, major cloud security breaches haven't been grabbing headlines. The past year has seen major breaches, such as the ones that hit Sony and Epsilon, but we haven't heard much of an emphasis about the cloud being a weakness. Read More The Future of Drone Surveillance: Swarms of Cyborg Insect Drones Forget the roachbots and the swarm of MIT humanoid robots dancing in sync, as well as "disposable" quarter-sized kilobots which are "cheap enough to swarm in th Read More Mobile security startup Bluebox gets $9.5 million in funding Mobile security startup Bluebox eases out of stealth mode today with an announcement of $9.5 million in Series A funding, but doesn't plan a product announcement until later this year. Read More
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