Irked by cyberspying, Georgia outs Russia-based hacker -- with photos

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	Irked by cyberspying, Georgia outs Russia-based hacker -- with photos In one of the photos, the dark-haired, bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen, perhaps puzzled at what's happening. Minutes later, he cuts his computer's connection, realizing he has been discovered. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More. In this Issue Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT Election watchdogs keep wary eye on paperless e-voting systems Insecure industrial control systems, hacker trends prompt federal warnings Hopes for federal cybersecurity standards fading Security researcher shares blow-by-blow account of advanced persistent threat South Carolina breach exposes 3.6M SSNs Progress only by permission WHITE PAPER: FireEye Intensified Dangers of Email-Based Attacks Keep your organization safe by staying educated. Download this report to learn more about identifying and preventing cyber attacks. Learn more. Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT When you go to a Gartner conference one of he main things you'll notice is the sheer volume of data they can generate on just about any IT topic. Last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., was no different. The conference, attended by some 9,000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future. Read More Election watchdogs keep wary eye on paperless e-voting systems As the clock winds down to what could turn out to be an extremely close presidential race, some election watchdogs are keeping a wary eye on paperless electronic voting machines that are scheduled to be used in several key states and jurisdictions around the country. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Vital Security Strategies for Microsoft Exchange The demand for access to email anytime, anywhere, from any device makes it critical for IT to ensure Microsoft Exchange deployments are secure, fast, and available. Learn about vital security requirements every Exchange environment should have in place to improve security and availability for Exchange. Read Now. Insecure industrial control systems, hacker trends prompt federal warnings Security researchers fed up with what they see as the glacial pace with which vendors fix holes in industrial control systems have exposed vulnerabilities that raised concerns among federal officials. Read More Hopes for federal cybersecurity standards fading Cybersecurity is clearly on the agenda of both Congress and President Obama. But it is just as clearly not at the top of their list. Read More WEBCAST: PhoneFactor Strong Security for Remote Workers Is Just a Phone Call Away Live Webcast: Tuesday, October 30th at 12:00pm ET Join Steve Dispensa, PhoneFactor Chief Technology Officer, and Sarah Fender, PhoneFactor Vice President of Marketing & Product Management, to learn how phone-based authentication is helping companies tackle complex authentication challenges. Learn More Security researcher shares blow-by-blow account of advanced persistent threat Hackers are brazenly infiltrating corporate networks to steal valuable data for purposes of sharing it with other companies or nation-states -- and they're getting away with it, say security researchers sharing war stories at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami this week. Read More South Carolina breach exposes 3.6M SSNs In the biggest data compromise of the year, Social Security Numbers belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue. Read More Progress only by permission The Copyright Clause in the U.S. Constitution reads: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The copyright part of this clause -- the part referring to authors -- has become a stick to bludgeon technology, not just to protect authors' rights. Read More
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