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	NSA: Looking for a few good cybersecurity professionals At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold (between 2009 and 2011), the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute. However, 83% of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it was extremely difficult to find well-trained cybersecurity professionals and a projected shortfall of 20,000 to more than 40,000 people is expected in the years to come. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds 82% of data breaches can be identified prior to a compromise Knowing that your next threat may already be hiding in your logs doesn't help without powerful log and event analysis to help you find them. Safeguard your network, systems, and security infrastructure against today's threats with a proactive defense strategy using SolarWinds LEM. *Source: Verizon Business, Data Breach Investigations Report. Cover Your IT Assets by Downloading a Free Trial of Solarwinds Log & Event Manger Today! In this Issue Firefox turns 8 and gets a key security boost The Elections and Cybersecurity Firefox users slowest to update browser, Kaspersky Lab finds Shareholders kept in the dark on data breaches How to Secure Big Data in Hadoop The Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards nominations: Vote early, vote often! Ransomware crooks make millions from porn-shaming scams Adobe Reader X sandbox bypassed by zero-day flaw NASA fires-up experimental space Internet for robot control RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Firefox turns 8 and gets a key security boost Between Android and Firefox, this has been a big week for milestones in the world of free and open source software. Read More The Elections and Cybersecurity When President Obama was reelected last week, political pundits quickly turned to speculation and prognostication. Was the president's reelection tantamount to a mandate? Would the election motivate both parties away from partisanship toward more cooperation? Good questions and very timely in light of the oft mentioned "fiscal cliff" we face in January. Given my particular focus, I immediately... Read More Firefox users slowest to update browser, Kaspersky Lab finds Nearly 1 in 4 PC users run out-of-date or obsolete versions of the most popular browsers for a month or longer with Mozilla Firefox users the slowest to update their software, Kaspersky Lab has found. Read More 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. Shareholders kept in the dark on data breaches It happened more than three and a half years ago. So it presumably would be old news that Chinese hackers broke into soft drink behemoth Coca-Cola's computer systems and stole confidential files relating to its effort to acquire the China Huiyuan Juice Group for $2.4 billion. But it is just coming to light now. Read More How to Secure Big Data in Hadoop The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project from the beginning. Here are some steps you can take to avoid big data pitfalls. Read More The Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards nominations: Vote early, vote often! This November marks the ninth year for which we will be announcing the Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards ... Read More WEBCAST: PhoneFactor Strong Security for Remote Workers Is Just a Phone Call Away Live Webcast: Thursday November 29th at 2:00pm 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 Ransomware crooks make millions from porn-shaming scams Ransomware is a growth industry that puts at least $5 million a year into criminals' coffers, according to Symantec. Read More Adobe Reader X sandbox bypassed by zero-day flaw Criminals have gained access to a newly discovered flaw in Adobe's Reader X program that can beat its sandboxing security isolation technology, Russian security firm Group-IB has claimed. Read More NASA fires-up experimental space Internet for robot control NASA said today it had teamed with the European Space Agency to successfully test an experimental version of an "interplanetary Internet" to control a robot on the ground in Germany from a laptop onboard the International Space Station. Read More
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