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	Skype says scam calls on a steady decline Skype has been battling wily adversaries who are abusing the Internet calling application to direct people to scam websites, but the Microsoft-owned service says the sham calls are decreasing. 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 HTTP Strict Transport Security becomes Internet standard Technology built into mannequins helping stores track customers Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing .eu domains in attacks Experts question guilty verdict for AT&T 'hackers' Symantec spots odd malware designed to corrupt databases Senate bill to allow warrantless government access to your online services South Carolina faults weak IRS standard in massive data breach Linux users targeted by mystery drive-by rootkit 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! HTTP Strict Transport Security becomes Internet standard A Web security policy mechanism that promises to make HTTPS-enabled websites more resilient to various types of attacks has been approved and released as an Internet standard -- but despite support from some high-profile websites, adoption elsewhere is still low. Read More Technology built into mannequins helping stores track customers Facebook and Google aren't the only companies with the ability to spy on you. Brick-and-mortar stores can too a thanks to some creepy technology. 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 Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing .eu domains in attacks Cybercriminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. Read More Experts question guilty verdict for AT&T 'hackers' After verdict in iPad email address case, experts say Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 needs major update Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell SonicWall Why Protection and Performance Matters Outdated firewalls can pose serious security risks and simply adding malware protection inhibits performance. Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls overcome these limitations with multi-core architecture and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection for unrivaled protection and performance. Read Now! Symantec spots odd malware designed to corrupt databases Symantec had spotted another odd piece of malware that appears to be targeting Iran and is designed to meddle with SQL databases. Read More Senate bill to allow warrantless government access to your online services In a dumbfounding display of politics at work, a U.S. Senate bill that, at one point, would have protected e-mail privacy has gone the opposite way, and would allow government surveillance of online services without a warrant if passed into law. Read More South Carolina faults weak IRS standard in massive data breach South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social Security numbers of 3.8 million taxpayers plus credit card and bank account data. Read More Linux users targeted by mystery drive-by rootkit Security researchers have discovered what appears to be an experimental Linux rootkit designed to infect its highly select victims during a classic drive-by website attack. Read More
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