Security World: Security appliances are riddled with serious vulnerabilities, researcher says

'NotCompatible' Android malware rears its ugly head, again | Increased spy access to Americans' banking data raises privacy concerns

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Security appliances are riddled with serious vulnerabilities, researcher says
The majority of email and Web gateways, firewalls, remote access servers, UTM (united threat management) systems and other security appliances have serious vulnerabilities, according to a security researcher who analyzed products from multiple vendors. Read More

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3 Steps to a Cost-Effective Mobile Strategy
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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.

'NotCompatible' Android malware rears its ugly head, again
The "NotCompatible" malware, designed to infect Android devices and turn them into unwitting Web proxies, is suddenly showing a sharp uptick in activity, according to mobile security vendor Lookout. Read More

Increased spy access to Americans' banking data raises privacy concerns
Spy agencies like the CIA and NSA would have access to a database used to fight domestic financial crime under a proposal being drafted by the Obama Administration. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT
This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More.

Hackers can cause traffic jams by manipulating real-time traffic data, researcher says
Hackers can influence real-time traffic-flow-analysis systems to make people drive into traffic jams or to keep roads clear in areas where a lot of people use Google or Waze navigation systems, a German researcher demonstrated at BlackHat Europe. Read More

Apple updates Mountain Lion, patches Safari
Apple yesterday updated OS X Mountain Lion for the first time in six months, patching 14 security vulnerabilities and addressing a host of other issues. Read More

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VIDEO: Layer 2 Discovery & Asset Reporting
WhatsUp Gold includes Layer 2 discovery as part of the core product bringing you automatically generated Layer 2 topology maps, IT asset reporting, current & historical network documentation, and easy-to-use troubleshooting tools. All of this available within the same interface as all your network management data. View now.

Potential weakness in SSL/TLS security downplayed by certificate group
Claims by a cryptography researcher this week about weaknesses in the RC4 algorithm used in SSL/TLS certificates is being downplayed by the group known as the Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC) which was recently established to address questions on security in this area. Read More

Honeypot for phony waterworks gets hammered on Internet
An experiment in which a Trend Micro researcher set up two instances of an Internet-based simulation of an industrial-control system (ICS) for a nonexistent water-pump facility in rural Missouri found the simulated system was targeted 17 times over about four months in ways that would have been catastrophic if it had been a real waterworks operation. Read More

The 'Minority Report' shopping experience
Everywhere you go these days -- every store, every urban street, every car park, every ATM -- there are video cameras watching where you go and what you do. Just what are "they" (whoever "they" are) doing with all of that video surveillance? Read More

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