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	Mozilla unmasks security flaw in Persona, warns other OpenID implementers | McAfee research shows sharp rise in malware signed with legitimate digital certificates
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	The Very Mysterious NSA Quiz They know everything about you but what do you know about them? Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell SecureNetworks CISO's Guide to Advanced Attackers No matter the size of your organization, advanced cyber-attacks represent a credible threat to your organization. Security analyst firm Securoris and Dell SecureWorks collaborated on this guide to help gather intelligence, mine for threat indicators, respond to alerts and break the attack process. Read now! In this Issue Mozilla unmasks security flaw in Persona, warns other OpenID implementers McAfee research shows sharp rise in malware signed with legitimate digital certificates Meet the man behind Silk Road, the online drug marketplace the FBI has seized Bitcoin forum goes offline after hack Instagram is wrecking your dinner (and lunch too for that matter) 5 steps for application security Lawmaker: Snowden may have had help with leaks Google adds pix search to Chrome, squashes 50 bugs US demanded access to encryption keys of email provider Lavabit Dell updates private cloud to become PCI compliant WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Demonstrate the Business Value of Security This Forrester report highlights the most common mistakes made in the budgeting process and offers Forrester's step-by-step Information Security Value Model to guide you through a strategy to support smart investment and resource allocation. Learn More Mozilla unmasks security flaw in Persona, warns other OpenID implementers A vulnerability found recently in an OpenID-based feature of the Mozilla Persona online identity management service prompted the company to advise Web developers to check their OpenID implementations for similar issues. Read More McAfee research shows sharp rise in malware signed with legitimate digital certificates McAfee research indicates that a steep rise in the amount of malware signed with legitimate digital certificates — not forged or stolen ones — is a growing threat that raises the question whether there should be some kind of "certificate reputation services" or other method to stop certificate abuse. Read More Meet the man behind Silk Road, the online drug marketplace the FBI has seized The FBI arrested the proprietor of Silk Road, the industry-leading online black market for buying and selling drugs, in San Francisco yesterday, according to several reports. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Gaining Real-Time Protection with IP Perimeter Intelligence Attack methodologies change. Threat vectors change. Once-powerful defenses become obsolete. As the pace of these changes increases, it's unrealistic to wait for defense methods to catch up, or for new products to be developed and releases pushed out. View Now Bitcoin forum goes offline after hack A popular Bitcoin forum, Bitcointalk.org, remained offline Wednesday night as it investigated a cyberattack. Read More Instagram is wrecking your dinner (and lunch too for that matter) Seems that all those Instagrammed photos of food are more than just annoying, they could hurt our desire to eat. Read More 5 steps for application security The software development lifecycle can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, software needs to be developed with usability in mind, and it needs to be produced quickly. On the other hand, it also needs to maintain a solid security base. Having those two sides in equal measure is easier said than done. Darren Meyer, Senior Security Researcher for Veracode, walks us through five steps for secure application development and deployment. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Major forces drive requirement for new application platform Cloud computing, rampant mobility, Big Data, and social business have created challenges never seen before. There is a need for a new application platform. In this webcast, find out about the forces shaping the 'third platform', and why the move to the third platform is the only way to meet customer needs. Learn more Lawmaker: Snowden may have had help with leaks Edward Snowden may not have acted alone, and may have had outside assistance, when he leaked information about the U.S. National Security Agency's data collection and surveillance programs earlier this year. Read More Google adds pix search to Chrome, squashes 50 bugs Google this week updated Chrome to version 30, patching 50 vulnerabilities and paying outsider researchers $27,000 in bounties along the way. Read More US demanded access to encryption keys of email provider Lavabit The U.S. government demanded from email service provider Lavabit access to all user communications and a copy of the encryption keys used to secure web, instant message and email traffic for its investigation into several Lavabit user accounts, according to a post on the Facebook page of founder Ladar Levison. Read More Dell updates private cloud to become PCI compliant Looking to solidify its refocused efforts on private cloud platforms, Dell today rolled out new features to improve security and manageability of its offerings. Read More
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