Boycotting RSA Conference is a misplaced endeavor

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	Boycotting RSA Conference is a misplaced endeavor I have watched on silently from the sidelines as the "boycott RSA Conference" story has played out. Now that we are a month or so away from the conference "where the world talks security" I just can't hold it in any longer. I really think the few outliers who have announced they are boycotting and not speaking or attending this year's RSA Conference have gotten more than their 15 minutes worth. ... Read More WHITE PAPER: HootSuite Media, Inc. 5 Step Guide to Social Media Security As businesses embrace social media, related security breaches are on the rise. Corporate Twitter hackings. Rogue employees on the company Facebook account. Executives sharing confidential info on their personal accounts. Learn More In this Issue TrustyCon vs. RSA and NSA: New conference pushes trustworthy agenda Researchers discover Spoiled Onions: Evil Tor exit relays spying on Facebook users 10 trends in IT spending for 2014 China blames Internet outage on hacking attack Some Tor exit nodes attempt to spy on encrypted traffic, researchers find 12 privacy-destroying technologies that should scare you The processes and tools behind a true APT campaign: Weaponization and delivery WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Post-TMG: Securing Internet Facing Microsoft Apps Organizations currently using or considering Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) may face the dilemma of how, and what, administrators will use to secure Internet-facing Microsoft applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync with the departure of TMG. Read this paper to learn more about alternative solutions to Microsoft TMG. Read now>> TrustyCon vs. RSA and NSA: New conference pushes trustworthy agenda Who do you trust? That's a question asked increasingly by a security industry with a growing sense that the National Security Agency (NSA) has sought to weaken encryption or get backdoors into computers, based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden to the media. Now, trust is also the theme of a new conference called TrustyCon that will vie for attention on Feb. 27 in San Francisco while the big RSA Conference for security pros is also taking place in that city. Read More Researchers discover Spoiled Onions: Evil Tor exit relays spying on Facebook users Tor, The Onion Router that helps protect users' privacy, just can't catch a break lately. First Microsoft remotely deleted Tor from Windows machines during an attempt to takedown the Sefnit botnet. Then the research paper, Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays [pdf], explained how evil nodes in Russia were being used to spy on Facebook users as well as Tor users browsing other sites. Microsoft... Read More WHITE PAPER: Apperian Unlock the Value of Enterprise Mobility Download this guide and learn how to manage the secure deployment of enterprise mobile apps and data, while still encouraging the levels of employee adoption needed to drive the productivity and ROI gains that are possible. Learn More 10 trends in IT spending for 2014 After years of maintenance-only spending, IT leaders are ready to invest. Find out which technologies -- and which IT professionals -- are pulling down the dough. Read More China blames Internet outage on hacking attack Tuesday's Internet outage in China is dividing experts over what caused the networking error, with authorities calling it a hacking attack, and others blaming it on the country's censorship systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Storage Insight: Debunk the Data Storage Myths Of all the obstacles standing in the way of building a better IT infrastructure, misinformation may be the most daunting. This informative eBook is designed to provide the immediate insight you need to make the right decisions about some of the most important IT issues your enterprise will ever face. Read Now>> Some Tor exit nodes attempt to spy on encrypted traffic, researchers find Computer scientists found almost 20 exit relays in the Tor anonymity network that attempted to spy on users' encrypted traffic using man-in-the-middle techniques. Read More 12 privacy-destroying technologies that should scare you Technology is not evil, only its use or misuse. But in the case of this dirty dozen, the potential for abuse is frightening. Read More The processes and tools behind a true APT campaign: Weaponization and delivery This article is part of a series about APT campaigns. The other topics covered in this series are reconnaissance, weaponization and delivery, command and control, and exfiltration. Read More
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