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Friday, March 26, 2010

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Five ways to beat the Great Firewall of China
Despite China's best efforts, its citizens can access banned content over the Internet via Google and other means Read More

Howard Schmidt: Cybersecurity Battle 'Different'
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt on working with President Obama, gaining access to new resources, and the status of specific cybersecurity initiatives Read More

iPhone, Safari, IE8, Firefox all fall on day one of Pwn2Own
Hackers took down Apple's iPhone and Safari browser, Microsoft's Internet Explore 8 (IE8) and Mozilla's Firefox within minutes at today's Pwn2Own contest, as expected. Read More

Police, security officials meet on cybercrime strategies
When the "ILOVEYOU" worm crippled computer systems worldwide 10 years ago this spring, authorities in the Philippines didn't even have a law to properly charge its author. Read More


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Data loss prevention – a priority for 2010
In the last newsletter we began a conversation with Corey Nachreiner, WatchGuard Senior Security Analyst, concerning some points in their "2010 Security Predictions," available at http://www.webtorials.com/content/2010/02/2010-security.html. Read More

Cyberattacks are 'existential threat' to U.S., FBI says
Cyberattacks are a threat to the 'very existence' of the U.S., an FBI officials told an audience at an IT trade show on Tuesday. Read More

Symantec offering Web Monitoring service to detect botnet activity
Symantec Tuesday announced a Web monitoring service intended to unearth evidence of botnet-related malware activity within an organization by continuously looking at outbound HTTP traffic for suspicious signs of Trojans on compromised computers trying to "call home" to their criminal controllers. Read More

Gmail now warns users of suspicious account activity
Google today added an alert to Gmail that warns users of the Web mail service when their account may have been hijacked. Read More


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Zero days to infect, but a day and a half to fix
Over the last couple weeks, we've had some interesting security challenges here at my company. Policy compliance has been keeping me busy, and if that weren't enough, we've been having more fun with viruses. Read More

French police make arrest in hijacking of Obama's Twitter account
An unemployed Frenchman who used the online handle Hacker Croll has been arrested by French police for hijacking President Obamas Twitter account, and that of numerous others, according to news service Agence-France Presse. Read More

Cybersecurity bill passes first hurdle
A closely watched bill that promises to introduce some major changes on the federal cybersecurity front was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee today just days after it was introduced by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Read More

Top U.S. domain name registrars lag on DNS security
The leading domain name registrars in the United States appear to be dragging their feet on the deployment of DNS Security Extensions, an emerging standard that prevents an insidious type of hacking attack where network traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or user knowing. Read More

Tips for crafting a great workplace IT security awareness program
IT security pros share tips on implementing information security awareness programs in the workplace at SecureWorld Boston Read More



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