Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec

	Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player | Massive Android malware op may have infected 5 million users
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	Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec It was another busy week for hactivists attacking the online targets of their ire. This time, hackers under the banner AntiSec appeared to have hacked the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. government's online security website, in protest against the much-railed-against legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as well as other bills regarding intellectual protection. Similarly, the group Anonymous is believed to be behind the distributed denial-of-service attack on Thursday that brought down the European Parliament's website in what is thought to be retaliation for European support for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site the week before. Anonymous also opposes a treaty being ratified in Europe now called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That deals with infringement of intellectual property rights. Read More WEBCAST: VMware & NetApp Path to Cloud: Virtualizing Business Critical Applications NetApp and VMware experts discuss how customers can virtualize business-critical applications leveraging common resource pools as key elements to delivering IT as a service. Learn More! In this Issue Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player Massive Android malware op may have infected 5 million users DARPA takes aim at "Achilles Heel" of advanced computing: Power Researchers unearth more Chinese links to defense contractor attacks FTC to scrutinize mobile payment technology CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds How to Prevent Thumb Drive Security Disasters The real reasons why SOPA and PIPA are real bad Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull pcAnywhere's plug RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Palo Alto Networks Gartner Magic Quadrant Exclusive Report Palo Alto Networks was named leader for Enterprise Network Firewalls. According to Gartner, vendors in the leaders quadrant "lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, providing expert capability, rather than treating the firewall as a commodity and having a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products." Click to continue Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player. Read More Massive Android malware op may have infected 5 million users The largest-ever Android malware campaign may have duped as many as 5 million users into downloading infected apps from Google's Android Market, Symantec said today. Read More DARPA takes aim at "Achilles Heel" of advanced computing: Power The power required to increase computing performance, especially in embedded or sensor systems has become a serious constraint and is restricting the potential of future systems. Read More WEBCAST: VMware & NetApp The Key to Successful Disaster Recovery Paula Fortin of Green Mountain Power explains how disaster recovery of their IT environment, based on VMware and NetApp technology solutions, was rapidly recoverable during Hurricane Irene. View Now! Researchers unearth more Chinese links to defense contractor attacks Symantec researchers have uncovered additional clues that point to Chinese hacker involvement in attacks against a large number of Western companies, including major U.S. defense contractors. Read More FTC to scrutinize mobile payment technology Will mobile payments become common, and what will the impact of that technology be? Read More CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware & NetApp Drive IT Efficiency with a Private Cloud Read this success story and find out how NetApp and VMware provided Magna International with a cost-efficient solution. Read Now! How to Prevent Thumb Drive Security Disasters Small USB flash drives can cause big security headaches. Learn how four very different organizations have managed to balance the need to allow employees to transfer files for legitimate business purposes with the need to prevent data leaks. Read More The real reasons why SOPA and PIPA are real bad A reader letter makes Gibbs sum up why SOPA and PIPA are such bad ideas. Read More Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull pcAnywhere's plug Symantec this week told users of its pcAnywhere remote access software to disable or uninstall the software while it fixes an unknown number of bugs. Read More
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