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How to prepare for the CISSP

Posted October 6, 2013 - 4:12 pm

The CISSP is a valuable certification, but it takes a lot more than just your many years of experience to prepare for it. You will likely have to learn about a lot of technology and processes that you’ve never worked with, some of it not especially current and all of it a lot less vendor-specific than you’ve ever imagined.
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Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

Posted October 4, 2013 - 4:53 pm

Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant's own infrastructure.
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Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft

Posted October 4, 2013 - 3:16 pm

Microsoft advises Windows users to use something else
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Report: NSA has little success cracking Tor

Posted October 4, 2013 - 2:23 pm

The U.S. National Security Agency has repeatedly tried to compromise Tor, the government-funded online anonymity tool, but has had little success, according to a new report in the U.K.'s Guardian.
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Containerization Options: How to Choose the Best DLP Solution for Your Organization

Posted October 4, 2013 - 12:45 pm

This webcast outlines a framework for making the right choice when it comes to containerization approaches, along with the pros and cons of the five key Data Leak Prevention solutions.
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5 Steps for Building a Secure Cloud

Posted October 4, 2013 - 11:30 am

Overcome the security challenges of the cloud, read this white paper to learn best practices.
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Web hosting firms at risk from critical vulnerability in WHMCS billing and support system

Posted October 4, 2013 - 10:29 am

The developers of WHMCS, a popular client management, billing and support application for Web hosting providers, released emergency security updates Thursday to patch a critical vulnerability that was publicly disclosed.
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Quiz: What do you know about the NSA?

Posted October 4, 2013 - 9:57 am

They know everything about you but what do you know about them?
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What’s an unemployed spook to do? [CARTOON]

Posted October 4, 2013 - 6:00 am

The government shutdown has forced the NSA to furlough a lot of people. What’s an unemployed spook to do?
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US indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks

Posted October 3, 2013 - 10:39 pm

The U.S. has brought criminal charges against 13 persons, said to be members of the hacker group Anonymous, for their alleged participation in cyberattacks as part of a campaign called Operation Payback.
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Hackers steal information on 2.9 million Adobe customers

Posted October 3, 2013 - 7:43 pm

Hackers broke into the internal computer network of Adobe Systems and stole information on 2.9 million customers, as well as source code for several of the company's products.
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IT Security - Fighting the Silent Threat

Posted October 3, 2013 - 5:15 pm

"IT Security - Fighting the Silent Threat" is a global report into business attitudes and opinions on IT security. Download the report now to get quantifiable statistics about perceived versus real cyberattacks.
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Cutting Complexity - Simplifying Security

Posted October 3, 2013 - 5:15 pm

Kaspersky Lab's latest whitepaper, "Cutting Complexity - Simplifying Security" looks at how the latest IT Systems Management solutions can simplify and automate a vast range of routine IT management tasks.
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What to do after your email account is compromised

Posted October 3, 2013 - 4:40 pm

Here is what I tell people who want to know what to do next, after their email has been opened up and sorted through.
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Mozilla unmasks security flaw in Persona, warns other OpenID implementers

Posted October 3, 2013 - 12:57 pm

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.
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McAfee research shows sharp rise in malware signed with legitimate digital certificates

Posted October 3, 2013 - 12:23 pm

This 'certificate abuse' represents a growing threat, says McAfee researcher.
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How to build the ultimate PC security suite for free

Posted October 3, 2013 - 12:16 pm

Take some time this weekend to secure your PC without spending a dime.
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EU government telco provider was subjected to major attack

Posted October 3, 2013 - 12:14 pm

The Internet service and telco provider to all the European Union’s official institutions was subjected to a malware attack that “no single company or authority could withstand on its own” admitted the company’s secretary general on Thursday.
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Start-up Netskope keeps watch on enterprise cloud usage

Posted October 3, 2013 - 12:11 pm

Start-up Netskope comes out of stealth mode today in unveiling its security service intended to help enterprises monitor how employees are using cloud-based applications, such as Salesforce.com, while also giving IT managers the ability to block data transfers or receive alerts.
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Lawmaker: Snowden may have had help with leaks

Posted October 3, 2013 - 11:50 am

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.
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Bitcoin forum goes offline after hack

Posted October 3, 2013 - 1:39 am

A popular Bitcoin forum, Bitcointalk.org, remained offline Wednesday night as it investigated a cyberattack.
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Yahoo abandons T-shirt rewards for vulnerability information

Posted October 2, 2013 - 11:42 pm

Yahoo will stop giving T-shirts as a reward for finding security vulnerabilities after a public shaming it's calling "t-shirt gate."
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US demanded access to encryption keys of email provider Lavabit

Posted October 2, 2013 - 11:27 pm

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.
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Mocana unwraps protection for iOS 7 apps

Posted October 2, 2013 - 10:00 pm

Mocana will soon allow companies to wrap iOS 7 apps in a layer of security software designed to insulate enterprise data from hackers who are becoming increasingly interested in smartphones.
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The 7 best crime-fighting features of iOS 7

Posted October 2, 2013 - 4:18 pm

Let's be honest: Security isn't sexy. iPhone and iPad users are understandably enamored with iOS 7's photography features and Siri's new voice and likely haven't given a thought to the host of security additions under the hood. But iPhone theft is on the rise everywhere, and your device could be next.
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