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Are your passwords safe? Three simple ways to create memorable yet secure passwords

Identity and Access Management Product Enhancements Help Fulfill Vision for Content-Aware IAM for Distributed and Mainframe EnvironmentsCA Technologies took another step toward fulfilling its vision for Content-Aware Identity and Access management (IAM) today with new releases and enhancements to several of its offerings.

Cloud Disaster Recovery - Ingredients for a Recipe that Saves Money and Offers a Safe, More Secure Situation with Greater Accessibility

BitDefender, a provider of innovative internet security solutions based in Bucharest, Romania, today released a Free Antispam for Linux Mail Servers. The product uses the same antispam engines that earned the company a perfect track record, with 9 VBSpam Awards in periodic tests run by Virus Bulletin.

Update - The company has since released a beta version of the Nevercookie plug-in

Researchers Predict Advanced, Blended Threats, Laser-Focused on Attacking Business and InfrastructureWeb security researchers say that recent evidence and metrics suggest that cybercriminals and their blended attacks are having a field day taking advantage of security gaps left open by legacy technologies like firewalls, antivirus, and simple URL blockers.

AVG Technologies, a provider of free consumer security solutions, today announced that it would acquire DroidSecurity, a cloud-based mobile security company based in Tel Aviv.

Update 1:23PM EST (11/10/10) - Facebook has confirmed the issue was on their end. A representative confirms in an email to SecurityWeek: "We began removing the posts immediately upon discovering them and shortly after they were made.

Students and professors at Washington State University arriving for class last Friday morning were greeted with a surprise video message on classroom video screens, courtesy of an unknown hacker who gained control of the campus media services system.According to Darin Watkins, Executive Director for external communications at Washington State University, the hack caused video screens in several classrooms in two buildings to simultaneously come down without warning, followed by a video automatically playing on the screen.

VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY - TEN CRITERIA BY WHICH TO EVALUATE YOUR VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY

Backupify, a provider of online backup, archiving and export services for cloud-based data, today launched a backup and archival solution for Facebook Fan Pages.With the new solution, users can backup all Facebook data from a unified account. Backup of Fan Pages adds to the company’s existing solutions to backup other Facebook data, including News Feeds, Wall Posts, Photo Albums and Messages.

Americans Not Practicing Safe Social Networking

Hospitals Are Not Protecting Patient Data; Healthcare Industry Lagging Behind HITECH Standards

IT Departments Dealing with Significant Policy Violations, Disrespect, and the Need to Strike Balance Between Keeping Employees Happy and Empowered while Managing Risk

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. today announced that its Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances are now capable of delivering instant awareness of Web applications and content using “classification by URL category” functionality. With the new features, PacketShaper appliances provide control that can immediately manage new Web applications and content without requiring updates 
or new policies.

Perimeter E-Security, a provider of information security services, today announced that Andrew Jaquith has joined the company as its new Chief Technology Officer.Andrew Jaquith will lead Perimeter's Flagship Security and Messaging Portfolio at the company's Boston Innovation Center which opened back in August.

A former technical operations associate in Bristol-Myers Squibb's management training program entered a guilty plea last week to a one-count information charging him with theft of trade secrets from the company, according to an announcement today from U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York Richard S. Hartunian.

Organizations Fail to Support Database Security Deployments and Training; Database, Audit and Security Departments Fail to Communicate or Take ResponsibilityComplacency is hampering information security efforts, resulting in lax security practices and oversight, and leaving sensitive corporate data vulnerable theft. That was the general conclusion according to the results of a survey of database administrators and managers released today.

BlackSheep Extension Helps Identify FireSheep Session Hijacking

A former University of Akron student was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for conducting Denial of Service Attacks on the sites of several prominent conservative figures as well as infecting several systems with botnet zombies.