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Social Media and Location-Based Technologies Top Concerns for 2011As we approach December, predictions for what’s to come in 2011 are flowing in almost daily. Just last week several firms said threats targeting the fast growing smartphone and tablet markets topped lists of cyber concerns for 2011.

"The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, commenting on the latest release of confidential documents by WikiLeaks.

INSIDE Contactless, a provider semiconductor solutions for mobile devices, secure transactions and digital identity, today introduced SecuRead, a system-in-package (SIP) near field communication (NFC) solution that helps manufacturers of NFC mobile and other devices to integrate all of the contactless, security and application functions required for a broad range of NFC payment, retail, transit, ID and access control applications.

iovation, a provider of online fraud detection solutions, announced today that its suite of anti-fraud solutions would be available in Japan through a partnership with Tokyo-based Info Innovation Japan, Inc. Info Innovation Japan will exclusively represent iovation’s solutions to online communities, retailers, online gaming, financial services and payment service providers.

Trend Micro announced today is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile Armor, a provider of data protection solutions.Mobile Armor's data protection offerings provide full-disk, file/folder, and removable media encryption for endpoints. They will complement Trend Micro's existing data loss prevention, email encryption and cloud encryption products.

WikiLeaks Under DDoS Attack Around Time of Expected Massive Release of State Department DocumentsWikiLeaks has reported that its Web site is currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. The whistleblower Web site posted an update via Twitter early Sunday afternoon.

Apparently the leaked photos from TSA “full body scanners” aren’t the only things that have been leaked lately. A trusted source tipped us off and was able to send along some "in action” photos taken from an undisclosed domestic airport, showing TSA Officers as they did their jobs to help keep America safe.

Register.com and Baidu announced that they have settled their litigation as a results of a cyber-attack in January 2010 on Baidu.com when Register.Com granted access to Baidu’s DNS controls to hackers without properly performing security checks.Baidu is the No. 1 search engine in China and currently has $38 Billion market cap on the NASDAQ.Register.com issued the following statement:

Companies to Combine Marketing and Technology Resources to Assist in Brand Protection Document Security Systems, a Rochester, NY based provider of document security solutions, and Eastman Kodak have announced a partnership in which they will provide applications to will enable a broad range of industries and governments to combat the increasingly damaging effects of counterfeiting and brand fraud.What types of documents and items really need such protection? A lot.

Trouble Ahead - The Implementation Challenges for DNSSECThere has been a lot of recent buzz surrounding implementation of Domain Name System Security extensions (i.e., DNSSEC). The latest example: verification and signing of DNSSEC for the .IN (India) and .ASIA top-level domains (TLDs), which are being pitched as major enhancements to global security for much of Asia.

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