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How the FTC's Privacy Measures Could Impact the Efforts of IT Security and Fraud Detection

PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has found that the number of threats in circulation has risen, reporting a 26 percent increase in new threats compared to the same period last year.

While the Internet has no Center, Some Pieces of Infrastructure are More Important to Smooth Global Functioning Than Others.

Twitter Enables Option for HTTPS by DefaultFollowing a trend in allowing users to automatically utilize the secure HTTPS protocol when accessing Web based services, Twitter announced this week that it has added the option for users to force HTTPS connections by default when accessing Twitter.com.

Amazon Web Services has announced expanded functionality of its Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Service, by letting enterprises specify which of their Amazon VPC resources they wish to make directly accessible to the Internet and which they do not.

Chicago based Trustwave, a provider of security and compliance solutions, today released a tool that provides its enterprise clients the ability to manage all forms of penetration tests in real-time, and be presented with live, detailed test results and recommendations. With the results gathered from penetration tests, the generically named PenTest Manager displays rich media demonstrations including image slideshows and screen capture videos displaying how vulnerabilities can be exploited.

To Effectively Manage Risk, Security Teams Must have the Ability to Turn Event Data into Actionable Information to Mitigate Rising Threats and Vulnerabilities.

Adobe has issued a warning of a newly identified critical vulnerability in its Flash Player, and that the vulnerability is being exploited in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in Microsoft Excel (.xls) files delivered via email.

Anonymous, the group of online hackers notorious for its politically charged “hacktivism,” has released a massive batch of internal Bank of America emails.

In order for Virtualization to Establish itself as a Widely Trusted Approach to Infrastructure Deployment, Adaptive Security Technologies are Necessary

Today’s tragic events of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting Tsunami, as sad as it is, is a dream for scammers and fraudsters around the world.

New DNS Security product Helps Prevents Connections to Known Malicious Internet Locations

Call them errors behind the keyboard, cockpit errors, or wetware errors. Sometimes we just say “oops.” But, these terms do not do them justice. In reality, whatever you call them, they are the bane of our existence. Studies show varying ranges on how many of the vulnerabilities, errors, and subsequent data and/or system compromises we see because a user or admin did something wrong. But, do we have any sense for how negligent we, as users, really are?

Nadeem Akhtar of Maryland faces charges for the illegal exportation of items that are used directly or indirectly in activities related to nuclear reactors and the processing and production of nuclear-related materials.“The indictment alleges that Nadeem Akhtar conspired to violate export regulations by selling controlled items while misrepresenting what they were and to whom they would be sold” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.