Tips for using "anti-social" networks; US Air Force caught in own phishing net

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	Tips for using Twitter, Facebook and other "anti-social networks" Corporations should institute daily one-minute Internet safety lessons that users must complete before they are allowed online, a security expert told Interop attendees this week, but he said even that might not work because attackers pay more attention to the advice than those it is intended to protect. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue US Air Force phishing test transforms into a problem Security pros, meet your new best friend: the CFO Symantec encryption buyouts raise open source, overlap questions Diary of a mad McAfee antivirus victim Symantec buying PGP Corp., GuardianEdge for $370 million New tool makes end users responsible for data loss prevention Inside Oracle's security assurance program Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict PDF exploits explode, continue climb in 2010 What's wrong with the PCI security standard Encryption high-priority for Massachusetts Smartphone management becoming a nightmare Computer contractor gets five years for $2M credit union theft Glype 'anonymous' proxy may not cloak your identity Researcher: Social networks shouldn't reuse private info Opt-in ISP-level Internet filter wasn't feasible: Academics Google patches Chrome for second time this month WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Extended Security Features of Windows 7 Microsoft has added significant security enhancement to Windows 7. This Gartner research note details the capabilities available (many are only available to EA/SA subscribers), which features should be activated and where some security holes still remain. Read More. US Air Force phishing test transforms into a problem Sorry Airman Supershaggy, "Transformers 3" is not coming to Andersen Air Force Base. And by the way, you've been phished. Read More Security pros, meet your new best friend: the CFO Executives in charge of information security should make friends with the CFO, who can give them a broad overview of corporate priorities and see to funding the most important IT projects that protect corporate data. Read More Symantec encryption buyouts raise open source, overlap questions Symantec's announced acquisitions Thursday of data encryption specialists PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies have industry watchers wondering which products will stay and go, and how open source PGP will fare in the wake of the buyouts. Read More Diary of a mad McAfee antivirus victim As if McAfee's bad antivirus update last week wasn't bad enough, some customers were none too happy with how the security vendor's tech support handled the situation either. Read More Symantec buying PGP Corp., GuardianEdge for $370 million Symantec Thursday announced plans to acquire PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies for approximately $370 million, a move that will give Symantec a firm foothold in the encryption technology market. Read More WHITE PAPER: ManageEngine 5 Keys to Preventing Application Delay Examine the 6 challenges organizations face from application delays, as well as the 5 capabilities needed to effectively address and overcome problems. Read More New tool makes end users responsible for data loss prevention When there is a real-time alert, someone in IT has to make a decision: let the action go or quarantine the data. This is too time-consuming, and it requires IT to inspect the data. Check Point Software Technologies just introduced a DLP solution that puts the onus for remediating the alert onto the worker who triggered it. Read More Inside Oracle's security assurance program Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson walks SOURCE Boston attendees through her company's evolving secure coding effort. Read More Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict Terry Childs' guilty conviction struck a nerve with IT staffers this week. Read More PDF exploits explode, continue climb in 2010 Exploits of Adobe's PDF format jumped dramatically last year, and continue to climb during 2010, a McAfee security researcher said. Read More What's wrong with the PCI security standard The security standard used to protect credit cards isn't up to the task and upgrades that are planned for this fall do virtually nothing to improve it, a security expert told Interop attendees this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Ethernet Performance Metrics Ethernet performance measurement can help. Various metrics can quantify and characterize performance. Test plans can be written to satisfy varying organizational objectives. This white paper will describe advancements in field measurement of end-to-end Ethernet performance. Read More! Encryption high-priority for Massachusetts The Massachusetts data-privacy law that kicked in this March requires, among other things, the encryption of personally identifiable information when sent over the Internet. Government agencies have also been given their own guidelines by the state's governor, which has prompted new encryption technology deployments. Read More Smartphone management becoming a nightmare A survey of 475 Interop attendees pegged mobile device management as the biggest mobile concern, with 200 people saying that is their top worry. Read More Computer contractor gets five years for $2M credit union theft For the second time this week, companies are getting a stark reminder of the danger posed to enterprise networks and assets by insiders with privileged access. Read More Glype 'anonymous' proxy may not cloak your identity A widely used proxy service thought to provide anonymous Web surfing and used to skirt network administrator bans on access to sites like Facebook frequently reveals sensitive information about its users, according to a Swiss security researcher. Read More Researcher: Social networks shouldn't reuse private info A Microsoft researcher argues that user data should not be reused by social networks Read More Opt-in ISP-level Internet filter wasn't feasible: Academics An opt-in/opt-out ISP-level filter, first suggested in the February 2008 Feasibility Study into ISP Level Content Filtering, was never a feasible alternative to the current ACMA blacklist, according to academics and industry experts. Read More Google patches Chrome for second time this month Google patched three vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome earlier in the week, marking the second time that it's plugged security holes this month. Read More
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