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	Windows XP SP2 and 7 other things Microsoft has killed this year Microsoft's official curtailing this week of support and patches for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 marks the latest in a string of moves by the company to kill off products and technologies that either outlived their usefulness or never became useful in the first place. 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 Cisco Linksys among "millions" of hackable routers The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets Top 10 social networking threats ZeuS Trojan attempts to exploit MasterCard, Visa security programs Cisco tops in IPS: survey Maiffret returns to eEye Digital Security why executives are the easiest social engineering targets Finjan sues McAfee, Symantec over patent claims White House meeting aimed to assert cybersecurity leadership Talk on China Cyber Army pulled after pressure Will security worries propel DNS into the cloud? Trojan attacks credit cards of 15 US banks IBM boosts IPS platform with Web application security, data-loss prevention Some experts question efforts to identify cyberattackers Oracle releases 59 patches for security flaws, three critical With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks Researchers find privacy flaws in Chatroulette BlackBerry offers users free security app WEBCAST: Meraki Take Your WiFi to the Cloud Learn how to bring simplicity, security and scalability to your wireless network by leveraging the cloud. This Webcast demonstrates how cloud-controlled WiFi delivers: • Security • Reliability • Performance View now! Cisco Linksys among "millions" of hackable routers Ever want to hack into millions of routers? Or try to stop someone from doing so?Perhaps a discussion at the upcoming Black Hat conference in Las Vegas will help you in either or both goals. And its title, "How to Hack Millions of Routers," cuts right to the chase too. Read More The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets Spam continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail box. M86 Security says that the worldwide spam volume has now climbed to 230 billion messages per day, up from 200 billion at the start of 2010. Read More Top 10 social networking threats Social network tools have changed the way we interact in our personal lives and are in the process of transforming our professional lives. Increasingly, they play a significant role in how business gets done. But they're also high risk. With hundreds of millions of users, these tools have attracted attackers more than any other target in recent years. Read More ZeuS Trojan attempts to exploit MasterCard, Visa security programs The notorious ZeuS banking Trojan is showing off a new trick: Popping up on infected computers with a fake enrollment screen for the "Verified By Visa" or "MasterCard SecureCode Security" programs. Read More Cisco tops in IPS: survey Cisco is the "top dog" in a recent customer survey of the leading Intrusion Prevention System vendors conducted by Infonetics Research. The June survey queried IPS buyers at 105 US and Canadian companies with at least 100 employees. Read More Maiffret returns to eEye Digital Security Marc Maiffret has left FireEye and is back at the company he helped launch, three years after breaking away. Read More WEBCAST: Nimsoft Reasons to Consider Cloud IT Monitoring Join this Webcast to learn the value of IT monitoring delivered via the cloud. You can monitor and manage all business applications, from the data center to the cloud, including SaaS, hosted, and virtualized environments—all with a single product, architecture, and console. There's even a 30-day free trial download. View Now why executives are the easiest social engineering targets Security managers are often concerned about employees who use Facebook at work and fall for the 419 "I'm trapped in London and need money" scam. Others might still have some in their organization who are convinced it is the Prince of Nigeria who wants to share his fortune. And with spear phishing, a targeted email attack in which messages are created to look like they come from an employer, bank or other trusted source, now a common criminal technique, the need for effective awareness programs for employees has become paramount. But those concerns, according to Jayson Street, a security consultant and CIO of Stratagem 1 Solutions, shouldn't be the chief worry. That's because the biggest social engineering threat is the top executives in a company -- and they're the ones who need to be educated the most. Read More Finjan sues McAfee, Symantec over patent claims Finjan has sued five rival security companies, including Symantec and McAfee, claiming it holds crucial patents used by popular antivirus products and security services. Read More White House meeting aimed to assert cybersecurity leadership The White House meeting on cybersecurity issues held on Wednesday appears to have been as much about assessing progress on the Presidents cybersecurity agenda as it was on showing executive office leadership on the issue. Read More Talk on China Cyber Army pulled after pressure A talk on China's military cyber-attack capabilities has been pulled from the Black Hat security conference schedule following pressure from Taiwanese and Chinese agencies. Read More Will security worries propel DNS into the cloud? Security on the Internet's Domain Name System will be tightened today, with the addition of digital signatures and public-key encryption to the root zone. But will the deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) prompt more enterprises to outsource their DNS operations? Read More Trojan attacks credit cards of 15 US banks The Zeus/Zbot banking Trojan is reported to be attacking the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode verification systems introduced in recent years to stop old-style card not present (CNP) fraud. Read More WEBCAST: Infoblox Learn 4 Concepts to Network Automation Join this webinar to learn where to start introducing network automation into your organization so you can: • Address Hidden IT Costs • Support Key Initiatives • Achieve Operational Optimization • Apply IT Resources More Strategically View Now! IBM boosts IPS platform with Web application security, data-loss prevention IBM Thursday announced it has added capabilities for Web application protection and data-loss prevention (DLP) to the basic technology platform for its intrusion-system prevention (IPS) product line. Read More Some experts question efforts to identify cyberattackers Efforts by the U.S. government to better identify cyberattackers will likely lead to violations of Internet users' privacy and anonymity, and technological means to attribute the source of the attacks may be inaccurate, privacy and cybersecurity experts said Thursday. Read More Oracle releases 59 patches for security flaws, three critical Oracle Corp. released 59 patches on Tuesday to fix security vulnerabilities across its entire range of database, application and middleware products. Read More With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks Microsoft urged Windows users to update their software Tuesday, saying it's now seen more than 25,000 attacks leveraging one of the critical bugs fixed in July's monthly security patches. Read More Researchers find privacy flaws in Chatroulette Perhaps there is finally something to deter Chatroulette.com users from their more offensive behavior: University researchers say that users of the popular video-chat site may not be as anonymous, or as private, as they think. Read More BlackBerry offers users free security app BlackBerry maker RIM has shown a new free application that owners can use to track their much-loved smartphones in the event they are lost, stolen, or simply misplaced around the house. Read More
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