Hacker group defies U.S. law, defends exposing McAfee website vulnerabilities

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	Hacker group defies U.S. law, defends exposing McAfee website vulnerabilities The hacker group that exposed holes in McAfee's website knows it's breaking U.S. law, but vows to continue exposing vulnerabilities, especially on security vendor websites. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks SANS: Enabling Social Networking Apps for Enterprise Usage This whitepaper, written by a SANS analyst, provides the latest research regarding social networking applications, explains the benefits and risks that they bring to corporate networks, and provides a recommendation for defining a secure social networking policy. Read now! In this Issue Researchers' SSL offloader costs fraction of commercial hardware No joy for would-be baby shakers and drunk drivers Man-in-the-Browser attacks target the enterprise Most approve of hosting games on company gear, survey finds Critical NASA network was open to Internet attack VIPRE maker explains false positive on Samsung laptops, apologizes Comodo hacker claims another certificate authority Companies pick and choose which data breaches to report Restaurant chain to pay $110,000 to settle breach claims BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants Behind the curtain of a botnet business WHITE PAPER: CA The 2010 Handbook of Application Delivery Now is the time for application delivery 2.0. From virtualization to cloud computing, ensuring application performance has become more complicated. This comprehensive handbook provides a state-of-the-market report on best practices to address the new application delivery challenges. Read Now Researchers' SSL offloader costs fraction of commercial hardware Off-the-shelf graphic processing units can perform SSL acceleration as fast as high-end commercial SSL hardware at a fraction of the cost, according to researchers in Korea and the U.S. Read More No joy for would-be baby shakers and drunk drivers Read More Man-in-the-Browser attacks target the enterprise With firewalls, antivirus and other security mechanisms protecting corporate networks, how do attackers manage to penetrate enterprise computer systems? Simply by exploiting the weakest link in the security chain. One of the newest methods is tunnelling in via employees' browsers using an attack known as "Man-in-the-Browser" (MitB). Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Catholic Health East Success Story Using CA Oblicore Guarantee™, CHE has been able to automate the process of SLA reporting, build a service catalog and capture reliable IT service delivery information. The solution pulls information from originating systems to populate reports, dashboards and SLA scorecards based on defined metrics. Learn More Most approve of hosting games on company gear, survey finds Only about a third of more than 1,000 respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players. Read More Critical NASA network was open to Internet attack Six NASA servers exposed to the Internet had critical vulnerabilities that could have endangered Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Hubble Telescope missions -- flaws that would have been found by a security oversight program the agency agreed to last year but hasn't yet implemented, according to a report by the agency's inspector general. Read More VIPRE maker explains false positive on Samsung laptops, apologizes The maker of the VIPRE anti-spyware tool is taking responsibility for a false positive that misidentified a legitimate Windows folder on Samsung laptops as a program that secretly logs keystrokes. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Wi-Fi Provides RX for Healthcare Challenges This paper looks at how healthcare providers are using wireless LANs creatively to improve patient care and to realize much-needed cost efficiencies. Read now! Comodo hacker claims another certificate authority The hacker who claimed credit for breaking into systems belonging to digital certificate vendor Comodo said he has compromised another certificate authority, along with two more Comodo partners, a move that could further undermine trust in the system used to secure websites on the Internet. Read More Companies pick and choose which data breaches to report One in 7 information technology companies have not reported data breaches or losses to outside government agencies, authorities or stockholders. Read More Restaurant chain to pay $110,000 to settle breach claims The Briar Group has agreed to settle claims that it failed to adequately protect credit card data of its customers. Read More BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants The personal information of 13,000 individuals who had filed compensation claims with BP after last years disastrous oil spill may have been potentially compromised after a laptop containing the data was lost by a BP employee. Read More Behind the curtain of a botnet business Researchers gain access to one of the world's largest spam botnets, and find it's an operation that as organized and crafty as any successful corporation Read More
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