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• Mobile devices open corporate floodgates to malware

• Schneier reveals three biggest information security risks in 2012

• Trust in our Digital World is in Jeopardy

• 2012 : Expect DDoS botnets to be smaller, more effective and more of them!

• Debate Over Active Defense and Hacking Back Crops Up at RSA

• Fake Chat Screen Malware Hijacks Banking Customers

• The Most Outrageous Job Interview Mistakes

• Android Malware Being Distributed via Facebook

• Anonyomous Hackers Hit Prison Management Company

• Roland Corporation Hacked

• Yellow Pages Hacked by Mad HackerZ Team

• Infragard Hit Again by Anonymous Hackers

• Most organizations lack adequate oversight of SSL certificates. Is your company one of them?

• IBM Expands QRadar to Deliver Security Intelligence

• An 8-Word Social Media Policy

• Demanding Stronger Card Security

• Bruce Schneier on Liars and Outliers

• Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

• Careless management of crucial security instruments

• Eleventh Circuit Finds Fifth Amendment Right Against Self Incrimination Protects Against Being Forced to Decrypt Hard Drive Contents

• Agari expands use of DMARC email security standard through new program

• Add the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to any list of law enforcement agencies attacked by Anonymous or its affiliates.

• Wikileaks Dumps First of 5 Million Stratfor E-Mails

• A Checklist for a Move to the Cloud

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Security Breaches, Security News & More (week ending 2-17-12)

• Anonymous Plans To Take Down The Internet: 
• Low-Tech Fraud Targets Banks, CUs
• 4 Crime Rings to Watch
• NC: Online security breach hits Charlotte college campus, officials warn
• Auditor IV: The Card Data Breach
• Central Connecticut State University server infected with Z-Bot; over 18,000 notified of incident
• Best Practices to Prevent Document Leaks
• Lessons from the Nortel Networks Breach
• The Truth Behind Data Breaches
• What You Need to Know About the RSA Key Research
• Court Orders Defendant to Decrypt Her Computer
• Coping With a Lost Laptop
• The 15 worst data security breaches of the 21st Century
• Romanian police arrest alleged hacker in Pentagon, NASA breaches
• Analysing the cyber scam that tried to fool an infosec professional’s wife
• Profiling Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
• Are Self-Signed SSL Certificates As Insecure As They Say?
• Twitter Admits Storing IPhone Contact Data
• Disclosures: How Much Sharing is Too Much?
• Did A Decade-Long Hack Trigger Nortel’s Demise?
• Weak RSA Keys Plague Embedded Devices, But Experts Caution Against Panic

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Breaches, Cyber Crime & Security News Highlights

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Cybersecurity Act of 2012 Introduced Without Emergency Presidential Powers Provisions

Anonymous-Linked Attacks Hit US Stock Exchanges

Security practitioners weigh in on the 15 worst data security breaches in recent memory.

Republican senators want to put the brakes on cybersecurity bill

Audit reveals Maryland inmates had access to social security numbers

Local government discloses employee social security numbers

Offer to ‘test’ iPhone 5 is a scam

The escalating cost of US cybersecurity plans

The rise of information stealers and pay-per-install malware

Malware Network Threats Rising, How to Defend Yourself

Senators Unveil Cybersecurity Bill to Empower Homeland Security

Mozilla wants CAs to stop issuing and revoke MITM certificates

Horde FTP server hacked, files modified to include backdoor

Gap in patch priorities vs cybercriminal targets

Cyber-Spies Intercepted Sensitive Files, Emails From Nortel: Report

Annual Breach Reporting Deadline Looms

Security Falling Short When It Comes To Dealing With Growing Cyber Attacks

U.S. Commerce Department Infected with Malware

Alabama and Texas law enforcement sites fall to hackers

7 Steps to Building a Security Program

78% of organizations that Trustwave investigated had no firewalls at all Adobe’s Security Chief Talks About Driving Up The Cost of Exploits

Symantec Verifies Stolen Source Code Posted By Anonymous is “Legitimate”

 

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Breaches & Information Security News

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Ernst & Young loses 401k information of bank employees

Food and beverage industry has unsavory history of data breaches

Disaster Recovery is health industry’s biggest headache

2011 review: CNI targetted, spam down, botnets up

Attackers Using Fake Google Analytics Code to Redirect Users to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Role of Ethics in IT Security

Data Loss Doesn’t Always Mean Getting Hacked

Hackers Infect WordPress Web Sites

VeriSign Hacked – But Why?

Number of patient record data breaches nearly doubled last year

Why Infosec Forced Me to Get an MBA

The Most Technologically Secure Super Bowl Ever

Acts of Terrorism vs. Cyber Threats: New Offense Scenarios

How to Win Friends and Steal Their Facebook Accounts

How To Spot A Fake Facebook Friend Profile

New Guidance on Payments Processing

Healthcare Breaches: Behind the Numbers

Verisign Breached Several Times in 2010

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