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• Zeus Trojan Takes Aim at Cloud Payroll Services
• Four Tips for Teaching Your Staff About Social Engineering
•  Are there serious cyber threats that target medical devices
• When Will PCI SSC Stop the Mobile Payment Insanity?
• Chase Hit in ATM Skimming Attacks
• Apple Developing Fix For Flashback Malware
• SAIC Explains Insurance for Breach
• Social security numbers publicly available on nonprofit tax forms
• The Fight For the Internet Continues — Could CISPA be the Next SOPA?
• 4 Steps to Securing Mobile Devices and Apps in the Workplace
• Number of victims in state of Utah breach significantly rises
• Sophos Takes Down Partner Portal After Signs of Hacking
• LulzSec hacker reverses guilty plea for Sony Pictures attack
• Hackers target Medicaid claim forms in Utah
• Twitter sues five over spamming, providing automated tools
• Questions Abound On Size and Makeup of Flashback Botnet

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Is Global Payments the Only Breach?

Pump Up Your P@$$w0rd$

Real Questions about Huawei for US Rep. Frank Wolf

Active Zeus C&Cs Remain Following Microsoft Takedown

Flight check-in emails lead to Zeus infection

Facebook Users Targeted by Ice IX Malware in Credit Card Grab

Infographic: Infections from 25K Sites Hit 10M Victims in February

US Airways Spam Redirects to Blackhole, Zeus Infection

 Mozilla Adds Older Java Versions to Firefox Blocklist

ACLU finds widespread warrantless cell phone tracking by local police

Ten Takeaways from the Tilded Platform

FTC to Link Do-Not-Track and Big Data Concerns

The Technical Debt Bubble and Its Effect on IT Security

Check Point Fails to Renew Domain Name CheckPoint.Com

LulzSec Hacker Ryan Cleary Put Back in Jail for Emailing Sabu

Anonymous: We Don’t Agree with LulzSec Reborn

Cyber Criminals Top Secret Service Most Wanted List

Shackleford: What’s RIGHT with Infosec

The raid on your medical records 

Sensitive personal information on 800,000 California residents lost between IBM and state office

Rogers-Ruppersberger Cyber Bill Gains Momentum

The First Cyber Shot in a Chinese Jasmine Spring

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• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen victim of ID theft

• FTC releases proposed settlement order in RockYou breach; $250k fine for breaching COPPA

• Chris Aragon, partner in Carders Market, pleads guilty in massive ID theft/fraud scheme

• Malicious Exploits: Hitting the Internet Waves with CSRF Part 2

• Can DNS Attacks Threaten the Internet on a Large Scale?

• Here’s How Law Enforcement Cracks Your iPhone’s Security Code

• Facebook Has Self To Blame For Employer Privacy Mess

• Money Mules, Not Customers, The Real Victims of Bank Fraud

• Hackers turn credit report websites against consumers

• NSA Denies Warrantless Wiretaps Despite Evidence

• Huawei Symantec: Fear of Chinese Espionage Ends Venture

• CyberPatriot Announces National Championship Winners

• Healthcare Breach Tally: 409 Incidents

• PwC report highlights senior management complacency about security

• Apple Clamps Down, Begins to Reject Apps Looking for UDID Numbers

• Seven Problems with Cell Phone Forensics

• Installation of Vendor’s Patch Does Not Guarantee Security

• Study Finds China Censorship Of Social Media Is Real, Pervasive

• New TGLoader Android Malware Found in Alternative Markets

• MA: Property Management Firm to Pay $15,000 in Civil Penalties Following Data Breach – But Why?

• MilitarySingles.com hack exposes over 160,000 users’ information 

• Microsoft and Law Enforcement Hit Zeus Botnet Servers

• Hacktivists Surpass Organized Crime in Volume of Data Theft

• Open source code libraries seen as rife with vulnerabilities

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Can Health Care Orgs Maintain Trust With Electronic Records?

iOS JavaScript Bug Can Lead to Spoofed Sites

Facebook Warns Users About Timeline Adware

Incident Response and PCI Compliance

Public Key Infrastructure 1998 – 2012

Is a W-2 Considered PHI Under HIPAA?

Department of Defense Developing Cyberspace ‘Rules of Engagement’ Framework

8 Arrested in $4.5 Million Scheme

Key Components of a Social Media Policy

In Australia, secure your Wi-Fi — or face a visit from the police

NSA Chief: Cyber Becoming More Perilous

NSA Chief Denies Wired’s Domestic Spying Story (Fourteen Times) In Congressional Hearing

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

Some Thoughts on Sandboxes

Vulnerability Remediation: No More Traffic Signals

Wireless Security: Wi-Fi Hacking Burglars Get Busted

Hackers Target Social Media for Social Engineering Attacks

Experts Tell Senate: Government Networks Owned, Resistance Is Futile

Verizon: Hacktivists Steal Most Data In 2011

Six High-Risk Flaws Fixed in Google Chrome

Follow-up: Two men who stole bank info from Michaels customers headed to federal prison

Breach Leaves Thousands Of Kaiser Permanente Employees Checking Their Credit Report

Verizon: Hacktivists #1 Breach Threat

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• Paper Chase: The Huge Security Risks In Your File Room

• Pwned List Launches As A Breach Monitoring Service

• TRICARE Breach Victims Report Fraud

• NSA Chief: Cyber Becoming More Perilous

• Do people in security tweet too much?

• Changing of the Guard: A Perspective on the Changing CISO Role

• Assessment of Visual Voicemail Security

• Newly Compiled Driver Shows Duqu Authors Still At Work

• IT pros lack confidence in public cloud’s perimeter defenses

• Cost of data breaches outstripping inflation

• New twist in social engineering rogue AV

• GAO takes IRS to task – again – over information security lapses

• Russia government appoints Krutskikh as cybersecurity coordinator

• Researchers discover flaws in SSO that leave websites vulnerable

• Nearly Five Percent of All Smartphones Lost Every Year

• Russian Agencies Take Down Carberp Gang

• Governments Tip-Toe Toward the Cloud

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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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