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Have you seen how much money James Cameron spent on his new movie?
It’s true that James Cameron’s movies have been huge investments (Avatar cost a reported $300 million) – but you should avoid email invitations to see the amazing graphics in his new movie for 2...
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Free Costco Gift Card for all Facebook users? Scam spreads quickly
It would cost Costco $80 billion to give everyone on Facebook a $100 gift card. Do you still think the link can be trusted, or have you twigged that it's just another Facebook survey scam?
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Why are False Positives a Costly Headache for Enterprises?
Hello World! I’ve recently joined Veracode as a product marketing manager. One of my responsibilities to respond to customer questions about Veracode, what we do and why we do it. So I thought it would...
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Career Advice Tuesday- ” Help! New CISO Has A Bad Reputation”
Dear Infosecleaders: About three weeks ago, I accepted a new position with a company, where I am going to be reporting to a new CISO. During the interview process I was told by the CISO that my...
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December 2011 Patch Tuesday Security Briefing
Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the December 2011 Patch Tuesday releases.
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What life tasks do you do online?
I am giving a talk to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce this Thursday on Living Securely in a Digital World. As I've started preparing my presentation I've come to realize that almost everything we do or...
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Some Holiday Cheer from Microsoft
Think the 12 Days of Christmas jingle: On this Patch Tuesday before Christmas ….. Microsoft Gave to me ….. 3 critical patches… 10 important ones…and a patch for the Duqu vulnerability… We initially...
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rrhunter: Detecting Rogue IPv6 Routers
It’s a fact: Pv6 deployments are on the raise. We are close to the end of 2011 and this year was really some kind of a kick-off year to deploy the new protocol or to make live tests. I won’t come back...
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How [not] being Green Makes You Stink at Security: Build Printable Spreadsheets
This is Part Three in a series titled "How Being Green Makes You Stink at Security." Be sure to check out the two previous posts (One, Two) for more information about how to better tell your story as a...
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Cybercrime and Mobile Finance: Like Flies to Honey
Mobile wallet technology has once again become a hot topic in recent days, particularly around the potential security considerations related to these apps. The unavoidable truth is that whenever...
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December 2011 Patch Tuesday
This month, we have 13 Security Bulletins instead of the expected 14, bringing us up to 99 bulletins this year. The original anticipated 14th bulletin was for the BEAST attack, but did not make it in...
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How young is too young for Facebook and Gmail?
Should there be a minimum age before you can use social networks or have a web email account? Under Google and Facebook's terms of services, you have to be at least 13 years old. However, plenty of...
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Analyzing the Poneman study on privileged users: 3 steps to build your...
You trust your employees and administrators with the most critical technical functions in your organization - but they're only human. Curiosity gets the best of everyone eventually, and when it does...
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[Honeypot Alert] Awstats Command Injection Scanning Detected
Issue Detected Our daily web honeypot analysis has detected an increase in scanning looking for command injection flaws in the Awstats package. Here are example attacks from the logs: GET...
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Citigroup’s New Federal Lobby Spend Includes Cyber Security
WASHINGTON – Citigroup Inc. spent $1.18 million to lobby the federal government on new rules that affect its ability to trade complex Wall Street securities, cyber security, new housing rules and...
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Patch Tuesday analysis for December 2011
As always on the second Tuesday of the month Microsoft and Adobe release their monthly security bulletins. This month Microsoft has released 13 bulletins, although they had originally announced there...
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Security Updates for Microsoft Windows, Java
Microsoft today issued software updates to patch at least 19 security holes in Windows, including three flaws that earned the company’s most serious “critical” rating. Separately, Oracle released a...
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$500 per flaw @ Facebook
Did you know Zuckerberg launched a program in July for security researchers, a program that rewards each vulnerability found with a value that, typically, is about $500 per flaw? You didn't know?...
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