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• Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and Their Pursuers

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  Product DescriptionOn every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creaturesthe name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950s, the term literally means the science of hidden animals. When the ...
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• ISAlliance to Testify for Senate Judiciary

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  From The Internet Security Alliance Media Alert: Internet Security Alliance President to Testify at U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), will testify tomorrow at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Terrorism and Homeland Security ...
  6 hours ago

• Botnets, Complacency and the UK Government

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 512
  Gadi Evron drew my attention in an article for Dark Reading to a piece in IT Pro by Asavin Wattanajantra. The piece quotes Dr. Steve Marsh, of the UKs Cabinet Office (the Office of Cyber Security, to be precise) as saying that botnet operators are interested in money-generating attacks on the private sector, not ...
  9 hours ago

• Increase Your Information Security IQ

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”. Stymied as to why they ...
  21 hours ago

• Fifteen More Smart Grid Privacy Concerns

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Rebecca Herold ( The Privacy Professor ) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI I’ve had about half a dozen folks ask me how things are going with the work I’m doing with the NIST Smart Grid privacy group , and if I could provide an update since my last couple of posts on the topic here and here . The ...
  21 hours ago

• 2010 Defense Authorization Act Spending

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest On October 28th President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (655 page PDF here ). After removing the Department of Energy allotment of $122 million it appears that the DoD is not gearing up in a major ...
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• Internet Security News: Week in Review

  
  HomeATM — Authority: 491
  Internet Security News: Week in Review Malware attacks surge, says Fortinet (from ComputerWorldUk at 14-11-2009) Fortinet, a network security provider and unified threat management (UTM) solutions specialist has observed the highest level of total malware detected in more than ...
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• Microsoft advisory for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote …

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 153
  SANS Internet Storm Center - A global cooperative cyber threat / internet security monitor and alert system. Featuring daily handler diaries with summarizing and analyzing new threats to networks and internet security events. See the original post here: Microsoft advisory for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
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• What Could Possibly Be Worse Than A Virus?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always ...
  3 days ago

• DLP is Short for Disturbing Lack of Process?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates Ted Ritter has suggested that we rename DLP a Disturbing Lack of Process … Indeed DLP is not a well-defined term – since so many vendors (Kaspersky anti-virus, McAfee anti-virus, Symantec anti-virus, Trend Micro Provilla, CA ...
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• HITECH Act and Protecting Health Privacy

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts September 23, 2009 marked a major milestone for patient rights. That is when the new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act took effect, requiring healthcare organizations to take more responsibility for protecting ...
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• Congressional Leak Spotlights P2P User Act

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way ...
  4 days ago

• Microsoft Threat Assessment & Modeling

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP Every organization has some form of Information Security Risk Assessment - some perform a formal risk assessment, others simply use their practical experience . Whatever method is chosen, it always helps to use a tool which will assist the organization in ...
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• Microsoft Security Updates - November 2009

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 153
  Very important security updates are available for Windows and Office . These should be promptly applied to protect from exploits and malicious code that could be reversed engineered in the near future Read the original post:  Microsoft Security Updates - November 2009
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• ISAlliance To Release Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  From The Internet Security Alliance Who: The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) What: The ISA will release a new cybersecurity report, which proposes frameworks for taking key issues in the Obama Administration’s “Cyberspace Policy Review” document to the next level, in an effort to achieve ...
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• Another Peek at New Things from ISC

  
  Wickedly Wonderful Creations — Authority: 118
  Here are a couple additional cards I made with my new stamps that were just released last Monday by ISC. The members of the design team were "challenged" to use this wonderful boat image side by side with itself to create a panorama ... pretty darn cool, eh? By itself or doubled up this is a really terrific image, ...
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• Report: Globalization of Malware Production

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst Traditionally, malware has tended to originate mainly from countries like Brazil and America, with other nations such as Korea and India joining them in the top 10 malware charts in recent years. However, October’s threat stats reveal that the level of malware ...
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• Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  Daniel Wallace , Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward How vendors, integrators and consultants can position themselves to support CISO’s with corporate social media adoption… In the past I have written articles and advised CISO’s on how social media technology can be used as a vehicle ...
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• Ten Common Identity Theft Myths Dispelled

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert The National Foundation for Credit Counselors , which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some ...
  6 days ago

• Four Pillars of Cyber Warfare: Intelligence

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics, and command. One premise is that cyber warfare is a component of the ongoing struggle between philosophies of politics, governance, and markets to be waged by opposing ...
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