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• Report: Globalization of Malware Production

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  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: 472
  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: 472
  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 ...
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• HIPAA and Video Surveillance of Surgery

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Rebecca Herold ( The Privacy Professor ) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Over the years there have been many… too many…instances where doctors have performed the wrong types of surgeries on patients, and even the wrong surgeries on completely wrong patients… There was a very interesting, and ...
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• Federal Statutes Aid Trade Secret Prosecution

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil The protection of trade secrets through litigation has generally been limited to civil lawsuits, typically filed under state law statutory or common law provisions. This is true even though federal and state statutes have provided criminal penalties ...
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• Symantec CEO Optimistic About IT Spending

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Cara Garretson , Veteran Business and Technology Journalist Security giant Symantec ( SYMC ) announced second fiscal quarter results that were down 3 percent compared to the same period a year ago, but up slightly from the last quarter of this year, offering some evidence that IT spending is on the ...
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• Social Media Scams Plague Networks

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert For the past year, I’ve been screaming about the trouble with social media as it relates to identity theft, brand hijacking, privacy issues, and the opportunity social media creates for criminals to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false ...
  5 days ago

• How to shop safely online

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Some of the best deals can be found online but you need to make sure your payment is safe.
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• Two Vulnerability Scanning Tools Evaluated

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP We have mentioned our favorite vulnerability scanning tools before . But a lot of time has passed since, so it is time to put these tools against each other and evaluate the quality of the results received when scanning the same target. The Test Environment ...
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• Everyday Life and the Expectation of Privacy

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified Bob Blakley from The Burton Group recently posted a great response to Andrea DiMaio of Gartner Group regarding privacy. There are lots of great viewpoints expressed in Bob’s blog and comments, but I’d like to raise a perspective on privacy that is ...
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• Top Ten Email Related Disasters of 2009

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  BY Mel Duvall , Chief Content Officer at CIOZone Forget about vampires, ghouls and zombies. You were much more likely to receive a fright this year from something lurking in your e-mail. Just in time for Halloween, security software vendor Proofpoint has come up with a list of the Top 10 Terrifying E-mail ...
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• Report: Data Breaches Hike Fraud Risk 400%

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Because data breaches have become such commonplace incidents, there is concern that people have become desensitized to the potential harm they face upon receiving a notification letter from an organization informing them that sensitive information has been ...
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• Punishment For Cyber Crime – Life Imprisonment, Facebook Makes Millions In Compensation

  
  WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India — Authority: 556
  At WATBlog, we’ve commented quite a few times on cyber crime and how the fast changing face of the Internet has a lost of scope for misuse. A while back, we covered the amendments made to the IT Act . While the post was focused on the changes and how it could affect the privacy of the individual, there are ...
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• Safety Concerns About Internet Banking

  
  The Money Stop — Authority: 131
  How safe do you feel when doing your banking online? Most people are confident in the security measures the banks have in place, but in spite of the cases of online fraud almost doubled in 2008 and experts expect this percentage to rise in the coming years. Hackers can gain access to the files on [...]
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• ScareWare Infects Tens of Millions Yearly

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst For some time, cyber-criminals have been writing and distributing scareware as part of their arsenal in the battle to take control of our computers. Put simply, scareware programs are designed to frighten people into running malicious software by popping up when ...
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• Sidekick Goof Shows Cloud Computing Risks

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil In a prior post , I wrote regarding both the promise of cloud computing, or software as a service, and the very real potential legal issues and conundrums faced by businesses considering moving some or all of their IT services and data to the ...
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• Protecting Your Privacy After You Die

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Rebecca Herold ( The Privacy Professor ) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Some time ago, I read a news report about a family who wanted to obtain the email messages of their son who had been killed in Iraq. Wow.  I hadn’t thought about all my electronic virtual possessions, such as emails and files. ...
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• Major Security Hole in Time Warner Routers

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Cara Garretson , Veteran Business and Technology Journalist Customers of Time Warner Cable’s Internet service using the company-supplied cable modem/wireless router box could easily have their home networks infiltrated and taken over by hackers, a blogger reports. The security hole was found by ...
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• The High Cost of HIPAA Privacy Violations

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates Back in February 2009 I noted that CVS Caremark Corp. had agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a federal investigation into allegations that it violated HIPAA privacy regulations when pharmacy employees threw items such as pill bottles ...
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• Internal Clouds Are More Than Just VMware

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Dwayne Melancon , Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development I was just reading a NetworkWorld article called Internal Clouds are More Than Just Virtualization and it’s got some pretty good data (and perspective) about how companies view internal clouds. One interesting (but not so surprising) ...
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