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- 16 October 2013
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News: Oracle plugs severe security holes that put systems at hijack risk
Oracle fixed on Tuesday 127 security issues in Java, its database and other products, patching some flaws that could let attackers take over systems.
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News: Cyber crime costs Australians $1.06 billion
Cyber crime over the past 12 months has affected five million Australians and cost them $1.06 billion.
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News: Security firm releases tool to audit SAP's HANA
A new tool from security vendor Onapsis aims to secure SAP's in-memory database HANA, the German company's fastest-growing data processing product.
- 15 October 2013
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News: ForeScout technology encourages security management info sharing
ForeScout Technologies Tuesday introduced technology that allows other security vendors as well as third parties such as systems integrators to share monitoring and security-related information directly with ForeScout's CounterAct network-access control product.
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News: Calif. governor vetoes email privacy legislation for third time
For the third year in a row, California Gov. Jerry Brown has killed a bill that would have required state law enforcement authorities to get a warrant to search email and other electronic communications of criminal suspects.
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News: New Snowden revelation: NSA collects millions of email and chat address books
Your online address books are probably being accessed by the government. But you probably kinda knew that anyway.
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News: Supreme Court shouldn't review NSA spying case, US gov't says
A privacy group lacks legal standing to challenge a U.S. National Security Agency data collection program, and the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't have jurisdiction to grant the group's request for it to review the program's legality, lawyers for President Barack Obama's administration have argued.
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News: How to enable Yahoo Mail's (soon to be default) SSL encryption today
The revamped Yahoo Mail sure is pretty, but from a security perspective the popular service has a pretty ugly security flaw: It doesn't encrypt your email sessions. But that will soon change. (Finally!) Yahoo plans to roll out default SSL connections to all email accounts beginning January 8, 2014, the company announced Monday.
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News: Lavabit to reopen for 5 days to let users download lost emails
Secure email provider Lavabit is coming back from the dead for a brief time to give users a chance to recover their data, after abruptly shutting its doors in August to protest what the company considered intrusive data requests from the U.S. government.
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News: Yahoo to encrypt webmail sessions by default starting January
Yahoo will start encrypting the webmail sessions of its users in early 2014 by making HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) standard for all Yahoo Mail connections.
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News: Insider threats and how they can be mitigated
Any employee with access to sensitive data is a potential threat, whether they know it or not. Even if they don't have malicious intentions, the inherent nature of their privilege is what makes them so dangerous.
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News: Experts recommend safeguards with Chrome personal data store
Google Chrome users should take extra precautions when using the browser to type personal data, such as credit card numbers, into website forms, experts say.
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News: Changeable default passwords are not seen as vulnerabilities by ICS-CERT, but should they be?
While responding to a vulnerability report submitted in April, ICS-CERT told a researcher that documented, changeable default passwords are not vulnerabilities. But given the risk behind default passwords and the focus on critical infrastructure security, shouldn't such things be considered an issue?
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News: What the Internet of Things means for security
You've probably been hearing a lot lately about the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT (see: "The IoT: A Primer" at the end of this piece), while still in the early stages of development, is slowly making its way into the mainstream as more objects become connected via technology such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and the iniquitousness of the Internet.
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News: Security vendor admits mistake in website take down
Rapid7 has acknowledged that it waited too long to take the security actions needed to prevent a pro-Palestine hacking group from taking down two of its websites by sending a fax to the sites' registrar.
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News: First Look: NetCitadel threat management platform in beta site
Detecting and stopping stealthy malware designed to steal sensitive information means moving fast. Start-up NetCitadel wants to put its new Threat Management Platform in the middle of the security-response game with many of the other players there now -- sandboxing, firewalling, and other technologies a company may use in order to provide a kind of orchestration and decision-making point.
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News: Security to go: Three tips to keep your mobile data safe
Keeping your mobile gear secure while you're zipping across the grid is tricky business. Laptops and tablets--veritable gold mines of personal information--are popular targets for thieves. Law enforcement officials, meanwhile, could confiscate your smartphone and then examine the data--merely as a result of a routine traffic stop.
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News: Lavabit briefly allowing users to recover their data
Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August are being temporarily allowed to change their passwords and download copies of their data.
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News: Washington Post: NSA collects address books to map human relationships
The U.S. National Security Agency is collecting online address books from Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, Gmail and other providers in order to map human relationships, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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News: Salesforce delivers Identity to simplify herding of apps
Salesforce.com has delivered an identity product designed to let enterprises consolidate user authentication and application access control on a single tool.
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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 review: A compact Ultrabook laptop and tablet with compromises
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