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Twitter to establish information security program

Social networking service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their …

Man indicted for hacking and threatening the Vice President

A 45-year-old Blaine, Minnesota man has been indicted in federal court in the District of Minnesota for hacking into his neighbor’s wireless Internet system and …

Wireshark in the large enterprise

Hansang Bae leads the Network/Application Performance Engineering Team with direct responsibility for Packet Capture Infrastructure at Citi. In the very in-depth video below, …

IT pros expect network threats to increase as budgets decline

Of the 100-plus netForensics survey respondents, 85% believe their organization’s security environment will grow more complex over the next 24 months, leading to …

How consumers influence data loss and breaches

Cisco announced the results of a survey exploring the security implications of social networking and the use of personal devices in the enterprise. One of the most striking …

Rogue software details: Sysinternals Antivirus

Sysinternals Antivirus is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …

New book: Network Flow Analysis

Network flow analysis is the art of studying high volume network traffic. Rather than capture every single packet, flow analysis allows network administrators to selectively …

WhiteHat Sentinel: SaaS website vulnerability management

WhiteHat Security updated WhiteHat Sentinel, its software-as-a-service (SaaS) website vulnerability management offering, including new User and Role Management options, …

Firefox 3.6.4 fixes several security issues

Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.4 that fixes several security issues as well as stability issues. User tracking across sites using Math.random() Security researcher Amit Klein …

Secure social media management

Cyveillance announced the availability of Secure Social Media Management, which provides organizations with professional review and consultation of social media policies and …

Basic TCP/IP analysis

Hansang Bae leads the Network/Application Performance Engineering Team with direct responsibility for Packet Capture Infrastructure at Citi. In the video below he discusses …

Teens share alarming amounts of personal info online

McAfee released “The Secret Life of Teens,” a survey that surveyed 955 U.S. 13-17 year olds (including 593 teens ages 13-15 and 362 teens aged 16-17) and reveals …

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