December 22, 2009 — Click here to view this newsletter online.

Associate Sponsor —  SC Vendor Webcast

Unleashing your log power to do more with less

Date/time: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST
Click here to register for FREE

This webcast will cover what top organizations are doing to cut IT costs, drastically improve IT performance, monitor system activities, and meet ever more stringent security and compliance requirements - all with log data already being generated.

Sponsored by LogLogic

Latest News

Conficker worm variant kills security processes

March 06, 2009

Computer systems that are already infected by the Conficker worm are being pushed a new component that kills protective security processes.
 

DHS' National Cybersecurity Center director resigns

March 06, 2009

Rod Beckstrom, director of the National Cybersecurity Center, an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has resigned.
 

Obama appoints federal CIO

March 05, 2009

President Obama has appointed the first-ever federal chief information officer.
 

Background investigator settles with FTC over ID theft

March 05, 2009

An organization that sells consumer information, including names, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and credit histories, has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to properly screen potential customers, leading to the sale of at least 318 reports to ID thieves.
 

Principal Sponsor — SC eConference & Expo on PCI Compliance

From the comfort of your desk, you will be able to visit virtual booths and download valuable information, while listening to industry experts, like keynote speaker Steven Peltzman, of The Museum of Modern Art, along with a panel including Troy Leach, of PCI Security Standards Council, and Doug Fowler of Bank of America.

Click here to register for free

Botnet master sentenced to jail

March 05, 2009

A hacker who went by the alias "acidstorm" was sentenced to a prison term of four years in a Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday. John Schiefer, 27, had been charged under the Federal Wiretap Act and pleaded guilty last April to accessing hundreds of thousands of computers to set up botnets and fraudulently invade thousands of bank accounts. — CAM
 

Firefox update addresses multiple security issues

March 05, 2009

Mozilla on Wednesday issued Firefox 3.0.7, which fixes multiple security issues that could potentially enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or spoof the location bar, according to an advisory from US-CERT Thursday.
 

Are you addicted to pen testing?

Nicholas Arvanitis, solutions architect, security, Dimension Data March 05, 2009

Be wary of those who use pen tests as a means of driving the sale of technologies, says Nicholas Arvanitis.
 

Gartner: Data breaches hit 7.5 percent of all U.S. adults

March 04, 2009

Financial fraud last year caused 7.5 percent of all adults in the United States to lose money, largely because of data breaches.
 

Associate Sponsor —  SC Vendor Webcast

Unleashing your log power to do more with less

Date/time: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST
Click here to register for FREE

This webcast will cover what top organizations are doing to cut IT costs, drastically improve IT performance, monitor system activities, and meet ever more stringent security and compliance requirements - all with log data already being generated.

Sponsored by LogLogic
WHITE PAPER LIBRARY






SC Events Calendar

TODAY
SC Webcast: Securing, controlling and auditing critical databases

June 21, 2011
SC eConference: Auditing and compliance

July 28, 2011
SC eConference: Securing the cloud

Aug. 25, 2011
SC eSymposium: Social networking - Threats and solutions


Join us on Facebook!

Follow us on Twitter! 





Advertise
For details on exclusive sponsorship of The SC Magazine Newswire, please send a message to Mike Shemesh

Subscribe
If you were sent this by a colleague and wish to subscribe to The SC Magazine Newswire, please click here.

Unsubscribe
To unsubscribe from The SC Magazine Newswire click here.
To manage your entire SC Magazine profile login to your account.

You are subscribed as: %%EMAIL%%

To contact Haymarket Media for general questions or unsubscribe problems, please e-mail newslettersupport@haymarketmedia.com

All SC Magazine newsletters are sent from the domain "email.scmagazineus.com". When configuring e-mail or spam
filter rules, please use this domain name.

Haymarket Media Inc
114 West 26th St 4th floor
New York, NY 10001
© 2012 Haymarket Media Inc.