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

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Latest News

New malware emerges for jailbroken iPhones

November 23, 2009

iBotnet.A attempts to steal online banking credentials and is capable of spreading across a network and hijacking the iPhone and iPod Touch for use in a botnet. However, experts do not perceive the threat to be widespread.
 

Proof-of-concept for new IE flaw forebodes web danger

November 23, 2009

A new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer is expected to yield a fully functioning exploit that could execute code on victim machines.
 

Report: Cyberattacks against the U.S. "rising sharply"

November 20, 2009

During just the first half 2009, there were 43, 785 cyberattack incidents against the DoD, a new report states. If this volume is maintained for the rest of the year, it will represent a 60 percent increase over 2008.
 

Trio indicted in connection with Comcast.net hijacking

November 20, 2009

Three individuals have been charged with compromising Comcast.net's DNS records to divert customer traffic to a prank website.
 

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House committee passes cyber R&D, standards bill

November 19, 2009

The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009, passed Wednesday by the House Committee on Science and Technology, would support cybersecurity research and development and advance technical standards.
 

Federal P2P ban weighed

November 19, 2009

New legislation introduced in the U.S. House on Tuesday would restrict the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software across the federal government. The Secure Federal File Sharing Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, comes after numerous sensitive government documents were found on P2P networks, including blueprints for President Obama's helicopter, Marine One. — AM
 

Gov't executives cite unstructured data as top concern

November 18, 2009

Seventy-nine percent of federal government IT executives surveyed recently said unstructured data increases the security risk within their organization.
 

Windows 7 likely to come into cross-hairs of attackers

November 19, 2009

Cyberattackers will target Windows 7 and spam volumes will spike next year, according to a recently released Symantec report covering internet security trends.
 

Principal Sponsor — NetIQ

Conquering Data Protection Challenges

Click here to register for this free on demand webcast.

Join Geoff Webb, senior manager of product marketing, NetIQ, and featured guest John Kindervag, senior analyst, Forrester Research for a web seminar on "Conquering Data Protection Challenges." You'll learn how the pressures to secure sensitive information are growing evermore acute, how the penalties associated with a breach can be very damaging, and how to begin to manage and secure access to your data wherever it resides. Sponsored by NetIQ

How we test products

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Call for Papers — SC World Congress New York & SC Congress Canada

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