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

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Latest News

North Carolina community college library users' data exposed

Sensitive data belonging to the library users at a number of North Carolina state-run community colleges may have been compromised when a server was hacked.
 

Heartland settles with American Express over breach

Heartland Payment Systems has settled its first lawsuit with a card brand over the 2008 data breach.
 

Twitter attributes outage to DNS records hack

Twitter blamed Thursday's outage on a compromise of its DNS records. Users trying to visit the microblogging site were greeted with a message that the "Iranian Cyber Army" had hacked Twitter, reports said. Twitter also experienced "timeline delays and missing Tweets," though its third-party applications remained functioning normally, according to its Status and company blog. The company said it was looking into the cause of the downtime and would provide more information soon. The site is now working properly. In August, the site was knocked offline for several hours due to a denial-of-service attack. — DK
 

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How one lost laptop can have a giant impact

One IT pro offers a fictional - but all too legitimate-sounding - account of a CEO losing his unencrypted laptop and the sobering aftermath that can ensue.
 

Managers of IT security technology are as important as the products

As organizations prepare their 2010 security budgets, executives must think about getting the right people in place to oversee the technology.
 

New report finds Adobe programs most at risk

Adobe's popular programs — Acrobat, Flash Player, Reader and Shockwave Player — top the list of the most vulnerable applications in 2009, according to a report released Wednesday by security firm Bit9. All four applications had vulnerabilities rated "high," which mean hackers could have executed arbitrary code. Apple QuickTime, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, RealPlayer, Sun Java and Trillian followed on the list, created from stats in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) vulnerability database. All apps on the list rely on the end-user, not an IT administrator, to patch. — DK
 

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How we test products

Check out this month's issue to see the other companies we picked. 

How we test products:

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

A call for papers is now open for the third annual SC World Congress in New York and the inaugural SC Congress Canada. Visit the home page of the SC World Congress and find (under "Key Links" at the right) how to be a presenter or speaker at these two events. Click on the "Call for Papers" links to learn more.

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July 28, 2011
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