February, 2009:

• Banking ID theft reaching epidemic proportions
• PCI council offering "milestones" for compliance
• Sensitive laptop stolen from a Colorado school district
• Spoofed Delta Airlines emails contain trojan
• Gone is the era of yes/no questions
• ID theft tops FTC list
• Obama's budget proposal increases spending for cybersecurity
• Netezza buys Tizor
• Time Warner confirms DDoS
• Crooks use "trendy" tactic to poison Google search results
• NASA hacker loses again
• Waledac malware adds geolocation
• Vista SP2 RC now available
• Microsoft fixes problem in disabling AutoRun
• Google Talk users hit by phishers
• Sensitive tape missing from Arkansas DIS
• Safari 4 focuses on security
• Adobe fixes critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player
• Comprehensive health care security with ISO 27001
• Insider data theft exacerbated by economic crisis
• Infosec: Big federal challenge
• Zero-day Microsoft Excel vulnerability reported
• Convenience or security?
• Navigating New Data Security Mandates
• Federal cybersecurity coalition releases security guidelines
• Report: Privacy issues plague cloud computing
• Visa confirms another payment processor breach
• Unofficial fix for PDF flaw
• New Conficker variant emerges
• Top five highlights of Black Hat D.C.
• Microsoft says password stealers pose biggest threat
• Researchers expect widespread exploit of Adobe PDF flaw
• Hackers access sensitive UF systems again
• Senate report calls for new U.S. cybersecurity effort
• Data protection lawyer appointed to lead DHS privacy efforts
• New Symbian mobile malware in the wild
• Government travel site hacked, remains shuttered
• Clients of Albuquerque food bank at risk for ID theft
• Security budgets
• Another vendor threat
• New Sality variant contains moneymaking twist
• CVS to pay $2.25 million to settle HIPAA violation
• BNY settles with Connecticut
• Web filtering evolves to meet changing threats
• Protest by Facebook users alters use policy
• Unleashing your log power to do more with less
• SF admin: My security job
• New Internet Explorer exploit discovered in the wild
• February 17, 2009: The Conficker coalition
• Hacker accesses Wyndham Hotels' computer systems
• Government computers under attack
• Trustwave acquires NAC vendor Mirage Networks
• Hacks are going to happen -- the key is lessening the blow
• BitDefender hit again
• Next generation access management
• NetForensics buys High Tower
• Hacker accesses University of Alabama servers
• Web 2.0: Security threat to your company?
• First arrests made in Heartland data breach case
• Apple issues first security update of year
• No Kaspersky compromise
• Microsoft leads collaboration to subdue Conficker botnet
• Key to the vault: Stock Yards Bank & Trust and Imprivata
• FTC revises online privacy guidelines
• Massachusetts data security law compliance extended
• Los Alamos computers go missing
• GRC: In 2009 it’s less about compliance and more about risk
• New encryption specification
• F-Secure suffers attack
• Regulations can provide much-needed relief for security professionals
• BlackBerry security hole patched
• Medical data leakage rampant on P2P networks
• Virulent strain of Virut virus apears in the wild
• Please stay tuned for the next SC Magazine Digital Download webcast coming up.
• Srizbi detection added
• Possible data breach at Parkland Memorial Hospital
• Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes "critical" flaws in Exchange, IE
• RIM wins battle for cryptography company Certicom
• Obama orders 60-day cybersecurity review
• FAA systems breached
• The age of heuristics
• StillSecure, ProtectPoint unite
• Federal Aviation Administration employees breached
• Waledac worm sends no love to Valentine's Day spam victims
• Kaspersky regrets hack but determines no data was leaked
• Businesses detecting ID fraud faster, absorbing more costs
• Cyberczar in offing
• Please stay tuned for the next SC Magazine vendor webcast...
• Don't blame the employees for peeping: Organizations are at fault for poor access governance
• Data breach leads to identity theft for employees
• GFi appoints three industry veterans
• ESET signs on with InQuira
• Symark International appoints Mutch as chief executive officer
• Blue Coat Systems and Proofpoint partner
• Triumfant names John Stabb senior vice president of sales
• Microsoft and RSA team up
• Imperva teams with ArcSight
• Window Snyder leaves Mozilla
• Dick Hardt joins Microsoft
• No phishing allowed
• White-hat hacker to show way to clone passport card data
• Geeks.com settles with FTC
• IRS phishing scam
• Web forum site still down
• NIST releases draft guidelines for FISMA compliance
• Letters
• A giant step for business security
• Facebook privacy disconnect?
• Document security: Minding your documents
• Endpoint security: From chaos to clarity
• Security needs a governing body
• Encryption can help build trust
• Drive-by pharming
• Toeing the lifeline: Philips Healthcare and Agiliance
• Security capital: Funding & Innovation
• State of defense: Anti-virus lives!
• Database security: Protecting the crown jewels
• Deloitte: Firms lack confidence they can deter internal attacks
• Four Microsoft fixes planned for Patch Tuesday
• Removing admin rights can stem Microsoft exploits
• Seats open on PCI council
• Busting bots: Defending against botnets
• Was Scott McNealy right?
• There is nothing technically wrong with PCI
• Guide goes online
• A call to revamp HIPAA
• Intruders put virus on government security contractor network
• Georgia state contractor burglarized
• Free Oracle database scanner
• New style of DNS amplification can yield powerful DDoS attacks
• Mozilla patches Firefox
• Research In Motion outbids VeriSign for Certicom
• Huge hacker payoff
• To Facebook or not to Facebook?
• IBM: Unpatched applications threaten users
• If we're going to let Google take over the world, we have to be prepared
• February 2, 2009: Fannie Mae admin hacker
• Google Video searches lead to malicious site
• Annual study reveals cost of a data breach keeps climbing
• Q&A with Bobby Dominguez
• Fannie Mae innocence plea
• The SC Magazine Awards Blog
• Google flags legit sites as bad