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U.S. Senators Introduce ‘Deter Cyber Theft Act’ to Help Protect Trade Secrets
— A bi-partisan group of Senators introduced a new bill to fight cyber-espionage and intellectual property theft by foreign countries. — The proposed “Deter Cyber Theft Act” aims to block products …
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Google Implements DNSSEC Validation for Public DNS
— Google on Tuesday announced that it now fully supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) validation on its Google Public DNS resolvers. — Previously, the search giant accepted and forwarded DNSSEC-formatted messages but didn't actually perform validation.
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Linux Rootkit Found Launching iFrame Injection Attacks
— Last week, someone posted a module to the Full Disclosure mailing list, which turned out to be a rootkit for Linux. Experts examined it, and concluded that if anything, it's a unique piece of malware, in addition to it being a credible risk to LAMPP deployments.
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Tech Giants Form Cyber Security Research Alliance
— An assembly of tech giants including AMD, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin, and RSA, has come together to form the “Cyber Security Research Alliance”, a consortium that will focus on the “grand challenges” for cyber security and next generation technologies.
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Russia Unveils Secure “Almost Android” Tablet To Keep Data Away From Google
— It seems that Russia's defense ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.
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Apple Yanks Privacy App From The App Store
— Apple Pulls Bitdefender's ‘Clueful’ Privacy App From The App Store — Back in May of this year, Internet security firm Bitdefender launched an App and service designed to help iOS users get a grip on what the apps installed on their mobile devices may be up to.
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Microsoft Certificate Was Used to Sign “Flame” Malware
— Microsoft: Techniques Used By Flame Could Be Used By Less Sophisticated Attackers to Launch Widespread Attacks — On Sunday, Microsoft reached out to customers and notified the public that it had discovered unauthorized digital certificates that …
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Symantec Confirms Hackers Accessed Source Code of Two Enterprise Security Products
— On Thursday evening, SecurityWeek and other news outlets reported on news that hackers claimed to have accessed the source code to an unspecified version of Symantec's Norton Antivirus product.
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).