CyberMonday, November 28, 2011 – Be Prepared

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The term “Cyber Monday” refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, "Cyber Monday" symbolizes a busy day for online retailers.

“Guy Fawkes Virus” May Be The Cause for Offensive Facebook Images

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Twenty-Fours hours later, the problem continues to be an issue for Facebook users as they have gone to Twitter and Google+ to complain about the embarrassment and frustration of these images being posted under their profile. It seems Facebook is still having problems rectifying the matter and we have not seen much on the Facebook security page to update users on the matter.

CISO Summit – The Platform to Congregate, Connect and Interact

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s Your Organization Ready for the Threats & Challenges Ahead? Stay ahead of attackers. Arrive with questions and concerns and leave armed with innovative ideas, out of the box solutions and a group of new industry colleagues. The EC-Council CISO Executive Summit provides a much-needed platform for IS leaders to discuss the challenges the industry is facing and develop guidance for information security executive leaders to develop a new way of thinking to ensure your success in protecting organizations.

Security News: US report blasts China, Russia for cybercrime; Duqu Malware: Still No Patch; MIT server hijacked in drive-by download campaign

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Cyberattacks by Chinese and Russian intelligence services, as well corporate hackers in those countries, have swallowed up large amounts of high-tech American research and development data, and that stolen information has helped build their economies, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded. The recently discovered Duqu malware can exploit a zero-day Windows kernel vulnerability, which would help it to infect PCs and spread without being detected. A server belonging to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was commandeered by hackers who used it to launch attacks against other websites as part of a larger drive-by download campaign, according to antivirus vendor BitDefender.

USAJobs.gov 3.0 Not Off to a Good Start – Availabilty Issues

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On October 11, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) unveiled its much-anticipated and newly designed USAJobs.gov 3.0 federal job search website which had been in development for over a year. The new launching of the website has been introduced with many negative complaints from frustrated users.

Keynote Announced: Cybersecurity Initiatives and Policies

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Register today for this FREE solutions seminar to discuss cybersecurity policy developments, the latest technology initiatives and best practices for managing access to electronic information.

SANS AppSec Summit 2012 Call For Papers

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We're happy to announce that the sixth annual SANS AppSec Summit will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 30 - May 1, 2012. The theme for this conference is "Application Security at Scale".

Cyber Security Summit

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Cyber security features prominently in the mainstream media with news stories regularly getting in front of end users and boardrooms alike. The information security and risk market has responded with a range of solutions to tackle these issues and to bring comfort to business leaders. Engage live with IT security experts at this online event to learn about the latest threats to your business, how to effectively manage breaches and how to safeguard your organization from cybercriminals all over the world.

October Issue of BSD Magazine is Out!

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I encourage you to have a look at the October issue: Inevitability of IPv6. You will definitely find there some interesting content. Start to read immediately because the November issue is coming soon!

What’s New in Nexpose 5.0: The Next Generation in Vulnerability Management

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Organizations across all industries and government agencies (at both the federal and state level) are struggling to mitigate constant cyber threats and comply with legislative or regulatory mandates. That’s nothing new in today’s information security landscape. What is new is that the new release of Rapid7 Nexpose provides a security risk intelligence solution that represents a paradigm shift in vulnerability management solutions.