Congress withdraws SOPA and PIPA

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Lawmakers on Friday indefinitely postponed anti-piracy legislation that pits Hollywood against Silicon Valley, two days after major Internet companies staged an online protest by blacking out parts of prominent websites. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid postponed a showdown vote in his chamber on the Protect Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA for short, that had been scheduled for January 24.

Carberp Malware is Back in a New Form to Target Facebook users

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"Carberp replaces any Facebook page the user navigates to with a fake page notifying the victim that his/her Facebook account is 'temporarily locked,'" says Trusteer CTO Amit Klein in his blog. "The page asks the user for their first name, last name, email, date of birth, password and a Ukash 20 euro [approximately $25 US] voucher number to 'confirm verification' of their identity and unlock the account.

Upcoming SANS 2012 (Orlando) Information Security Training Event

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SANS 2012 (March 23-30, 2012) is fast approaching! More than 35 courses are offered, all taught by our top-rated instructors who are the best at ensuring you learn the material and can apply it immediately when you return to your office. Choose from audit, IT legal, security management, software and web app developer, forensics, computer security training, and more.

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Security Risk of Shortened URLs and How to Expand Them

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Shortened URLs are a fixture in the social networking world. They are the cryptic URLs you normally see on your Twitter feed as well as on Facebook.

Effective password testing using Metasploit

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Software vulnerabilities receive most of the limelight in network security, but weak, shared, and mismanaged passwords are often the biggest threat to most organizations.

Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for Tues Jan 17th 2012

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FYI for those running Oracle products such as OracleDB, Glassfish, MySQL, Solaris, etc. The following links will provide additional information to assist you. Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) Pre-Release Announcement - January 2012

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SANS Mobile Device Security Summit 2012: The Growing and Constantly Changing Challenge

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Mobile Devices continue to evolve, and with each development there are becoming more efficient tools employees increasingly rely on to conduct both their corporate and personal business. Portable applications that allow the user to access sensitive corporate data are prime targets for hackers and provide them a wide range of access port to data. Controlling security breaches of mobile devices is complex due to the varying software and device types. Additionally, many organizations have no restrictions on the use of personal devices.

FastAccess Anywhere by Sensible Vision

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Mario Armstrong has sales person demo security app FastAccess Anywhere by Sensible Vision. FastAccess Anywhere securely replaces passwords with a face to authenticate users to access their apps and web sites on mobile devices.