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Data Breaches Underscore Urgency for Security Code of Conduct; Why Mac's Supposed Immunity to Security Threats Gone Forever

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TOP STORIES - May 31, 2011
• Data Breaches Underscore Urgency for Security Code of Conduct
• Why Mac's Supposed Immunity to Security Threats Gone Forever
• IE Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Cookies, Access User Accounts
• HIPAA, HITECH Compliance Not Improving Health Care Data Security
• Damballa CSP Automates Botnet Identification, Removal
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• Windows' Unbreakable Market Dominance
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• Biggest Data Breaches of 2011 So Far
• Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year
IN THIS ISSUE
Data Breaches Underscore Urgency for Security Code of Conduct
Recent high-profile breaches have prompted lawmakers to propose a federal data breach notification law. And Consumer Reports has come out with a "Code of Conduct" companies should follow to be "better custodians" of their customers' data. We take a deeper look.
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Why Mac's Supposed Immunity to Security Threats Gone Forever
News Analysis: The days of Mac OS X being seemingly immune from viruses and other malware are gone forever as Apple has finally acknowledged the existence of fake Macintosh antivirus scams.
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IE Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Cookies, Access User Accounts
An independent security consultant demonstrated a "cookiejacking" technique to show how attackers can steal Web cookies to access user accounts online.
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HIPAA, HITECH Compliance Not Improving Health Care Data Security
Despite spending a lot of time making sure they are compliant with federal and state regulations, health care organizations claim they are still seeing a lot of data breaches.
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Damballa CSP Automates Botnet Identification, Removal
Damballa updated its CSP appliances to help Internet service providers and telco carriers roll out systems that can monitor and identify infected subscriber devices on their networks.
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iPad 2, LinkedIn IPO, Microsoft Azure Steal Tech Spotlight; IE Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Cookies, Access User Accounts

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TOP STORIES - May 31, 2011
• iPad 2, LinkedIn IPO, Microsoft Azure Steal Tech Spotlight
• IE Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Cookies, Access User Accounts
• Health Care IT Industry Shies Away from Cloud Adoption: CDW
• EMC, Citrix in Deal to Run XenDesktop on VNX Storage Systems
• AT&T, T-Mobile Deal Faces More Scrutiny, Debate
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Teardown: Covert FBI GPS Auto-Tracker
iFixit cracked open a GPS device capable of constantly tracking location that FBI agents have installed underneath some vehicles.
READ MORE >>
BEST OF eWEEK
• Hands-On with Samsung's Chromebook
• Windows' Unbreakable Market Dominance
• Top 10 Features Microsoft Project 2010
• Smart Cable Adds On 3D-Like Depth
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• Galaxy Tab 10.1: Fine iPad Alternative
• Droid X2: Best of the Old with the New
• Biggest Data Breaches of 2011 So Far
• Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year
IN THIS ISSUE
iPad 2, LinkedIn IPO, Microsoft Azure Steal Tech Spotlight
During the past six months, the IT world has seen how one device--Apple's iPad 2--could not only redefine the mobile market but also change the way we access our applications. The IT market also saw the re-emergence of the hot IPO and the growing reach of the cloud. It's been quite a year so far and a perfect time for a recap.
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IE Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Cookies, Access User Accounts
An independent security consultant demonstrated a "cookiejacking" technique to show how attackers can steal Web cookies to access user accounts online.
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Health Care IT Industry Shies Away from Cloud Adoption: CDW
Privacy concerns may be keeping health care IT from adopting a comprehensive cloud computing roadmap, according to a new CDW report.
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EMC, Citrix in Deal to Run XenDesktop on VNX Storage Systems
The partnership with EMC enables users of VNX storage systems to scale out their XenDesktop deployments to as many as 1,000 virtual desktops per server/storage array.
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AT&T, T-Mobile Deal Faces More Scrutiny, Debate
California, following Louisiana, may be the second state to open an inquiry into AT&T's proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile.
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This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments.
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Featured Webcasts
Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backups to the Cloud
Jun 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes)
To resolve this conflict some businesses have embraced legacy agent and tape-based approaches that over time become too costly to manage and can fail to meet service level requirements. For many organizations new approaches such as backup and archive to cloud storage solves the dilemma.
REGISTER >>

What Can Identity Management Do for You?
Jun 15, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes)
Register today for this online event to hear industry experts compare and contrast different architectures such as synchronization-based and event-based models. Executives will discuss the common problems most enterprises face when they address identity management, and give you valuable insight into how identity management can become the center of most, if not all, of your IT-management policies.
REGISTER >>


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