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College and students ravaged by viruses for over a decade

Malware that lay undetected on the PCs at a US college for over a decade has probably allowed criminals as far afield as China, Russia and Iran to steal sensitive data, admins have discovered to their horror.
HTTPS security undermined by lax certificate authorities, says EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published research showing that the SSL certificate system that underpins web security is far from trustworthy.
Google Search Appliance to index cloud and private data

Google's business search box will sift through data in the cloud and behind company firewalls with the Monday release of Google Search Appliance 6.8.
Bogus intranets scam university students

Universities and their population of students have been marked out as the next soft target by online criminals, security company RSA has reported.
Google plug-in turns Microsoft IE into Chrome

Google today released a plug-in that embeds its Chrome browser into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a move one analyst said may be an admission by Google that getting users to switch is harder than it anticipated.
Mozilla offers 'build your own Firefox' to business

Mozilla is readying a program that will allow companies to build their own customised browsers based on the next version of Firefox, which will be out in a few weeks.
Facebook worm resurfaces on Google

Google users could be facing the returm of a worm that first hit Facebook in July.
Breeze makes mobile apps easy

Anyone who can build a web page can build a mobile application using a J2ME development tool called Breeze, according to the tool's maker, Cascada Mobile.
Expert highlights power grid vulnerability

Cracking a power company network and gaining access that could shut down the grid is simple, a security expert told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day.
IBM buys single sign-on technology

IBM has bought Encentuate and to add the company's single-sign-on technology to its Tivoli line of products.

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Microsoft's 5 biggest weaknesses

For all its success as the world's biggest maker of PC operating systems and office programs, Microsoft's position as the dominant provider of software to consumers is at risk. Here are five reasons why.
Why Google+ Business Profiles beat Facebook Pages

Google confirmed that it's planning to roll out business profiles to its new Google+ social network. The news is bittersweet for small to midsize businesses.
Red Hat faces stiff challenges to move beyond its core technology

Clad in his pyjamas, Red Hat co-founder Marc Ewing arrived at work at 1100 one day in 1998, unlocked the office for a new employee, and promptly left to go back to sleep.
Virtual privacy

VPNs shouldn't be a mystery, you just need to decide which of the different VPN technologies you ought to use.
Are firewalls expendable?

For some time now, enterprise security has been based around extensive use of firewall - but has the technology had its day?
Open source is widespread but much is invisible

Open source software is in more widespread use than IT managers believe -- the higher the manager, the lower the visibility of OSS.

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The Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems introduce DirectAccess, a new feature designed to provide remote users with seamless, secure access to internal enterprise networks. This article describes the technologies underlying DirectAccess as well as best practices to help administrators successfully deploy, monitor, and manage it in their own environments.
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Twelve ways to use your intranet to cut your costs

In an era of corporate belt-tightening, intranets can play a pivotal role in helping organisations cut costs. Most obviously, they streamline communication and the provision of information, and provide access to self-service tools that make processes more efficient.
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In Today?s Web 2.0 Environment, Proactive Security Is Paramount. Are You Protected?

Applications are now enabled over the Internet and the use of corporate intranets and extranets are now critical components of business. Indeed, organizations now build their businesses on Web infrastructures, and we?ve even seen the proliferation of completely ?virtual? companies that have no physical headquarters at all. Today?s business model includes inbound access for remote employees, partners, and customers. Internal employees also reach beyond the edge of the internal network to communicate and gather information across the Internet. This bi-directional aspect of IP-based application access creates significant security challenges for enterprises, however. Communication methods are both inbound and outbound, and so too, threats have also become both inbound and outbound in nature.
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Enterprise authentication used to be simple: passwords for everyone, tokens for a small number who work remotely. But the world is changing. The workforce is now mobile, with employees accessing the corporate network from hotels, coffee shops and their homes, putting confidential data at risk. New security practices and policies are being rolled out for regulatory compliance, and they all highlight the need for strong authentication.
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In Today?s Web 2.0 Environment, Proactive Security Is Paramount. Are You Protected?

This paper outlines these new threats and discusses the limited effectiveness of legacy Web security solutions against those threats. The paper then outlines the new proactive security paradigm that is necessary for securing Web 2.0 applications and protecting the enterprises that use them on a daily basis.
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