Thursday 24 March 2011

Does RSA SecurID have a U.S gov't-authorized back door?

GoDaddy: We're ready to secure .com names with DNSSEC | Intel's McAfee unit to acquire Sentrigo

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Does RSA SecurID have a U.S gov't-authorized back door?
Does the RSA SecurID two-token authentication system include a back door that was built in at the request of the U.S. government in exchange for letting RSA export SecurID? Read More


VIDEO: Cymphonix

Gartner Video: Secure & Control Internet Traffic
In this video, three leading experts from Gartner, Hitachi Consulting and Cymphonix discuss the critical factors for evaluating and deploying a Secure Web Gateway to address the growth in connected applications and media-rich websites, as well as increasingly sophisticated malware threats and evasion techniques. Learn More!

WEBCAST: Palo Alto Networks

Forrester: Zero-Trust Architecture Discussion
In this video, John Kindervag, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research defines "zero-trust architecture", outlines the 5 steps needed to make this model actionable, and explains how his clients are adopting a "zero-trust architecture". Read now!

GoDaddy: We're ready to secure .com names with DNSSEC
With more than 47 million domain names under management, GoDaddy has a huge DNS infrastructure that it has upgraded to support the emerging Internet security standard known as DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions. Read More

Intel's McAfee unit to acquire Sentrigo
Intel's McAfee subsidiary on Wednesday said it would acquire Sentrigo, which provides database security and compliance products. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Ultrium LTO

Securing Sensitive Information
Encryption of tape data can safeguard information. Implementing LTO-4 tape drive encryption is a relatively simple process and ensures that sensitive data is anatomically secured with no tape performance penalty. Read the latest advances in encryption technology and the questions to ask regarding key management. Read now

Analysts: Firefox 4 security a step up
Mozilla this week released Firefox 4, the newest version of its free and open source Web browser. The product includes a number of features designed to enhance security. Read More

Firm points finger at Iran for SSL certificate theft
Iran may have been involved in an attack that resulted in hackers' acquiring bogus digital certificates for some of the Web's biggest sites, including Google and Gmail, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo, a certificate issuing firm said. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell

PCI 2.0: What's New? What Matters? What's Left?
The inclusion of virtualization in PCI 2.0 demonstrates that the PCI DSS standard can keep pace with new technologies. This paper discusses what's new in PCI 2.0 and offers guidance on closing gaps that still need attention particularly in the areas of storage encryption, wireless networking, and physical security. Learn more.

The RSA Breach: Lessons Learned for Enterprise Organizations
The folks at RSA called me the other day to discuss what they could about the breach and what they are telling customers. As far as the breach goes, RSA didn't tell me anything new. The breach is being classified as an APT and RSA is working with law enforecement authorities in an ongoing investigation so it is not ready to disclose any details. Read More

Emerging iPhone, iPad 2 App Enables Remote Surveillance
A new iPad app aims to give soldiers on the street a bird's eye view of the combat zone. Read More

The Russian Cybermafia: Boa Factory & CarderPlanet
At the 2009 BlackHat Conference USA, researchers Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of Threat Research at McAfee, and J. Keith Mularski, Supervisory Special Agent for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Cyber Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit and the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance collaborated on a presentation entitled "Fighting Russian Cybercrime Mobsters: Report from the Trenches." Read More



GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here.

SLIDESHOWS

Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs
Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free.

First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5.

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