15 Free Security and Backup Utilities

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• 15 Free Security and Backup Utilities
• Can Adobe Stop the Hate?
• Aussies scammed out of $70m online
• May 4 named as 'Day against DRM'
• EMC expands RSA consulting services
• Why 41 Percent of You Would Fail a PCI Audit
• Verizon shares framework to gather, analyze security incident data
• Ultra-secure Firefox offered to UK bank users
• Average annual cost of PCI compliance audit? $225k
• New zero-day involves IE, puts Windows XP users at risk
• London GPs helping patients opt out of huge NHS database
• Suspend airport body scanner program, privacy groups say
• Corporate Espionage: Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday

15 Free Security and Backup Utilities Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST Lock Down Your PC

Can Adobe Stop the Hate? Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST The way IT security pros see it, Adobe is the monster they can't live with anymore. But they really can't live without it, either.

Aussies scammed out of $70m online Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST Australians lost more than $70 million through online scams last year, according to a Federal Government report.

May 4 named as 'Day against DRM' Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST Tuesday May 4 has been named as this year's Day against Digital Rights Management (DRM) by the President of the Free Software Foundation.

EMC expands RSA consulting services Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST EMC is expanding its security consulting services to help enterprises tackle the complexities of securing their data and complying with regulations in virtualized computing environments.

Why 41 Percent of You Would Fail a PCI Audit Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST Miscellaneous news bytes from the RSA 2010 press room: QSAs tell Ponemon Institute that 41 percent of companies would bomb their PCI security audit; hackers industrialize their sinister revolution and VeriSign opens a new compatibility lab.

Verizon shares framework to gather, analyze security incident data Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST Verizon today released its Verizon Incident Sharing framework, a move aimed at helping enterprises consistently analyze and share incident data, whether internally or with each other.

Ultra-secure Firefox offered to UK bank users Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST UK users are being offered a 'hardened' version of Mozilla Firefox that can secure access to online bank accounts, maker Network Intercept has announced.

Average annual cost of PCI compliance audit? $225k Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST Merchants that undergo network audits to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards are paying an average of $225,000 each year.

New zero-day involves IE, puts Windows XP users at risk Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PST Microsoft on Sunday confirmed it's investigating an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers could exploit to plant malware on Windows XP machines running IE.

London GPs helping patients opt out of huge NHS database Posted: 26 Feb 2010 08:00 AM PST GPs in London are helping patients to opt out of digital care records, in a move that could present a major threat to the central part of the £12.7 billion (US$19.4 billion) National Programme for IT.

Suspend airport body scanner program, privacy groups say Posted: 26 Feb 2010 08:00 AM PST The Electronic Privacy Information Center and consumer advocate Ralph Nader are urging President Obama to review the administration's multibillion-dollar plans to install whole body scanners at U.S. airports.

Corporate Espionage: Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday Posted: 26 Feb 2010 08:00 AM PST Even today there are some still blank stares when I suggest to an audience of C-level executives or security professionals that they should all read the front pages of the Financial Times, the Yomiuri Shimbun, etc., as well as the technology news, if they want to know what cyber risks and threats to prepare for.

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