RSA risk mitigation

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• RSA risk mitigation
• Lots of "people" you interact with online are sockpuppets
• Facebook Tip: Enable Encryption to Avoid Privacy Glitch
• Is EMC/RSA poised to buy NetWitness?
• Fighting Organized Retail Crime: Forget the hype!
• RSA breach puts APT back in the spotlight
• Delay in disclosing SSL theft put Iranian activists at risk, says researcher
• Big data to drive a surveillance society

RSA risk mitigation Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:00 AM PDT Unless you've been in a coma the past week you're aware that some sort of security breach occurred at RSA and that "... information specifically related to RSA's SecurID two-factor authentication products" was "extracted from RSA's systems."

Lots of "people" you interact with online are sockpuppets Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:29 AM PDT Lots of the people and organizations you interact with online are fake ... they're sockpuppets

Facebook Tip: Enable Encryption to Avoid Privacy Glitch Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:42 PM PDT Some Facebook traffic this week took a misguided trip from AT&T servers through China and South Korea, exposing some user data. To protect yourself against such glitches, here's how to enable Facebook's HTTPS feature.

Is EMC/RSA poised to buy NetWitness? Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:40 PM PDT Industry rumor is building this week that RSA, the security division of EMC, is poised to acquire NetWitness, a privately-held company whose flagship product is used by U.S. government agencies and in the enterprise to detect and analyze security threats.

Fighting Organized Retail Crime: Forget the hype! Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:34 PM PDT Several years ago, after reading an article by former Target Investigation head Chris Nelson, I made it my goal to get hired with their Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Investigation Team for three reasons: direction, innovation and resources.

RSA breach puts APT back in the spotlight Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:28 PM PDT Ever since Google announced it had been the victim of a sophisticated attack, and the subsequent breaches of many others -- including Adobe Systems, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace -- the term APT, or advanced persistent threat, has leaped from the lexicon of a few cyber-defenders in the military straight into the mainstream IT lexicon. So it has been with the public announcement from the EMC RSA Security division that it'd been the victim of an APT attack that may have resulted in some information about its SecurID tokens being compromised.

Delay in disclosing SSL theft put Iranian activists at risk, says researcher Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:23 PM PDT Security company Comodo's decision to delay disclosing the theft of digital certificates put the lives of Iranian activists at risk, a researcher charged.

Big data to drive a surveillance society Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:40 AM PDT Vendors and users of big data analytics gathered in New York this week to discuss the latest developments in a technology that they say will offer Web users and their customers a far more personalized experience while alleviating the need to throw away useful data.

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