Researchers out to defend Android users from privacy thieves

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• Researchers out to defend Android users from privacy thieves
• SOURCE Boston: Two views on infosec interviewing, hiring
• Privacy activist to challenge BT, Phorm decision
• Microsoft delivers monster security update for Windows, IE
• Kerry, McCain introduced online privacy bill
• Data breach notification fatigue: Do consumers tune out?
• Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls
• Cisco urged to fold more than Flip

Researchers out to defend Android users from privacy thieves Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:25 AM PDT For Google Android, the best selling mobile OS in the world by some accounts, that popularity comes with a predictable price: Hackers, malware writers and other ne'er-do-wells are all over it.

SOURCE Boston: Two views on infosec interviewing, hiring Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:17 AM PDT It's one thing to be a capable infosec professional. It is something else to be capable at managing your own career -- knowing how to land the right job yourself or, as a manager, to spot and hire the kind of talent that will improve both your organization and your career prospects.

Privacy activist to challenge BT, Phorm decision Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:03 AM PDT A privacy activist plans to ask for a judicial review of British prosecutors' decision not to bring a case against BT and the online advertising company Phorm for running secret trials of a system that monitored peoples' Internet use without their consent.

Microsoft delivers monster security update for Windows, IE Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:10 AM PDT Microsoft today patched a record 64 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, IE and other software, including 30 bugs in the Windows kernel device driver and one in IE that was exploited at the Pwn2Own hacking contest.

Kerry, McCain introduced online privacy bill Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:04 AM PDT Privacy advocates criticize a bill focused on online data collection introduced Tuesday.

Data breach notification fatigue: Do consumers tune out? Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:10 PM PDT Data breach notifications are flying en masse following the Epsilon Interactive breach, but are they doing customers any good?

Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:19 AM PDT Some of the most commonly-used firewalls are subject to a hacker exploit that lets an attacker trick a firewall and get into an internal network as a trusted IP connection.

Cisco urged to fold more than Flip Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:17 PM PDT Flip shouldn't be Cisco's only fold in the challenging consumer market, industry watchers say.

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