General Security
Congress withdraws SOPA and PIPA

Lawmakers on Friday indefinitely postponed anti-piracy legislation that pits Hollywood against Silicon Valley, two days after major Internet companies staged an online protest by blacking out parts of prominent websites.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid postponed a showdown vote in his chamber on the Protect Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA for short, that had been scheduled for January 24.

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Training
Upcoming SANS 2012 (Orlando) Information Security Training Event

SANS 2012 (March 23-30, 2012) is fast approaching! More than 35 courses are offered, all taught by our top-rated instructors who are the best at ensuring you learn the material and can apply it immediately when you return to your office. Choose from audit, IT legal, security management, software and web app developer, forensics, computer security training, and more.

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General Security
Security Risk of Shortened URLs and How to Expand Them

Shortened URLs are a fixture in the social networking world. They are the cryptic URLs you normally see on your Twitter feed as well as on Facebook.

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General Security
Effective password testing using Metasploit

Software vulnerabilities receive most of the limelight in network security, but weak, shared, and mismanaged passwords are often the biggest threat to most organizations.

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General Security
Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for Tues Jan 17th 2012

FYI for those running Oracle products such as OracleDB, Glassfish, MySQL, Solaris, etc. The following links will provide additional information to assist you.

Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) Pre-Release Announcement - January 2012

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Mobile Security
SANS Mobile Device Security Summit 2012: The Growing and Constantly Changing Challenge

Mobile Devices continue to evolve, and with each development there are becoming more efficient tools employees increasingly rely on to conduct both their corporate and personal business. Portable applications that allow the user to access sensitive corporate data are prime targets for hackers and provide them a wide range of access port to data. Controlling security breaches of mobile devices is complex due to the varying software and device types. Additionally, many organizations have no restrictions on the use of personal devices.

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General Security
FastAccess Anywhere by Sensible Vision

Mario Armstrong has sales person demo security app FastAccess Anywhere by Sensible Vision. FastAccess Anywhere securely replaces passwords with a face to authenticate users to access their apps and web sites on mobile devices.

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