General Security
How secure are you online? The checklist

Not all computer security is about tin foil hats and anonymous browsing. Everyone who uses a computer has a horse in the security race. For the purpose of this post, we're breaking down online security into four essential parts: passwords, browsers, at-home Wi-Fi and networking, and browsing on public Wi-Fi. Within those categories we'll give you a checklist of everything you should do, from the bare minimum to the tin-foil-hat best.

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Hack
Is the US government helping cyber crooks?

As the U.S. government defends our interests and technology in the escalating global cyberwar, could it inadvertently be handing cyberweapons to criminals?

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Hack
Hackers leak 1 million Apple device IDs

To cap off a summer of devastating corporate data breaches, hackers yesterday posted online what might be the crown jewel of 2012 data dumps: 1 million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch's, all purportedly stolen from the FBI.

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The SecurityOrb Show
The SecurityOrb Show Aug 22, 2012

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Cloud Security
Vulnerabiltiy Management in the Cloud

Vulnerability management is a key component of a strong information security program. And that's making sure that with everything you're doing – in the cloud, on the desktop, browsers and server environments – you can reduce the vulnerabilities so that no matter what threats are out there, they are less likely to be successful.

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Internet Safety
Website "WeKnowYourHouse.com" Threats Your Privacy and Safety

A new website known as WeKnowYourHouse.com combinations tweets by users who write about being home and sifts through those posts to find ones that also include the users' location data. Having those two pieces of information, which are publicly available, the site also incorporates Google Streetview to post an image of the person's home.

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Conference
EC-Council TakeDownCon Online

Online TakeDownCon Live August 15 and afterward on demand Highlighted Presentations: Bring Your Own Destruction Aamir Lakhani, Senior Solutions Technical Global Architect, World Wide Technology August 21, 2012 9:00 am PT, 12:00 pm ET BYOD is the word of the day.  Everyone is jumping at the chance to buy a solution that solves the BYOD issues. […]

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Privacy
Proposed Legislation to Curb 1.3 million Demand for Subscriber Information in 2011

With the introduction of a newly drafted legislation by Representative Edward Markey, he is looking for a way to curb the growing number of requests wireless carriers receive from U.S. law enforcement agencies for their customers' phone records.

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General Security
Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks

Microsoft has released a large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more.

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Conference
2012 Washington D.C. Tech-Security Conference

This year, the Washington D.C. Tech-Security Conference will bring together private industry, government decision makers and technical enthusiasts in the fields of Information & Network Security. This unique conference format will provide several interactive high intensity sessions as well as tremendous networking opportunities.

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