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• 27 August 2011

• News: London Fire Brigade implements Courion identity and access management

  The London Fire Brigade has deployed a new identity and access management (IAM) system to help protect its data systems and ease the workload on its helpdesk.

• 26 August 2011

• News: China yanks video that leaked hacking tool

  The state-run China Central Television network has yanked a video that inadvertently included a short clip of a cyber-attack tool targeting Falun Gong websites.

• News: IT security rundown for week ending Aug. 26

  This past week in security news was highlighted by a hacking revelation out of China, bad news for banks, good news for Sony gaming customers and a curious email that might have been at the heart of the big RSA data breach.

• Opinion: How To Protect Yourself From Supercookies

  Everybody loves cookies, those little packets of code that websites leave in your browser. We love them because they make Web browsing more convenient by saving our usernames, passwords and other unique data from one session to the next. Marketing companies love them because they uniquely identify visitors and can be combined with traffic logs to compile a profile of your interests and browsing habits.

• News: Facebook, Twitter light up with Hurricane Irene data

  As people up and down the East Coast of the United States prepare for Hurricane Irene, social networks are being used to get the word out about its path and how best to deal with it.

• News: DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams

  As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity.

• News: Wireless carriers prep for Hurricane Irene

  The nation's largest wireless carriers today are preparing for Hurricane Irene as it moves up the East Coast.

• News: UK charges another alleged Anonymous member

  U.K. police said Thursday a 22-year-old student has been charged in connection with participating in distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDOS) with the hacking collective Anonymous.

• News: Mozilla: We won't ditch Firefox version numbers

  Mozilla will not scrub the version number from Firefox's 'About' box after all, putting an end to a often-heated debate that first surfaced two weeks ago.

• News: Facebook, Twitter and RIM to meet home secretary about riots

  Executives at the main social media networks and messaging outlets – Facebook, Twitter and RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) – are set to meet home secretary Theresa May today, to discuss their products’ usage in the UK riots.

• News: Was this the e-mail that took down RSA?

  "I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it."

• 25 August 2011

• News: 70% of Hongkongers use same password for multiple accounts

  About 70 percent of Hongkers use the same password for an average of seven online accounts, said City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and PayPal Hong Kong Tuesday when unveiling results of the Online payment Security Survey.

• News: Banks blocking more fraudulent money transfers from hijacked business accounts

  Cybercriminals increasingly are targeting business bank accounts to set up fake money transfers. But the good news is, banks seem to be getting better at stopping some fraudulent transactions before stolen funds leave the institution.

• News: Scariest IPv6 attack scenarios

  Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4.

• News: Post-riot, UK government halts talk of social media shutdown

  The U.K. government met on Thursday with technology companies for a post-mortem on the violent riots earlier this month, but made clear from the onset that it was no longer considering shutting down services in times of crisis.

• News: Anonymous Leaks Nude Images of BART Spokesman

  The hacking group Anonymous has waged a full-on war on BART, the San Francisco subway system, over cellular shutdowns to stifle protests. Following two demonstrations that led to temporary station closures, hacking and posting personal information of BART police officers, Anonymous has now posted naked photos of BART spokesman Linton Johnson.

• News: Researchers see improvements in breakaway Zeus malware

  A dangerous piece of malicious code responsible for stealing money from online bank accounts is being updated with new functions after its source code was leaked earlier this year, according to security researchers.

• News: Facebook scam seeks Apple iPhone 5 testers

  Spammers are exploiting the popularity surrounding the next iteration of Apple's iPhone by promising a free Apple iPhone 5 to social networkers.

• News: SEC facing damaging data destruction allegations

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US financial regulator, has been accused of destroying thousands of data files on high profile inquiries including an early-stage investigation into convicted Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernard Madoff.

• 24 August 2011

• News: Experts positive on Facebook's new privacy controls

  Privacy advocates and security experts have given Facebook a preliminary thumbs-up on the upcoming changes designed to improve privacy controls on its site.

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