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• 09 May 2013

• News: Lesson from the Google office hack: Do not trust third-parties

  Many Tridium Niagara systems in use today are left unpatched, and the company acknowledges there's a problem with update deployments

• News: Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

  Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised.

• News: Barclays adopts voice biometrics for customer identification

  Barclays Wealth & Investment Management is using Nuance’s FreeSpeech voice biometrics solution to automatically confirm and identify customers, instead of using security questions that rely on the customer’s ability to remember a number of different details.

• News: CIOs fail to protect mainframe customer testing data

  A fifth of CIOs (20 per cent) admit to not masking or protecting their customer data before providing it to outsourcers for mainframe application testing purposes.

• News: Researchers find hundreds of insecure building control systems

  Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.

• News: Microsoft releases fix-it for Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability

  Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website.

• News: Researchers find hundreds of insecure building control systems

  Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.

• News: The Kwikset Kevo lock opens at your touch

  Those fancy entry locks with the touch-sensitive numeric keypads are so 2012. Kwikset's new Kevo deadbolt quizzes your iPhone to verify that you're authorized to enter, and then unlocks when you physically touch it.

• 08 May 2013

• News: Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment

  The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations will stop selling vital items, according to a new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

• News: Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

  The network at one of the biggest annual networking shows is being subject to a series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) creating the equivalent of 90 million sessions attempting to use the network at the same time, all as part of a controlled test of the Interop network.

• News: Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks

  Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday.

• News: Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands

  A 35-year-old Dutchman suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherlands on Monday evening, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Wednesday.

• News: Experts wary of Pentagon cybersecurity report fingering China

  Marks first time U.S. has accused China of using cyberweapons to steal intellectual property, and gain a military and economic advantage

• News: Welcome sign for hijackers on 24-7 for 30% of social networkers

  Survey also finds nearly half of netizens need nudge to change passwords

• How-Tos: Passwords: You're doing it wrong. Here's how to make them uncrackable.

  For years now I've harangued relatives about their shoddy password practices. Either they use easily-hacked passwords or forget the passwords they've created--sometimes both.

• News: Malwarebytes adds antivirus scanning to cloud backup software

  Left-field antivirus firm Malwarebytes has launched the first ex-beta version of Secure Backup, a cloud security system designed to scan users’ files for infection before storing them in the cloud.

• News: Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software

  The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers.

• News: Salesforce customers will need a serious reason to be in new UK data centre

  European Salesforce customers will need a ‘serious reason’ to be hosted in the cloud giant’s new UK-based data centre, which is due to open by 2014.

• News: Stealthy Web server malware spreads further

  A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why.

• News: Proposed U.S. law aims to counter cybertheft with import bans

  A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate aims to block imports of products containing U.S. technology stolen online, a move that appears primarily directed at China.

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