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• 10 May 2013

• News: Survey: Risk to organisational data an ongoing cloud security concern

  While companies have become more comfortable with the security of third-party cloud service providers, data security--particularly at the end user level--as well as concerns over meeting compliance requirements, remain top-of-mind among cloud adopters. This is the conclusion of a cloud security survey commissioned by NetIQ.

• News: MasterCard helps rolls out national ID cards in Nigeria

  The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard are teaming up to roll out 13 million multipurpose national identity smart cards.

• News: BYOD Policy: Employee Right to Social Media Privacy Is Paramount

  BYOD guidelines are just being defined, but one warning must rise above the din: never, ever, try to gain unauthorized access to an employee's private social networking site.

• News: What's old is new again: Spammers revived old schemes in March quarter

  Volumes remain steady as junkmeisters return to old spam scams

• News: Space station springs a leak; NASA preps spacewalk to fix it

  Astronauts on board the International Space Station are preparing for a possible spacewalk tomorrow to repair an ammonia leak.

• News: Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks

  Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.

• News: Gang arrested for £500,000 'Rolex rampage' using pwned Amex Black card

  Five men have been arrested by British police after allegedly going on an extravagant £500,000 ($775,000) spending spree using a compromised American Express Black card.

• News: Google's five-year plan for authentication: It's complicated

  Some of the technology has to be deployed together for maximum security, making the process complicated, said one security expert

• News: Bill would put mobile app vendors on the hook for privacy

  The mobile industry's efforts to convince lawmakers that self-regulation alone is the best way to address growing concerns over privacy-invading mobile applications appears to be running into some headwind.

• News: Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud

  A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted US$45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the U.S. and India.

• News: The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked

  Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team.

• 09 May 2013

• News: Microsoft Patch Tuesday targets multitude of Internet Explorer faults

  Microsoft is issuing critical security bulletins this Patch Tuesday that affect all versions of Internet Explorer and deal with an exploit that attackers are actively working.

• News: McAfee taps Intel to offer high-throughput intrusion-prevention system

  McAfee is taking advantage of its new owners by rolling out a high-throughput intrusion-prevention system (IPS) family built on Intel technology.

• News: PayPal Says It's Time to Ditch Passwords and PINs

  PayPal CISO Michael Barrett took the keynote stage at Interop today to announce the impending death of passwords and their replacement with more robust authentication protocols based on an open standard. Apple may lead the way with its next iPhone.

• News: US lawmakers introduce apps privacy bill

  New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect.

• News: Slideshow: 10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC

  She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.

• News: Universities get government funding to produce cyber security warriors

  Royal Holloway, University of London has received a £3.8 million grant to host a new centre for doctoral training (CDT) in cyber security.

• News: Hacking back: Digital revenge is sweet but risky

  Let's not mince words: Cyberattacks suck. Whether criminals are hacking our passwords, or Anonymous is simply making a statement, the disruptions and data breaches exact a heavy toll in terms of time, money, and security. For example, after the Associated Press Twitter account was hacked and bogus news was posted about an attack on the White House, the U.S. stock market took a nosedive.

• News: Adobe warns customers of unpatched critical flaw in ColdFusion

  Adobe has warned users of its ColdFusion application server platform of a critical vulnerability that could give unauthorized users access to sensitive files stored on their servers.

• News: Windows XP migration worries exaggerated by 'dead' applications

  Many organisations exaggerate the difficulties of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 by over-estimating the importance of little-used applications, a survey from consultancy Centrix Software has suggested.

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