Thursday, March 29, 2012

How Secure Is the Cloud? IT Pros Speak Up

Computerworld Security: March 29, 2012
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For CIOs and IT professionals, the potential of the cloud is clear: transforming
IT from cost center to business engine. It promises the agility and scalability
that tech dreams are made of. By leveraging the cloud, you can complete typical
IT tasks in hours rather than weeks or months, allowing you to dedicate staff to
innovation, not just maintaining systems and infrastructure.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Preston Gralla: Here's how I know Google knows too much about me -- California bat protection
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557669/0/

2. Duqu malware resurfaces after four-month holiday
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557670/0/

3. Operation Global Blackout: Real danger or irrelevant?
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557671/0/

4. Kenneth Van Wyk: The case for Rugged Software
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557672/0/

5. Darlene Storm: America is losing the cybersecurity war; China hacked every major US company
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557673/0/

6. Security firms disable second Kelihos botnet
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557674/0/

7. EU to get tough on cybercrime, file-sharers to be spared
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557675/0/

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Preston Gralla: Here's how I know Google knows too much about me -- California bat protection

Sometimes Google's ad-delivering algorithms reveal just how much the company
knows about you, such as the contents of your email. I found this out in a
personal way when a month ago Google delivered an odd ad to me in Gmail from a
service promising to protect me against bats in California.

http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557669/0/

Duqu malware resurfaces after four-month holiday

Duqu, the malware that has been compared to 2010's notorious Stuxnet, is back,
security researchers said today.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557670/0/

Operation Global Blackout: Real danger or irrelevant?

Anonymous announced March 31 as the date of the attack, along with the method
they intend to use -- disabling the Domain Name Service through DDoS attacks.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557671/0/

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http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/553467/0/

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Kenneth Van Wyk: The case for Rugged Software

Why this latest attempt to make software more secure might stand a chance.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557672/0/

Darlene Storm: America is losing the cybersecurity war; China hacked every major US company

Richard Clarke, a former White House cybersecurity czar, said China has hacked
every major U.S. company. Clarke claimed that although the USA was behind
Stuxnet, America is defenseless against cyber espionage. The FBI's top cyber cop
agrees that the USA is outgunned, losing the war against cybercrooks, and
without changes, our unsustainable cybersecurity model will never offer a
reasonable expectation of security or privacy.

http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557673/0/

Security firms disable second Kelihos botnet

A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike,
Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the
second version of the Kelihos botnet, which is significantly bigger than the one
shut down by Microsoft and its partners in September 2011.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557674/0/

EU to get tough on cybercrime, file-sharers to be spared

The European Commission is to get tough on cybercrime it revealed on Wednesday,
but won't target illegal file-sharing.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7931728/823929835/557675/0/

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SHARK TANK OF THE DAY
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QUIET PLEASE!

This pilot fish is working at a level 2 network help desk when a request comes
in from a client -- and one of fish's co-workers quickly volunteers to handle
it.

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