House passes CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill

Computerworld Security: April 27, 2012
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House passes CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a cyberthreat information-sharing
bill that critics say will give U.S. government agencies access to the private
communications of millions of Internet users
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Facebook hacker comes clean
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2. Most of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS websites are insecure, group says
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3. 'Obstinate' Conficker worm infests millions of PCs years later
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4. Preston Gralla: Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" on security says security firm Kaspersky
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Facebook hacker comes clean

The hacker who stole Facebook source code has gone public with a deeper
explanation of how he penetrated the most popular social network in the world.
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Most of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS websites are insecure, group says

Ninety percent of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are
vulnerable to known types of SSL attack, according to a report by the
Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), a nonprofit organization that tries to
solve Internet security, privacy and reliability problems.
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'Obstinate' Conficker worm infests millions of PCs years later

The long-suppressed Conficker botnet is still actively infecting millions of new
machines, giving Windows enterprise users a two-and-a-half-year headache.
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Preston Gralla: Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" on security says security firm Kaspersky

Macs are about to be swamped by a new wave of malware attacks, and are risk
because Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" when it comes to security, says
Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of the security firm Kaspersky. If he's right,
the recent Flashback Trojan attack is the shape of things to come

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Aha!

This IT pilot fish is checking the control system for a pharmaceutical company's
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