SANS NetWars tests cybersecurity pros against peers

Computerworld Security: December 19, 2012
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SANS NetWars tests cybersecurity pros against peers

Organizers played "Eye of the Tiger" and "We are the Champions" over the
loudspeakers as participants in the SANS Institute's NetWars Tournament of
Champions sat down at their laptops and prepared for action.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Preston Gralla: Is your fridge an IRS snitch?
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2. Dell to buy security vendor Credant
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3. Trend Micro updates security app to detect Samsung attacks
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4. Man who hacked celebrity email accounts sentenced to prison
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5. Darlene Storm: Americans and hackers of all color hats unite against Westboro Baptist Church
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6. Java 7 update 10 lets users restrict Java apps in browsers
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WEBCAST: Workday~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CIOs in the Cloud

As cloud computing infiltrates the enterprise and transforms the business, the
CIO's role is also experiencing a transformation. This webcast focuses on how
cloud trends arechanging the CIO mindset and how cloud SaaS fosters a
cost-effective, productive, and efficient enterprise.

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Preston Gralla: Is your fridge an IRS snitch?

Neither federal and state law nor the courts have come close to catching up with
the privacy implications of so much of our data existing in a realm beyond our
complete control.
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Dell to buy security vendor Credant

Dell has made a deal to acquire data-protection vendor Credant Technologies and
plans to add the company's technology to its enterprise IT security offerings.
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Trend Micro updates security app to detect Samsung attacks

Trend Micro has updated its mobile security software to detect potential attacks
on several Samsung Electronics devices that have a flaw that could allow a
malicious application to access all of the phone's memory.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WEBCAST: Verizon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Machine-to-Machine Communications Transform Business

Learn how Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology is fueling such applications as
business intelligence (BI) and the smart electrical grid. And learn how to get
started deploying M2M technology.

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Man who hacked celebrity email accounts sentenced to prison

Christopher Chaney, a Florida man who admitted to illegally accessing email
accounts belonging to more than four dozen celebrities, was sentenced to 10
years in federal prison on Monday.
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Darlene Storm: Americans and hackers of all color hats unite against Westboro Baptist Church


Under a common loathing, Americans and hackers of all color hats have
united against Westboro Baptist Church after the hate-spewing group promised to
picket the grieving families of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. WBC
domains went Tango Down after a DDoS by the patriot hacker Jester and members of
Anonymous who are normally mortal enemies; WBC Twitter spokesperson @DearShirley
account was hijacked by Cosmo the God, and more than 184,000 Americans have
signed the online petition platform at WhiteHouse.gov to legally
recognize Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group instead of a religious
group.
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Java 7 update 10 lets users restrict Java apps in browsers

A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from
running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by
the Java Runtime Environment client.
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COMPUTERWORLD'S 2012 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

Need some help choosing holiday presents for the technology fans on your gift
list? We've rounded up this year's best tech gifts, from tablets and HDTVs to
smartphones, laptops and an array of other gadgets and accessories.

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This IT director pilot fish has had to watch as his budget has shrunk to the
point that his company's several remote call centers no longer have any IT staff
on site -- and the work-around for that isn't quite working.

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