Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply

Computerworld Security: Issues and Trends: March 27, 2013
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Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply

Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your
own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Security Manager's Journal: R&D's new security lab is a promising step
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606164/0/

2. 3G and 4G USB modems are a security threat, researcher says
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606165/0/

3. Mobile enterprise management tools are targeted by spyphones, researchers warn
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606166/0/

4. Google launches site to help webmasters of hacked sites
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606167/0/

5. Cisco inadvertently weakens password encryption in its IOS operating system
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606168/0/

6. Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606169/0/

7. Digital rights activists decry computer crime proposal
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606170/0/

8. Legal experts pitch in to appeal AT&T hacker's sentence
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606171/0/

9. Experts: Iran and North Korea are looming cyberthreats to U.S.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606172/0/


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nation-state attacks.

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Security Manager's Journal: R&D's new security lab is a promising step

For once, security isn't an afterthought, as the R&D department plans its own
sandbox for testing the company's software products.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606164/0/

3G and 4G USB modems are a security threat, researcher says

The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to
their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure
software, according to two security researchers from Russia.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606165/0/

Mobile enterprise management tools are targeted by spyphones, researchers warn

Enterprises that use mobile device management (MDM) systems to protect their
corporate data on employees' mobile phones are not safe from attacks from
spyphones, researchers warned at BlackHat Europe.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606166/0/

Google launches site to help webmasters of hacked sites

Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked,
something that the company says happens thousands of times every day.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606167/0/

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3 Steps to a Cost-Effective Mobile Strategy

In the new Moovweb white paper, "Creating the Right Mobile Strategy: What You
Need to Know Before You Get Started", get the insight you need to make an
educated decision on the move to mobile.

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Cisco inadvertently weakens password encryption in its IOS operating system

The password encryption algorithm used in some recent versions of the Cisco IOS
operating system is weaker than the algorithm it was designed to replace, Cisco
revealed.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606168/0/

Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions

The practice of issuing SSL certificates for internal domain names with
unqualified extensions could endanger the privacy and integrity of HTTPS
communications for upcoming generic top-level domains, according to a security
advisory from ICANN.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606169/0/

Digital rights activists decry computer crime proposal

A proposal in Congress to strengthen the penalties in the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act is a "giant leap in the wrong direction" for digital rights activists
calling for changes in the law after the suicide of hacktivist Aaron Swartz
earlier this year.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606170/0/

Legal experts pitch in to appeal AT&T hacker's sentence

Legal experts are stepping in to help hacker Andrew Auernheimer appeal his 41
month prison sentence for illegally accessing emails and other data belonging to
about 120,000 iPad subscribers of AT&T's networks.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8511251/823929840/606171/0/

Experts: Iran and North Korea are looming cyberthreats to U.S.

Cyberattacks supposedly originating from China have raised alarms in recent
weeks, but U.S. businesses and government agencies should worry as much about
Iran and North Korea, a group of cybersecurity experts said.
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