Warning! Targeted Internet misdirection on the rise

Computerworld Security: Issues and Trends: November 20, 2013
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Warning! Targeted Internet misdirection on the rise

Unknown attackers have successfully hijacked and redirected Internet traffic
belonging to financial services companies, VoIP providers and governments many
times over the past year.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Security Manager's Journal: Time to tweak the security policies
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643287/19/

2. Microsoft Patch Tuesday advisories urge ditching old, weak crypto algorithms
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3. Thornton May: Caught between mobility's rock and hard place
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4. INSIDER: The best data security offense is a good defense
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5. Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach
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6. NSA spying prompts open TrueCrypt encryption software audit to go viral
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643292/30/

7. Google says users deserve to know more about surge in gov't data requests
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643293/31/

8. Researchers reveal IE zero-days after hackers set 'watering hole' traps
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643294/32/

9. Security researchers laud Microsoft, Facebook bug bounty programs
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643295/33/

10. Let's put a brake on the real snoopers
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643296/34/

11. Payment card industry gets updated security standard with new requirements
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How Social Media Can Shape Perceptions of Product Quality

Descriptive statistics, text analytics and social network analysis provide a way
for to determine how customers purchasing decisions are affected by what they
see on the Internet. This paper describes how analytics can be applied to social
media for monitoring and addressing perceptual quality.

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Security Manager's Journal: Time to tweak the security policies

No policy, no matter how well crafted, is immune from periodic review. Fall is
when our manager tackles that.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643287/37/

Microsoft Patch Tuesday advisories urge ditching old, weak crypto algorithms

Microsoft patched serious vulnerabilities Tuesday in Windows, Internet Explorer
and Office, but also urged customers to stop using the aging RC4 cipher and
SHA-1 hashing function in their systems and services.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643288/38/

Thornton May: Caught between mobility's rock and hard place

The rock: Users want to use their smartphones for work. The hard place: Security
is deficient. All CIOs are caught between the two.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643289/39/

INSIDER: The best data security offense is a good defense

After several missed security audits, the IT team at the Pennsylvania Department
of Public Welfare built an ambitious security risk framework so audit reports
could be prepared in a timely fashion. Insider; free registration
required.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643290/40/

Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach

Facebook locked some users out of their accounts after determining that their
log-in credentials were exposed as a result of a security breach at Adobe. The
company is asking users who used the same log-in credentials for Adobe's online
services and Facebook to verify their identity and change their password.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643291/41/

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organizations can effectively address these difficulties while getting the most
out of their valuable information assets.

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NSA spying prompts open TrueCrypt encryption software audit to go viral

A unique effort to crowdsource a security audit of the popular TrueCrypt open
source encryption software appears to be going viral three weeks after it was
launched by two U.S. based researchers in response to concerns that the National
Security Agency may have tampered with it.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643292/43/

Google says users deserve to know more about surge in gov't data requests

The number of government requests for user information received by Google has
doubled since 2010, not including requests made under the U.S. Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act, which the company is not allowed to disclose.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643293/44/

Researchers reveal IE zero-days after hackers set 'watering hole' traps

Security researchers have uncovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet
Explorer that have been exploited by attackers in an unusual "watering hole"
campaign launched from a U.S.-based website that specializes in domestic and
international security policy.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643294/45/

Security researchers laud Microsoft, Facebook bug bounty programs

Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for
launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report
vulnerabilities in widely used products.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643295/46/

Let's put a brake on the real snoopers

The outcry over the NSA/GCHQ Internet surveillance scandal can't hide the fact
that huge corporations won't say what they know.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643296/47/

Payment card industry gets updated security standard with new requirements

The PCI Security Standards Council updated its security standard, adding new
requirements and guidance for payment-card industry organizations, including
merchants, payment processors, financial institutions and service providers.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8795325/823929840/643297/48/



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