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7 essentials for defending against DDoS attacks  18 June 2013 
Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Alex   
Intrusion Detection Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything.
 
Prism doesn't have CIOs in a panic -- yet  18 June 2013 
Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Privacy Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions.
 
PNoy phone hacker denies vandalism  18 June 2013 
Source: ABS-CBN News - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Latest News The hacker who released what he claimed were the mobile phone numbers of President Aquino said his act was not cyber vandalism.
 
Our Top-Secret Message to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden  17 June 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Alex   
Privacy Don’t read this if you aren’t him.
 
Blowback from the NSA Surveillance  17 June 2013 
Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Privacy There's one piece of blowback that isn't being discussed -- aside from the fact that Snowden killed the chances of a liberal arts major getting a job at the DoD for a decade -- and that's how the massive NSA surveillance of the Internet affects the US's role in Internet governance.
 
LulzSec Hacker Ryan Cleary To Be Released  17 June 2013 
Source: Information Week - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Latest News Convicted LulzSec hacker Ryan Cleary, 21, is set to be released "imminently" after appearing Wednesday in a London courtroom for sentencing relating to charges that he made and possessed 172 indecent images of children on his PC.
 
Can You Completely Secure Linux?  17 June 2013 
Source: eSecurity Planet - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Server Security How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system? That question was asked and answered at the Red Hat Summit this week by Josh Bressers, who heads the Red Hat Product Security Team.
 
Linux Advisory Watch: June 14th, 2013  14 June 2013 
Source: LinuxSecurity Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Linux Advisory Watch Thank you for reading the Linux Advisory Watch Security Newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's vendor security bulletins and pointers on methods to improve the security posture of your open source system.
 
Kim Dotcom releases a video of Megaupload raid  14 June 2013 
Source: Inquirer - Posted by Alex   
Security FILE STORAGE ENTREPRENEUR Kim Dotcom has released a video of the police raid on his house in January 2012.
 
Google detects phishing attacks in Iran ahead of elections  14 June 2013 
Source: TechWorld - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Hacks/Cracks Google has detected large-scale phishing attacks targeting users in Iran, ahead of presidential elections in the country.
 
Users warned to remove Debian Multimedia repository  14 June 2013 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Latest News The Debian project is warning users that the unofficial Debian Multimedia repository now has to be considered unsafe. According to the Debian maintainers, the debian-multimedia.org domain is not being used by the maintainers of the unofficial repository any more and is now registered to a party unknown to the Debian project.
 
NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar  13 June 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Privacy Inside Fort Meade, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings—the city has its own post office, fire department, and police force. But as if designed by Kafka, it sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras.
 
Prosecuting Snowden  12 June 2013 
Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Government Edward Snowden broke the law by releasing classified information. This isn't under debate; it's something everyone with a security clearance knows. It's written in plain English on the documents you have to sign when you get a security clearance, and it's part of the culture. The law is there for a good reason, and secrecy has an important role in military defense.
 
Mozilla, others launch campaign to expose government snooping  12 June 2013 
Source: CSO Online - Posted by Alex   
Security Projects Mozilla, maker of the popular Firefox web browser, and dozens of political, technology and business groups launched a campaign Tuesday calling for action against federal agencies snooping on citizens on the Internet.
 
    
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