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Demystifying the Chinese Hacking Industry: Earning 6 Million a Night - An Interview with a Member of the Chown Group (COG) about the billion dollar hacking business in China

Free Online security course (LearnSIA) - A Call for Help - The Survivability and Information Assurance (SIA) course was originally developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon, led by Lawrence Rogers (/about/divisions/cert/index.cfm). Back in 2010, I requested a license to continue the development of the course because it provides useful information on Information Assurance. Also, this course will always be freely available for anyone to use in the classroom or self-study. There are three parts to the LearnSIA curriculum.

  3 Steps To Make Your Database More Secure (Oct 31)
 

Sound IT risk management is all about identifying critical data assets and giving them the most protection. The more critical an asset, the more defenses should be around it. Unfortunately, when it comes to databases, most companies get that formula backward.
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Threats to begin unmasking members of Zetas reined back as cartel rumoured to be hiring own security specialists for physical retaliation