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Adobe confirms Connectusers.com forum hack and shuts down website
Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com, a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform, because the site's user database was compromised. read more »
Cloud security outages are bigger risk than breaches, says Gartner
Security remains a chief inhibitor to enterprise adoption of cloud computing resources and one Gartner analyst says the biggest concern should not be that data could be compromised in the cloud, but rather that there may be a cloud outage that could lead to data loss. read more »
Skype disables password resets follow account hijacking flaw leak
Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the attackers know the email addresses associated with them. read more »
New UAE cyberlaw clamps down on political dissent, pornography, gambling
A new cyberlaw issued by the President of the United Arab Emirates this week provides for the imprisonment of political dissidents, according to information on the law from the government-run Emirates News Agency, also known as WAM (Wakalat Anba'a al-Emarat). read more »
Adobe investigating alleged customer data breach
Adobe said this morning it is investigating the release of 230 names, email addresses and encrypted passwords claimed to have been stolen from a company database. read more »
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How your company can avoid cyber espionage attacks
Malware continues to change at a rapid pace, as evidenced by new types of high-tech, military-grade malicious code grabbing headlines such as Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame. read more »
Innovate or die, says former Zynga CSO Nils Puhlmann
Managing Zynga's converged security department was a challenging job that Puhlmann says has left him ready for a break. But don't expect him to be relaxing for too long. Puhlmann is also the co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a community of over 33,000 security professionals worldwide that promotes the use of best practices for security in cloud computing. His work with CSA continues to evolve. read more »
Embedded security no excuse for employee irresponsibility
Security is no longer a function that can be restricted to just one group within the organisation. Up to now, the IT department has been afforded the luxury of seeing themselves as the guardians of corporate data, shielding the innocent employees of the organisation, behind the scenes and without their knowledge. read more »
Six tips for mobile device management security
There has been a lot of discussion this year about the increasing influx of consumer devices being used for both professional and personal purposes. Many organisations are feeling a little overwhelmed as they try to work out appropriate security levels and device management boundaries. When you take into consideration all the platform and application updates chewing through corporate bandwidth, plus the potential for rogue applications and malware to gain illicit access to company data, there are many headaches for security managers to deal with. read more »
Internet Explorer zero-day attacks - What you need to know
Microsoft has confirmed reports that a zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser is being actively attacked in the wild. While Microsoft works diligently to crank out a patch, it's important for businesses and consumers to understand the threat, and the steps that can be taken to avoid compromise while you wait. read more »
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