Tokyo's Cyber Emergency Centre at the vanguard of hacking defence

Tokyo's Cyber Emergency Centre at the vanguard of hacking defence

Tokyo's Cyber Emergency Centre at the vanguard of hacking defence

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InfoSec News: Tokyo's Cyber Emergency Centre at the vanguard of hacking defence: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7053320.ece
By Leo Lewis The Times March 8, 2010
Across one wall of a Thunderbirds-style command centre a huge map of the world keeps a running log of global cyber-attacks. Bloodcurdling names [...]

The Corporate Side of Snooping

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InfoSec News: The Corporate Side of Snooping: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/business/07shelf.html
By DEVIN LEONARD Off the Shelf The New York Times March 5, 2010
IT'S easy to understand how Washington reporters can become jaded. They are constantly being spun by the same gang of politicians and lobbyists [...]

Microsoft's tax-for-hacks 'horrible' idea, say security experts

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InfoSec News: Microsoft's tax-for-hacks 'horrible' idea, say security experts: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9166458/Microsoft_s_tax_for_hacks_horrible_idea_say_security_experts?taxonomyId=17
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld March 5, 2010
Microsoft's idea that the fight against malware could be funded by an Internet tax is "horrible," an analyst said Thursday as other experts weighed in on a recent comment by the company's security chief.
Earlier this week, Scott Charney, Microsoft's vice president for its Trustworthy Computing group, said that while there are plenty of ways to combat malware, scrub infected PCs and take down botnets, no one wanted to foot the bill.
"Maybe markets will make it work," Charney said, but then added that an Internet usage tax might be the solution. "You could say it's a public safety issue and do it with general taxation," Charney said.
"The idea of a general Net tax is a horrible idea," said John Pescatore, Gartner's security analyst. "Why not a tax on all retail goods for a standard antishoplifting service all merchants would have to use?" A business, he said, can now select what it thinks is the best anti-malware solution, but that choice would presumably vanish if funding for battling the bad guys went national.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg 'hacked into emails of rivals and journalists'

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InfoSec News: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg 'hacked into emails of rivals and journalists': http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1255888/Facebook-founder-Mark-Zuckerberg-hacked-emails-rivals-journalists.html
By Mail Foreign Service 06th March 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of hacking into the email accounts of rivals and journalists. [...]

Westin Bonaventure Los Angeles latest victim of hotel hackers

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InfoSec News: Westin Bonaventure Los Angeles latest victim of hotel hackers: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/hotelcheckin/post/2010/03/hackers-breach-westin-bonaventure-los-angeles-networks-cybercriminal/1
By Barbara De Lollis USA TODAY Hotel Check-In March 07, 2010
You may have to monitor your credit card statements - and even place a [...]

Linux Advisory Watch: March 6th, 2010

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InfoSec News: Linux Advisory Watch: March 6th, 2010: +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LinuxSecurity.com Linux Advisory Watch | | March 6th, 2010 Volume 11, Number 10 | | | [...]

At RSA, Some Security Pros Don't Practice What They Preach

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InfoSec News: At RSA, Some Security Pros Don't Practice What They Preach: http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/encryption/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223101624
By Tim Wilson DarkReading March 05, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA Conference 2010 -- You'd think the behavior of wireless users at one of the industry's biggest security conferences [...]

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