MCSA w/Security, MCITP, Security+, Server+, CCNA, Network+, A+

December 02

French IT CEO Aims to Ban eMail Within His Company
Thierry Breton, CEO of French IT company Atos SA, has said that he wants to stop using email within his company. Instead, Breton wants his employees to communicate through collaborative social media. Breton hopes to eliminate the use of email within his company completely by spring of 2013. He says that email is a waste [...]

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HP Refutes Claim That Printer Flaw Could Be Exploited to Cause Fire
Hewlett-Packard acknowledges that there is a vulnerability in some of its LaserJet printers, but says that the claim made by those who disclosed the flaw that it could be exploited to set the machines on fire is untrue. A hardware component of HP printers called the thermal breaker would prevent the overheating the researchers said [...]

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US Government Wants Details of Telecoms’ Imported Network Components
The US government is asking telecommunications companies to provide detailed information about their networks in an effort to determine if China and other countries are using exported network equipment to conduct espionage. The US Commerce Department has asked the companies to list both foreign-made components of their networks and security incidents. Congress’s interest in this [...]

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Windows Data Execution Prevention Could Have Helped Thwart RSA Hack
New research suggests that the attacks on RSA might have been prevented if the targeted machines had been running Windows 7 instead of Windows XP. The Data Execution Prevention (DEP) that is baked into Windows 7 could have stopped the breach that led to the data breach. The machines compromised in the attack appear to [...]

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U.S. Legislator Wants Answers About Carrier IQ
US Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) wants Carrier IQ to explain why its diagnostic software does not violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In a letter to the company, Senator Franken writes that “it appears that [the] software captures a broad swath of extremely sensitive information from users that [...]

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November 15

Facebook Reaching Settlement with FTC Over Privacy
Facebook is close to a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that would require the network to make any changes to its privacy practices opt-in. Facebook has been the target of many complaints for making users’ personal information public by default. In the past, every time Facebook has changed the way it facilitates [...]

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November 13

Researcher Ousted From Apple’s iOS Developer Program
Apple has revoked researcher Charlie Miller’s developer status after he created a proof-of-concept application that allowed “unapproved code to run on iPhones and iPads” and managed to fool Apple into approving it for sale in the App Store. The application that Miller wrote and put in the App Store appeared to simply track stock share [...]

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Juniper Error Causes Widespread Internet Outage
A flaw in an update to the Juniper software that runs large routers that Juniper supplies to ISPs caused a widespread Internet outage – disabling large segments of the Internet. https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11965 http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/07/technology/juniper_internet_outage/?hpt=hp_t3

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Six Arrested in Connection with Clickjacking Scheme
The FBI said that six people have been arrested in connection with a click-fraud scheme that infected more than four million computers in countries around the world. The arrests were the result of a two-year investigation known as Operation Ghost Click. All six were arrested in Estonia. A seventh defendant, who is Russian, is still [...]

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Senate Votes Down Opposition to Net Neutrality
In a 52-46 party-line vote, the US Senate has rejected a resolution that would have overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules. President Obama had said he would veto the resolution if it passed. The FCC’s net neutrality rules are still facing challenges through lawsuits filed by telecommunications companies. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/senate-votes-down-anti-net-neutrality-resolution.ars http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/senate-net-neutrality-vote-.html http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/senate-net-neutrality/

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