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• Week in review: Vulnerable CCTV systems, Pinterest scam toolkits, and top three security concerns for CSOs and CIOs    (Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:47 -0400)
  Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, videos and articles: IT candidates should shift career perspectives Enterprises seem to be capitalizing on the competit...
• Twitter supports “Do Not Track” option    (Fri, 18 May 2012 14:15:45 -0400)
  The news was announced by Ed Felten, the US Federal Trade Commission's CTO, at a New York Internet Week privacy panel, and Twitter has quickly come out to confirm it: the popular micro-blogging servic...
• Facebook IPO advanced fee scam hitting inboxes    (Fri, 18 May 2012 12:53:29 -0400)
  Today's the day when Facebook has officially become a publicly traded company, after founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell and officially opened trading on the Nasdaq exchange. For months now, spec...
• MacScan 2.9.3 with Google Chrome and SeaMonkey support released    (Fri, 18 May 2012 11:29:31 -0400)
  SecureMac released MacScan 2.9.3, which features tracking cookie detection and cleaning for Google’s Chrome browser. MacScan is the premier Macintosh security program, protecting you against the ...
• Hacker jailed for targeting Call of Duty gamers    (Fri, 18 May 2012 08:36:07 -0400)
  It's a bad week for British hackers as another youth has been handed a prison sentence. 20-year-old Lewys Martin from Kent is a repeat offender that, among other things, masqueraded a keylogging T...
• Password creation policies are the enemy of secure passphrases    (Fri, 18 May 2012 06:54:52 -0400)
  Commenting on reports that a security developer has concluded that password-creation policies are the enemy of secure passwords, SecurEnvoy co-founder Steve Watts says that the fundamental issue is th...
• Secure data on Android devices with SecureZIP    (Fri, 18 May 2012 06:31:54 -0400)
  PKWARE announced SecureZIP Reader for Android, an application that secures enterprise and government data. The SecureZIP Solution secures corporate information that end-users send to the cloud vi...
• Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework updated    (Fri, 18 May 2012 03:02:44 -0400)
  The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) announced Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF), Version 1.1. Enhancements offer users a more comprehensive and fl...
• Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS    (Thu, 17 May 2012 11:43:33 -0400)
  After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was initially thought that An...
• Briton jailed for hacking a Facebook account    (Thu, 17 May 2012 11:07:52 -0400)
  Gareth Crosskey, a 21-year-old from West Sussex who was arrested for hacking into a private Facebook account, has been handed down a prison sentence of 12 months by the Southwark Crown Court on Wednes...