Computerworld Security: September 27, 2012 ===============================================================
Energy giant confirms breach of customer project files Telvent, a Canadian energy firm whose systems are used to control more than half of all oil and gas pipelines in North America and Latin America, confirmed a security breach involving some of its customers' project files. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583991/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Symantec~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FREE TRIAL: Protect Your Endpoints Get the fastest, most powerful endpoint antivirus software solution you can buy. Symantec Endpoint Protection, powered by Insight, is fast, powerful security for your endpoints and offers advanced defense against all types of attacks for both physical and virtual systems http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583992/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE 1. USSD attack hit SIM cards and Samsung Android devices http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583993/0/ 2. Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583994/0/ 3. INSIDER: Robert L. Mitchell: The paranoid user's guide to password protection: 10 steps to better security http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583995/0/ 4. Researcher finds 100K passwords, user IDs, on IEEE site http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583996/0/ 5. 5 (more) key cloud security issues http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583997/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/580619/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ USSD attack hit SIM cards and Samsung Android devices A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583993/0/ Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters Google yesterday patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome, and paid out $29,500 in bounties to nine researchers, more than half of that to one of the company's most prolific bug finders. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583994/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WHITE PAPER: Sourcefire, Inc.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amplify your Security to Fight Advanced Malware Until now many advanced malware solutions simply havent worked. Infections prevail. Is your organization protected against advanced malware? How can you be sure? Malware defense is clearly becoming a big data problem. Learn how you can close the gaps in previous advanced malware protection with the latest innovations. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583998/0/?3e076d18=YXJjaGl2ZUBtYWlsLWFyY2hpdmUuY29t&x=d84b40e6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INSIDER: Robert L. Mitchell: The paranoid user's guide to password protection: 10 steps to better security Yes, they are out to get you. Yes, they want your passwords. And if you're like most folks out there, you've given them plenty of ways to take them from you. If you're dead serious about securing your online life, here's 10 tips for locking down and protecting your accounts. Insider (free registration required). http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583995/0/ Researcher finds 100K passwords, user IDs, on IEEE site A Danish graduate student said he was searching for research material on an IEEE FTP server last week when he stumbled upon the usernames and passwords of about 100,000 members of the professional association. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8247296/114916/583996/0/ 5 (more) key cloud security issues As we're adopting cloud computing, we're more aware of the security concerns it raises than we were of issues created by other large-scale technologies we adopted in the past. This is a wonderful thing! But security nirvana has yet not been achieved. 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