2011 State of the CSO
More budget? Perhaps a little. More attention from senior management? Yes, a bit. Better results? That's not so clear.
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Adobe rushes out patch for Flash zero day
Adobe’s security team is rushing to deploy a multiple operating system patch for a cross-site scripting Flash Player flaw that has reportedly been used in targeted attacks.
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Report: Yahoo, Tor, Mozilla, WordPress also hit by DigiNotar hack
Besides the fraudulent security certificates Dutch authority DigiNotar issued for Google.com, more were made for Yahoo.com, Mozilla.org, torproject.org, wordpress.org and an Iranian blogging platform, Baladin, according to a Dutch report.
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Staying alive after migrating to the cloud
Multi-tenant cloud providers might promise greater resiliency, ‘five nines’ uptime and better security than some in-house managed infrastructure, but organisations would be wise not to assume the provider has covered all bases.
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Mobile Malware and Cyber Warfare
Security analysts have been predicting the emergence of mobile malware for many years. In 2011, the criminals have finally come through by attacking Google's popular Android OS. Meanwhile, the sophistication of Stuxnet — anasty piece of code that infected a nuclear power facility — has alarmed researchers who believegovernments are stockpiling tools for cyberwar. Looking ahead, it seems a cataclysmic Cloud failure is just around the corner.