Computerworld Security: January 13, 2010
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Hacking risks persist even if firms leave China
Google and other enterprises still face a bleak computer security landscape that
makes their companies vulnerable to hackers, whether they do business in China
or not, analysts say.
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IN THIS ISSUE
1. Google attack part of widespread spying effort
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253653/0/
2. Google hack raises serious concerns, US says
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253654/0/
3. Update: Google seeks to reassure business users after attacks
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253655/0/
4. Update: Google may pull out of China because of cyberattacks
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253656/0/
5. Adobe patches PDF zero-day, other critical bugs
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253657/0/
6. Mobile malware will test Android and iPhone
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253658/0/
7. Skip Microsoft's critical patch, focus on Adobe's, experts urge
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253659/0/
8. Clearing The Cloud 3: Some Security What-ifs
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253660/0/
9. Opinion: IT's 5 big security mistakes
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253661/0/
10. Microsoft prods XP users to upgrade Flash Player
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253662/0/
11. Amir Lev: Snarky replies to spammers and scammers
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253663/0/
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1. The Commercialization of ITIL: Lessons Learned
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2. The Business Case for Virtualization
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Google attack part of widespread spying effort
Google's decision Tuesday to risk walking away from the world's largest Internet
market may have come as a shock, but security experts see it as the most public
admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing corporate espionage
originating from China.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253653/0/
Google hack raises serious concerns, US says
A coordinated hacking campaign targeting Google, Adobe Systems and more than 30
other companies raises serious concerns, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
said Tuesday.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253654/0/
Update: Google seeks to reassure business users after attacks
Google moved quickly on Tuesday to reassure its enterprise customers that their
data is in safe hands, following its disclosure that it was targeted in December
by a "highly sophisticated" cyberattack from China.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253655/0/
Update: Google may pull out of China because of cyberattacks
Google has decided to stop censoring its results in China and could end up
closing its operations and shutting down its search engine there, the company
said Tuesday.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253656/0/
Adobe patches PDF zero-day, other critical bugs
Adobe patched eight security vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in its
popular PDF viewing and editing programs.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253657/0/
Mobile malware will test Android and iPhone
2009 ushered in mobile malware with the first (and second) iPhone worm appearing
just before Christmas. I strongly suspect that 2010 will be a pivotal year in
the development of mobile malware. Smartphone software platforms and devices
have become sophisticated and flexible enough to allow self-propagating malware
and in a world where 9-year-olds are seen holding BlackBerries, the exposure
surface is certainly big enough.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253658/0/
Skip Microsoft's critical patch, focus on Adobe's, experts urge
Microsoft today issued just one security update for Windows, the lowest number
on a Patch Tuesday since January 2009, and security experts advised users to
focus first on updates coming from Adobe.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253659/0/
Clearing The Cloud 3: Some Security What-ifs
Security expert Ariel Silverstone continues his series on the threats facing the
cloud and how best to secure it.
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Opinion: IT's 5 big security mistakes
We've always been terrible in IT about learning from our mistakes. This year,
let's do better so we don't keep repeating them.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253661/0/
Microsoft prods XP users to upgrade Flash Player
Microsoft today confirmed that the version of Flash bundled with Windows XP
contains multiple bugs, and urged customers to upgrade to a newer edition of the
multimedia player plug-in.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6070753/644394564/253662/0/
Amir Lev: Snarky replies to spammers and scammers
This week on Security Levity, how some internet users are fighting back against
scam artists. This is a followup to two of my previous blog posts: about
Nigerian 419 scams and Chinese domain registration fraud.
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