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Stories about: NSA

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    Server Virtualization: Top Five Security Concerns 14/05/2009 10:50:00

    In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently those worries have included social-networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook and other outlets through which employees could turn loose company confidential data. But the security of virtual servers and virtualized infrastructures also rank near the top of the list-and rightly so, according to analysts.
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    Obama administration said to consider military cyber command 23/04/2009 07:58:00

    The Obama administration is considering a new military cyber command for protecting US Department of Defense networks and developing offensive cyber war capabilities, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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    Federalizing Cybersecurity: Necessary or Nitwitted? 09/04/2009 09:14:00

    A cybersecurity bill may be filed in the U.S. Senate expanding government enforcement to the private sector. Security practitioners say more oversight of critical infrastructure wouldn't hurt. But anything more than that probably would
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    BLACK HAT - NSA guru lauds security intelligence sharing 02/08/2007 08:19:39

    US government initiatives aimed at fostering the sharing of security intelligence throughout the federal space are helping to establish the community atmosphere and best practices necessary to help those agencies -- and private enterprises -- improve their network and applications defenses, a National Security Agency leader told attendees of the Black Hat conference on Wednesday.
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    The best practices for network security in 2007 23/01/2007 16:25:34

    We all face it - the daily barrage of spam, now infested with zero-day malware attacks, not to mention the risks of malicious insiders, infected laptops coming and going behind our deep packet-inspecting firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems. Some even have to worry about how to prove steps of due care and due diligence towards a growing roster of regulatory compliance pressures.
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    NSA helped Microsoft make Vista secure 10/01/2007 13:25:17

    The U.S. agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of Microsoft's Vista operating system, Microsoft confirmed Tuesday.
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    IT Versus Terror 14/08/2006 12:15:31

    Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch, told the BBC that the surveillance involved in foiling the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes had been "unprecedented".
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    Building smarter authentication 03/08/2006 12:02:23

    Online scams that lure online banking and e-commerce customers to phony Web sites and trick them into giving up sensitive account information have been a mainstay of online criminals for years. However, the increase in so-called spear-phishing attacks is new, as is the increasing sophistication of the software they use to penetrate enterprise networks.
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    Americans Target of Massive Domestic Spying Network 27/06/2006 10:41:56

    As American angst over their government's massive domestic spying program soars, the Victorian Privacy Commissioner has warned responsible handling of personal information will increasingly require deft application of the "best custodian principle".
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    Security expert recommends 'Net diversity 31/05/2006 13:28:03

    Eugene Spafford, one of the leading experts on information security, is director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University. Network World Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan recently sat down with Spafford at his office to talk about the latest security threats and what network executives can do to mitigate them.
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    Card fraudsters set a cracking pace 30/05/2006 07:28:47

    Some 12 online credit card fraud networks are in operation today with active traders on some Web sites numbering between 7000 and 9000, according to a US Secret Service agent going by the name of Jake Jacobsen.
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