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U.S. urged to let companies 'hack-back' at IP cyber thieves

U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. read more »

Google to lengthen SSL encryption keys from August

Google plans to upgrade the security of its SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, an important component of secure communications. read more »

Could the Bitcoin network be used as an ultrasecure notary service?

Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money. read more »

Blue Coat Systems to acquire security analytics firm Solera Networks

Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera Networks, which uses data mining techniques to classify network traffic and detect potential security threats. read more »

LulzSec members sent to prison for infamous DDoS attacks

Four members of the infamous and largely British LulzSec hacking group that carried a string of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2011 have been handed relatively lenient prison terms of up to 32 months by the judge at Southwark Crown Court. read more »

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Adobe's first CSO: Hosted services security is top priority

Adobe Systems has appointed Brad Arkin, the company's senior director of security for products and services, to become its first CSO. With a mature product security program already in place, the top priorities for Adobe's new security chief are to strengthen the security of the company's hosted services and its internal infrastructure. read more »

Ten tips to win security programme funding

Ask any cyber security specialist what their biggest challenge is, and you will get a variety of answers -- ranging from strengthening network security, to managing internal threats, to protecting against cyber espionage. But upon further investigation, you may be surprised to learn that for manythe biggest challenge is simply getting the funding necessary to carry out a security programme. read more »

Security Manager's Journal: A little housecleaning

Our manager finds the time and opportunity to cross a few nagging items off of his to-do list. read more »

Three simple steps to determine risk tolerance

For Chief Information Security Offiers, in addition to deciding what policies, processes, or technology an organisation should have in place, an even more significant challenge is successfully negotiating disputed risk issues. read more »

Cyber confusion at the heart of Government

Last week the Conservative chairman of the Defence Select Committee took the extraordinary step of writing to the Government to blast its response to the Committee’s recent report on cyber security. James Arbuthnot said the Government exaggerated the amount of money going to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s Cyber and Influence Centre, was not acting quickly enough to secure military supply chains and were basically passing the civil cyber security buck. read more »

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