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Apple has tightened account security to protect users from having their App Store accounts hijacked.......

White House Cybersecurity official Howard Schmidt says that the country's utilities need to actively and continuously identify security risks in their systems.......

According to an FBI cyber bulletin, an unnamed utility company in Puerto Rico was the target of attacks against smart meters, costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars.......

The US Army is finding itself without enough qualified IT staff to fill available positions.......

Reader Josh writes in with a good question: How does everyone deal with software whose vendor requires that the application and its install directories be excluded completely from Anti-Virus (AV) scanning ? Microsoft has some recommendations for AV exclusions of their own, as do the anti-virus companies themselves (example: McAfee), and googling a bit quickly shows that pretty much every software vendor has knowledge base articles that deal with making their particular tool invisible to AV.
- How do you keep track of the various approvedexclusions across servers in your company ?

- How do you make sure no malware is hiding or setting up shop in those excluded portions ?

- Any other comments you might have ..
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Twitter has filed a lawsuit against five defendants, accusing them of involvement with spam spreading through the microblogging network.......

Hackers believed to be based in Eastern Europe appear to have stolen personal information from a Utah Department of Technology Services server; the breach affects more than 180,000 people.......

A man who once worked at Intel designing Itanium processors has pleaded guilty to stealing confidential information from the company.......

Apple has released a second update to help protect users from the Flashback Trojan horse program.......