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Top-of-mind IT security problems are bad enough. Finding the right sources of information to help rectify them can be tougher.

So to make the busy IT security executive's job easier, we've aggregated all our feature and news articles, white papers, webinars, podcasts and more into SC Magazine's Featured Sectors.

By conveniently divvying our objective editorial offerings into today's most pressing IT security-related matters, you can quickly peruse the most up-to-date news and in-depth features that include the latest discussions and controversies, as well as hear from the industry's thought leaders.

Launching with five categories, eventually we will expand these groupings as you, our readers, demand. With new content being continually added to these sections, SC is keeping apprised of the latest IT security issues so you can, too... it just starts with a click on one of our five Featured

IT Security Training

NSA's website outage due to lack of topological "diversity"'

Jim Carr May 16, 2008

An easy-to-fix -- but often overlooked -- problem most likely took the National Security Agency's website and its mail services down for six or seven hours on Thursday.
 

Ten universities join information assurance program

Dan Kaplan May 15, 2008

The National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday announced that 10 new colleges have been designated National Centers of Academic Excellence in information assurance.
 

From Interop: Be mindful of vendors' motives

Dan Kaplan April 30, 2008

IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.
 

Mobile/Endpoint Security

Startup offers solution to "cold boot" hack

Jim Carr May 14, 2008

A startup vendor of security software says it has a solution to the so-called "cold boot" encryption vulnerability uncovered by a team of Princeton researchers in February.
 

From Interop: Be mindful of vendors' motives

Dan Kaplan April 30, 2008

IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.
 

From Interop: Securing Wi-Fi must be priority

Dan Kaplan April 29, 2008

As the use of Wi-Fi by businesses becomes more pervasive, IT departments must rethink their wireless security strategy to combat threats, a panel said Tuesday at the Interop conference in Las Vegas.
 

Patch Management

Microsoft investigates new Internet Explorer zero-day

Dan Kaplan May 16, 2008

A security researcher said he has located a zero-day vulnerability in a printing feature on Internet Explorer that could allow remote attackers to execute malicious code.
 

In May Patch Tuesday round, Microsoft fixes six flaws

Jim Carr May 13, 2008

Microsoft fixed six vulnerabilities, three of them rated critical, with four patches in its May Patch Tuesday round this week.
 

Poorly implemented sites blamed for latest malware infection

Greg Masters May 13, 2008

Half a million websites have been infected with a new round of malware attack and poorly implemented website configurations have been blamed.
 

Compliance

PCI standard version 1.2 expected out in October

Dan Kaplan May 15, 2008

The organization charged with directing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) announced the second version of the credit card protection guidelines is scheduled for an October release.
 

Medical data breaches on the rise

Sue Marquette Poremba May 14, 2008

Despite HIPAA privacy laws, data breaches are not only becoming more common within the medical community, hospitals and medical centers are slow to report the breaches to patients.
 

Massive hacker server discovered

Chuck Miller May 06, 2008

Security researchers recently found a server being used to harvest private information consisting of stolen data from 40 international businesses, as well as health-related information on patients worldwide.
 

Email Security

Asprox botnet malware morphs

Sue Marquette Poremba May 15, 2008

The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks.
 

MySpace wins major spam judgment

Greg Masters May 14, 2008

If the law can ever find him, the spam king owes $223 million to the popular social networking site MySpace.
 

In May Patch Tuesday round, Microsoft fixes six flaws

Jim Carr May 13, 2008

Microsoft fixed six vulnerabilities, three of them rated critical, with four patches in its May Patch Tuesday round this week.
 
 
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