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Having difficulty keeping track of all your online passwords? Here are some tools that may help you manage and make sense of the different passwords you have for your favorite social networking sites, blogs, phones, photos, games, documents, news, bank account, expenses, stores, books, and dozens of other services where a secure password is critical.
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From SECNAP Alerts:
One of the first discovered pieces of malware that could be considered a bootkit appears to have evolved, with new mechanisms that could allow it to slip past anti-virus solutions undetected. According to researchers, in recent months the malware identified as bootkit.MBR.Whistler.B has been seen infecting many master boot records due to its [...]

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Palo Alto Networks Announces Latest Next-Gen Firewall Offerings
Palo Alto Networks has recently announced their newest releases in platform, product and feature innovations that will continue to advance the enterprise firewall market. These enhancements and new products are Palo Alto Networks’ latest offerings in enterprise-wide next-generation network security.
The new PA-200 is a small form factor firewall [...]

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PayPal’s name and reputation are being abused by cybercriminals in the latest phishing expedition, one that’s ultimately designed to access user bank accounts.  The new scam masks itself as a notification coming from the PayPal Account Review Team, informing the customer about a credit card issue.  The message alerts potential victims that a certain credit [...]

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Microsoft has published code to temporarily blunt attacks against a software vulnerability exploited by Duqu, an advanced piece of malicious software still being closely analyzed by security researchers.
Microsoft is working on a patch for the vulnerability in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine, a component of various Windows operating systems. An attacker could exploit it [...]

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Facebook was recently invaded by a robot army, created by four researchers, to demonstrate the ease with which online social networks can be maliciously exploited by the unscrupulous. With a horde of 102 bogus Facebook friends, researchers at the University of British Columbia showed that they could harvest personal information about members that is not [...]

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Someone, somewhere could be talking about you or your company, and—depending on what’s being said—it can be either helpful or damaging to you or your business. This is of special concern in the online world, as the proliferation of websites and social media tools make it easy to share opinions with the world. In this [...]

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Google Chrome allows you the option to search within a specific site. First type the web address of the site you want to search in the address bar, and then press the “Tab” key.
If Google Chrome has a record of the site’s search engine, you’ll be offered the option to search within that site only. [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Hackers reportedly used an off-the-shelf computer attack created in China to compromise the computers of at least 48 companies, including in the chemical and defense industries — an attack described as being similar to the notorious Stuxnet virus, if not as severe.
The goal of the attacks, reported Monday by security software company Symantec, [...]

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For companies interested in trying out cloud-based services, email may be something worth trying. Here’s a breakdown of two options from two industry giants that may be worth considering.
Google Apps
Google Apps is a service from Google that started in 2006, with the introduction of Gmail—a hosted email service, and which later incorporated other apps such [...]

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