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	Apple Confirms Hack of its Developer Website   Apple on Sunday admitted that its developer website, which has been offline since Thursday, had been hacked and some information may have been stolen. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Prolexic Technologies     Average Packet-Per-Second Volume Increases 925% over Q2 2012   As the world's leading DDoS mitigation provider, Prolexic is ideally positioned to collect valuable data on the origins, tactics, types, and targets of these attacks and identify emerging trends. Through data forensics and post attack analysis, Prolexic is able to build a global view of DDoS attacks. Download the full DDoS attack report >>> In this Issue Canonical Takes Ubuntu Forums Offline in Wake of Password Breach U.S. High-Tech Industry Feeling the Heat From Edward Snowden Leaks UK to Probe Huawei's Cybersecurity Evaluation Center True Tales of (Mostly) White-Hat Hacking US Court Renews Permission to NSA to Collect Phone Metadata Top 20 Hack-Attack Tools License Plate Scanning: The Inside Story of a Cop Who Tracks our Data Foreign VPNs Raise the Bar Against U.S. Government Spying Researcher Finds Major Encryption Flaw in Older Mobile SIM Cards WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com     12 Smart Process App Vendors That Matter Most Today   Download the Forrester Research, Inc., Report to learn: - Why smart apps are the future of applications - Forrester's evaluation of 12 software vendors - Why Salesforce was cited as a leader within this category Read Now! Canonical Takes Ubuntu Forums Offline in Wake of Password Breach   As for now the breach doesn't seem malicious as much as it is pointing out a security flaw. Read More   U.S. High-Tech Industry Feeling the Heat From Edward Snowden Leaks   The disclosures about the National Security Agency's massive global surveillance by Edward Snowden, the former information-technology contractor who's now wanted by the U.S. government for treason, is hitting the U.S. high-tech industry hard as it tries to explain its involvement in the NSA data-collection program. Read More   UK to Probe Huawei's Cybersecurity Evaluation Center   Huawei said it supports the government review Read More   True Tales of (Mostly) White-Hat Hacking   Stings, penetration pwns, spy games -- it's all in a day's work along the thin gray line of IT security. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Truphone     Mission Critical: Controlling Global Mobile Roaming   Global connectivity and productivity is a major challenge for many CIO's. Most feel there is little they can do to alleviate the technical challenges of global connectivity and the associated cost of mobile roaming. Learn More US Court Renews Permission to NSA to Collect Phone Metadata   A disclosure that the government was collecting phone data from customers of Verizon has already generated controversy Read More   Top 20 Hack-Attack Tools   The Black Hat conference convening in Las Vegas to offer a variety of hacker tools. Read More   License Plate Scanning: The Inside Story of a Cop Who Tracks our Data   We talk to an Oakland, California stolen car investigator about how license plate scans are used to solve crimes. Read More   Foreign VPNs Raise the Bar Against U.S. Government Spying   Foreign virtual private networks can make snooping more difficult for the U.S. because the service providers are immune from the Patriot Act. Read More   Researcher Finds Major Encryption Flaw in Older Mobile SIM Cards   Hundreds of millions of mobile handsets using older SIM cards are vulnerable to a flaw that allows attackers to gain complete control over affected handsets, German security expert Karsten Nohl has reported. Read More
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