Best Buy customers part of Epsilon breach

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	Best Buy customers part of Epsilon breach Retailer Best Buy today told customers that files containing the "'email addresses of some Best Buy customers were accessed without authorization" due to a data breach at marketing firm Epsilon. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Security: A Multilayered Approach The resources in this Security KnowledgeVault provide expert advice on everything from creating a multilayered security strategy and deploying a more proactive fight against cybercrime, to realizing when it's time to stop going it alone and seek outside, expert help. Learn more. In this Issue Backup Disasters: How You Can Avoid Them EMC/RSA acquires electronic threat detection firm NetWitness Hacked: Xbox LIVE Banhammer Stepto Gets Jacked RSA Reveals More Details About Its Security Breach Expect targeted attacks after massive Epsilon email breach, say experts Attacks on the foundation of our industry Grand jury investigation targets smartphone privacy Bank of America to further ramp up security with new CISO WHITE PAPER: Dell Elements of a Proactive Data Security Solution See all the survey results along with more data security resources, including an expert Webcast outlining six vital security steps, in the security KnowledgeVault. Learn more. Backup Disasters: How You Can Avoid Them Even those of you religious about backing up your PC data may face a few of the same demons that CIO.com's Bill Snyder recently battled. Read on for advice on how to make sure your backups don't behave badly. Read More EMC/RSA acquires electronic threat detection firm NetWitness EMC Corp. today announced it has acquired NetWitness Corp., security company that makes the NextGen visibility monitoring system to detect electronic threats and malware-based attacks. EMC said NetWitness will operate as part of RSA. Read More WHITE PAPER: Zetta The Urgency of Recovery and Restore Data protection is challenging, but the true test is at recovery and restore. Problems may arise from not having data protection versioning or not enough RPO granularity to significant data protection errors and no automated way to catch them. This independent white paper will help you take the pain out of data protection, recovery and restore. Read More >> Hacked: Xbox LIVE Banhammer Stepto Gets Jacked What happens after being banned 35 times from Xbox LIVE? Well in one case of "payback" this weekend, a hacker social engineered his way into taking over the Xbox LIVE account and the website of Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse, the top cop and ultimate banhammer for Xbox LIVE. According to RipTen, Stepto "doesn't have as much control and power over the infamous ban-hammer as he would like." Read More RSA Reveals More Details About Its Security Breach On Friday, RSA Security held an analyst conference to provide more details on the recent security breach and subsequent investigation. RSA provided a bit more detail on the "Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT), the actual root cause of the security breach. Apparently, cyber criminals did a lot of intelligence gathering on specific RSA employees. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Malware is Everywhere Get up to speed on the proliferation of security issues and hear about new techniques that combine IBM Rational AppScan and Internet Security Systems (ISS) technologies to scan and identify unwanted, embedded malware. View Now Expect targeted attacks after massive Epsilon email breach, say experts Security experts today warned users to watch for targeted email attacks after a breach at a major marketing firm that may have put millions of addresses in the hands of hackers and scammers. Read More Attacks on the foundation of our industry In the two weeks since my last column, the security industry has been rocked by several extremely serious attacks against some of our fundamental pillars of trust: two-factor authentication (RSA SecurID) and SSL certificates (Comodo).  Read More Grand jury investigation targets smartphone privacy Pandora and possibly other makers of popular smartphone applications are being questioned by a federal grand jury about their privacy practices. Read More Bank of America to further ramp up security with new CISO Bank of America has hired a new CISO as it continues its effort to bolster security after WikiLeaks claimed to have obtained sensitive internal documents from an unnamed major U.S. bank. Read More
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