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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

RSA: Cybercriminals keeping up with banking safeguards

Dan Kaplan April 22, 2009

Threats are becoming more sophisticated, and cybercriminals are getting smarter at evading new authentication controls, according to an RSA Conference panel of security practitioners representing three major financial institutions.
 

Trustwave branches out into application pen-testing

Richard Thurston May 26, 2008

The security services company is to try to help enterprises protect their web-based apps from attacks like SQL injection, buffer overflow and cross-site scripting
 

Firebrand launches disaster recovery training

Richard Thurston May 19, 2008

How to prepare a disaster recovery plan and DR policy plus how to assess risks are among the topics taught at a residential training course aimed at security professionals
 

Mobile/Endpoint Security

Encryption protecting most mobile phones cracked

Angela Moscoritolo January 04, 2010

Computer security researchers say they have cracked the encryption algorithm used to protect most cell phone communications, potentially allowing attackers to listen in on the calls of billions of individuals.
 

Mac Trojan targets game sites to infect users

Dan Kaplan June 22, 2009

Virus researchers have spotted a new variant of a Mac trojan that attempts to change a victim computer's DNS settings.
 

URL shortening site hacked to redirect millions of links

Chuck Miller June 17, 2009

The Cligs URL shortening site was hacked during the weekend to cause 2.2 million links to redirect to the same site.
 

Patch Management

Microsoft to deliver 13 security patches for 26 bugs

Dan Kaplan February 08, 2010

After a quiet January Patch Tuesday that saw only one security update, Microsoft is back with a vengeance this month.
 

IIS issue not a new vulnerability, says Microsoft

Dan Kaplan January 04, 2010

Microsoft has shot down reports that its Internet Information Services (IIS) suffers from a vulnerability, saying that customers only need to worry if they are running a nondefault configuration of the web server.
 

Microsoft patch batch includes fix for zero-day IE flaw

Dan Kaplan December 09, 2009

Microsoft delivered its monthly security update on Tuesday to rectify 12 vulnerabilities, five of which are present in Internet Explorer (IE) and comprise the most pressing patch to deploy.
 

Compliance

Visa confirms another payment processor breach

Dan Kaplan February 24, 2009

Another payment processor has fallen victim to hackers, Visa confirmed on Monday.
 

HMRC breach would have been avoided for just £15,000

Richard Thurston July 03, 2008

The catastrophic loss of information of 25 million UK citizens last year would have been avoided if Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs had spent a maximum of £15,000 on the extraction of data, but it turned down this expenditure because information security was such a low priority, one of the breach investigators revealed today
 

Data watchdog admits to deluge of Central Government breach info

Richard Thurston July 03, 2008

The Information Commmissioner's Office has revealed it has been voluntarily informed of a huge number of security breaches - mostly in Westminster - while it eyes up plans for a new law which could make the reporting of such incidents compulsory
 
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