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  Security Needs More Designers, Not Architects

  By Rich Mogull

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  0-Day The (Bug) Bounty Hunter

  By Mike Rothman

  Companies increasingly offer bug bounties to help find vulnerabilities and threats. This is an opportunity for those looking to get into security

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  Letter Of (Cyber) Marque And Reprisal

  By Gunter Ollmann

  Facilitating future 'hack back' programs

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  Why Database Assessment?

  By Adrian Lane

  How FIS bungled the basics

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  Putting Vulnerabilities And Threats Into Context

  By Mike Rothman

  Advanced security research should play a role in your security program and be ready when science projects become weaponized attacks

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  What To Ask Your Penetration Tester

  By Vincent Liu

  The importance of manual pen testing

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  DoS-in Your Database

  By Adrian Lane

  The re-emergence of database denial-of-service attacks

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  Building An Effective Security Architecture: No Piece Of Cake

  By Tim Wilson

  Enterprises need to put more thought, fewer products into their cyberdefense strategies

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Products & Releases

• SearchYourCloud Broadens Security And Search Capability To Android And Google Drive

• Frost & Sullivan: Further Progress In M2M Toward Internet Of Things Requires A Focus On Security Risks

• DeepCover Secure Authenticator From Maxim Integrated Protects Designs With Strong Public-Key Cryptography

• Armadillo Adds Data Classification Capability With Boldon James Partnership

• Lieberman Software Launches First Security-As-A-Service PIM Platform

• EiQ Networks Announces ThreatVue

• Cloud Security Corporation Files U.S. Patent Application for One-Time Password System And Methods On A Mobile Computing Device

• ESET Releases ESET NOD32 Antivirus 7 And ESET Smart Security 7 In BETA

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Best of the Web

• Vast array of medical devices vulnerable to serious hacks, feds warn
• Officials: Edward Snowden took NSA secrets on thumb drive
• CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer
• Content Security Policy 1.0 Lands In Firefox
• iPhones can auto-connect to rogue Wi-Fi networks, researchers warn

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• CrowdStrike Falcon Traces Attacks Back To Hackers

  Startup that encourages playing offense on security launches cloud-based service to help businesses identify adversaries, mitigate attacks, and pursue responses

• Beware Of HTML5 Development Risks

  Local storage, native resource rights, and third-party code all add greater functionality and higher risk to HTML5 applications

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• Slide Show: 10 Ways Attackers Automate Malware Production

  Peeking into an attacker's toolbox to see how malware production is automated and the Internet is flooded with millions of unique malware applications

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• Apple, Facebook, Microsoft Detail Surveillance Requests

  Newly published information details the total number of government surveillance requests received; Google abstains, citing "a step back for users"

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Quick Hits

• Survey: Customers Expect To Be Asked, Compensated For Use Of Personal Data

  Consumers recognize value of personal info, expect "identity etiquette," survey says

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• NTT To Acquire Solutionary, Add Cloud Security Services

  Pure-play managed security services provider Solutionary will become part of NTT's cloud portfolio

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