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  Beware Of The 'Checklist' Penetration Tester

  By Vincent Liu

  A surefire way to spot a novice

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  Much Ado About PushDo

  By Gunter Ollmann

  We don't need a stretcher -- we need a mop

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  Rethinking Identity Management

  By Tim Wilson

  Secret identities are a good thing. Multiple identities? Not so much

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  Security War Games

  By David Schwartzberg- Sophos

  Information security keeps evolving, but our educational methods are not evolving rapidly enough to win the cold cyberwar

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  Know Your Pen Tester: The Novice

  By Vincent Liu

  Beware of the tool-obsessed pen-tester

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  Use A Human Trust Model For Endpoints

  By Tim Rohrbaugh

  Use anthropomorphic references to engage your brain and strengthen your approach to security

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  The Dragon In The Room

  By Kelly Jackson Higgins

  China, China, China

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  I Think We're All Botnets On This Bus

  By Wendy Nather

  How many undercover researchers can fit under one cover?

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Best of the Web

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• Focused Black Hat 2013 Trainings Focus On Incident Response, Malware

  Infosec trainings aim to provide needed skills to properly respond to incidents large and small

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• BIOS Bummer: New Malware Can Bypass BIOS Security

  Researchers expect to release proofs-of-concept at Black Hat that show how malware can infect BIOS, persist past updates, and fool the TPM into thinking everything's fine

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• Google Upgrades Encryption In Its SSL Certificates

  RSA 2048-bit encryption for all Google SSL certs, root certificate

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• DHS Warns Employees Of Potential Breach Of Private Data

  A vulnerability in software used by a DHS vendor potentially exposed information ranging from Social Security numbers to names and birthdays

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Quick Hits

• Security Pros Fail In Business Lingo

  Survey shows communication breakdown between IT security staffers and business execs

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• Twitter Adds SMS As Second Factor Of Authentication

  Phone will be second means of verifying user identity, Twitter says

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