According to Michael Spohn of McAfee Foundstone Professional Services, the top 10 most common mistakes done by incident responders can be easily corrected. In fact, he compiled a list so that organizations can use it as a gauge of the effectiveness of their current incident response practices. Michael has vast experience in incident handling activities and he is a principal security consultant at McAfee Foundstone, Download Michael's paper from here - http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white-papers/foundstone/wp-10-common-mistakes-incident-responders.pdf
Amazon customers can now launch an EC2 High I/O Quadruple Extra Large (hi1.4xlarge in the EC2 API) instance. This I/O beast consists of 8 virtual cores, clocking in at a total of 35 ECU (EC2 Compute Units), HVM and PVM virtualization, 60.5 GB of RAM, 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with support for cluster placement groups, and 2 TB of local SSD-backed storage, visible to you as a pair of 1 TB volumes. The SSD storage is local to the instance. Read more here - http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/07/new-high-io-ec2-instance-type-hi14xlarge.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29
Days after Trend Micro, a global leader in antivirus solutions broke the news of a fake Skype malware app for Android devices, Microsoft acknowledges the existence of the malware and releases an alert notification on its Malware Protection Center website. It urges users of Android phones to install security software or download the latest updates for those who already have a solution. Read more about the fake Skype app here - http://www.itinfomag.com/cyber-attacks/increasing-number-of-malicious-apps-for-android-devices/ The Trojan that affects mobile devices with Java Platform Micro Edition support, such as those running the Symbian operating system by tricking users into downloading potential malicious apps into the device, and into sending multiple SMS messages to premium numbers, incurring cost to the phone user. Read Microsoft's notification here - http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Trojan:Java/SMSFakeSky.A
The Office Mobile application suite includes Microsoft Office Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.5 powered devices, helping users manage and review documents. Microsoft Office Mobile includes support for rich reviewing and minor editing capabilities as well as support for rights-managed documents. Download the files appropriate for you from here - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29981
Authorities are investigating whether Mitt Romney's private email account was hacked, his presidential campaign stated. It was reported that an unnamed hacker had broken into the Republican private Hotmail account by guessing the answer to a security question about Mr. Romney's favorite pet. Read the full story here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9312904/Mitt-Romneys-private-email-account-hacked.html