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January, 2012 No. 70: January Edition

  

news

Cyber Attacks in Canada Are on the Rise. Here's How to Protect Yourself   [+]


Adobe Acrobat and Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities   [+]


Hackers Hackers Everywhere, Is My Public Cloud That Safe?   [+]


24 million customer accounts hacked at Amazon's Zappos: - Online shoe retailer   [+]





Bugs & Patches

Microsoft Patches for Jan 2012   [+]


Adobe Reader and Acrobat patches   [+]


Firefox 9.0.1 update   [+]


Thunderbird e-mail client 3.1.17   [+]


Java updates   [+]



Events

Security Threats 2012: Secure & Empower Today's Enterprise
January 23 - 25, 2012
Washington, DC   [+]


Sans Monterey
January 30 - February 4, 2012
Washington, DC   [+]


13th Annual Privacy and Security Conference: Keeping Pace with the Digital Revolution
February 16 - 17, 2011
Victoria, BC   [+]


Atlantic Security Conference
March 1 - 2, 2012
Halifax, NS    [+]


Sans 2012
March 23 - 30, 2012
Orlando, FL    [+]




Intro

Welcome to 2012. I trust everyone had some time to relax, recharge, reflect, recoup, regroup, recover, rejoice … you get the idea. Looking back over the past year a trend we've noticed within Contego is the distinct increase of management engagements for comprehensive network access control, including wi-fi access. I believe we'll shortly feature NAC and wi-fi security in upcoming Contego Spotlights. For this edition of BTFW, we're featuring Stephen Northcutt's Emerging Trends in IT and Security 2012 – 2014. I always enjoy Stephen's predations and I'm sure that they'll give you something to think about too. Thank you again for your interest in Contego. We look forward to the opportunity of assisting you in 2012. As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me.


- Will Raeside



Spotlight

Stephen Northcutt's Emerging Trends in IT and Security 2012 - 2014

3D Printers. Will begin to do to sculpture what giclees did to painting.

Anonymous takes it to the next level. It may be by a different name, lulzsec, Antisec, or whatever, but a worldwide, skilled, interconnected, hacktivist group will make their past exploits, which are already impressive, look like child's play. Don't believe me? Just ask Stratfor, the California Police Union, Specialforces.com, Westboro Baptist, Sony, or NATO for starters.

Gambling. NADEX filed to allow binary options on the upcoming presidential election, but Business Insider says the CFTC is icing the proposal for 90 days. Binary options would pay $100 if you win, $0 if you don't, so it feels like gambling. It looks like online gambling will be legal in the United States in 2012. While Harvard Medical School has released a report that gambling is not increasing, I have a contrarian prediction: gambling will increase worldwide, with a significant part of the growth based on mobile apps.

Geolocation records used inappropriately. You load an app on your mobile device and it uses GPS, location of 802.11 etc., to determine your position and phones that data home. Sometime soon, probably in the elections, you are going to see geolocation records used to discredit some politician showing they went to some seedy location. This will be 2012's version of the video rental records used to discredit Robert Bork, a Supreme Court nominee, and will cause Congress to pass a law similar to the Video Privacy Protection Act.

Read more here...
Stephen's article was sponsored by SANS.org's emerging trend conference SANS Security West May 10 - 18, 2012 San Diego




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