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Secret Contacts+ 1.0 for iOS
| by Berislav Kucan - Friday, 8 March 2013.
Secret Contacts+ enables you to manage a completely private contact list. You can either add new contacts or copy the ones from your current contact list. -
Wide Open Privacy: Strategies For The Digital Life
| by Mirko Zorz - Monday, 4 March 2013.
We live in a digital age where it's become normal to see people post photos of their credit cards online, parents share on Facebook images of their newborns right from the delivery room, and offenders bragging about their crimes by posting videos on YouTube.
Not everybody is so extreme, but the fact that a great number of social networking users keep over-sharing personal information points to a global privacy problem that's can't be easily solved. Wide Open Privacy aims to inform the reader and arm him with a plan for getting a grip on privacy. -
Advanced Persistent Threat
| by Zeljka Zorz - Thursday, 21 February 2013.
As more and more information becomes available and is stored in electronic form, the logical consequence is that APT actors will focus on breaching networks and systems on which it can be found. The goal of these attacks is simple, but the techniques the attackers use and the speed and determination with which they come up with new ones are enough to demoralize many infosec experts. This book aims to change their prospective and the rules by which the defense is playing. -
Windows 8 Inside Out
| by Mirko Zorz - Thursday, 14 February 2013.
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched Windows 8, he dubbed it a re-imagined operating system. When you introduce so many new features and a different UI, you're going to have a lot of people that will need to adjust. This is where a book like Windows 8 Inside Out comes in handy. -
Wireless Reconnaissance in Penetration Testing
| by Zeljka Zorz - Wednesday, 6 February 2013.
Reconnaissance should always be the first stage of a cyber attack or penetration test, and the success of these attempts is usually closely tied with the quality of information gathered during this phase. This book gives insight into the information that can be gathered from radio traffic between a number of wireless devices used by the target, and how that information can come in handy.
Spotlight

A closer look at Mega cloud storage
Posted on 21 May 2013. | Once a novelty, nowadays many cloud storage services are fighting for their piece of the market in the virtual world. Mega offers 50GB of free space with great pricing on Pro accounts.

The CSO perspective on healthcare security and compliance
Posted on 20 May 2013. | Randall Gamby is the CSO of the Medicaid Information Service Center of New York. In this interview he discusses healthcare security and compliance challenges and offers a variety of tips.

Cyber espionage campaign uses professionally-made malware
Posted on 20 May 2013. | A massive cyber espionage campaign has been hitting government ministries, IT companies, academic research institutions, and more.

Ransomware adds password stealing to its arsenal
Posted on 17 May 2013. | Microsoft researchers are warning about a new variant of the well-known Reveton ransomware doing rounds.

IT security jobs: What's in demand and how to meet it
Posted on 15 May 2013. | Let's say you want a career in information security, where do you start? What credentials do you need? What are employers looking for? Read on to find some answers.
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