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Technology research and training organisation SANS Institute has appointed Shearwater Solutions, a provider of information security services, as its local representative in Australia and New Zealand. Three vulnerabilities in Cisco products are open to exploitation, warned the SANS Internet Storm Center. When news broke this week that Apple QuickTime contains a new and extremely dangerous flaw, it served as a perfect lead-in to today's unveiling of the latest SANS Top 20, which lists client-side vulnerabilities among the biggest threats facing end-users. Security firm Sans Institute is asking developers to volunteer for a new research project due to launch in the coming months. An aggressive, non-stop campaign by China to penetrate key government and industry databases in the United States already has succeeded and the United States urgently needs to monitor all internet traffic to critical government and private-sector networks “to find the enemy within,” SANS Institute Director of Research Alan Paller told SCMagazineUS.com. The opening ceremony for the much anticipated Beijing Olympic Games is only hours away and security experts have sent out an eleventh hour warning to internet users – ‘think twice before you click.’ Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) have discovered a utility that served as the foundation for a series of attacks that compromised thousands of websites and infected millions of users' PCs over the past several months. New data indicates that 98 out of 100 computer users are running at least one unpatched program. For possibly the first time ever, Apple is recommending Mac OS X users deploy anti-virus solutions -- but it remains unclear exactly why. Users are being advised to update their systems after the emergence of a new rash of attacks targeting a previously-patched flaw in Adobe Acrobat. Security experts are warning users of a high risk of phishing operations connected to Hurricane Gustav. The twisters and historic floods sweeping across the US will give rise to malicious attacks, the SANS Storm Center warned on Friday. A joint project with the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism is hoped to increase the cyberdefense capacity of developing countries. A fake email making the rounds seemingly comes from Microsoft, but actually contains a trojan. In an advisory, Cisco Systems notified users of 12 security patches to fix vulnerabilities in its Internet Operating System (IOS) Software and Unified Communications Manager.

The number of computers currently controlled by botnets has exploded in recent months, say researchers. Linux keys harvested by hackers. We can no longer pretend that information security is working in its current form. So let's change it. BigFix Enterprise Suite (BES) 7 is a series of client server and web-based components designed to assist with workstation/server configuration and vulnerability management. Security researchers are warning of a new round of SQL attacks being reported.