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1)
Council social engineering test exposes flaws
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Council_social_engineering_test_exposes_flaws/0,130061744,339271857,00.htm>
Kingston City Council in Victoria recently conducted a social
engineering experiment to see how its staff would react to a stranger
trying to gain access to the server room; the exercise revealed, and
helped fix, serious flaws in staff awareness.
Analyst firm Gartner defines social engineering as "the manipulation
of people, rather than machines, to successfully breach the security
systems of an enterprise or a consumer". This could mean persuading a
user to click on a link or open an attachment or, in the case of
Kingston Council's experiment, allowing a stranger into their server
room.

2)
Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
http://news.com.com/Florida+man+charged+in+botnet+attack+on+Akamai/2100-7350_3-6129226.html
A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed
denial-of-service attack against servers run by Akamai Technologies.

3)
Business data breaches found to be more costly than thought
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35328
A new study reports that data breaches may cost companies even more than
previously thought. The Ponemon Institute released its annual study on
the cost of data breaches and found that they cost companies on average
$182 per compromised record.

4)
BT Buys Security Specialist Counterpane
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4287219.html
SAN JOSE, Calif.  BT Group PLC, the former British telecom monopoly,
said Wednesday it bought Silicon Valley-based Counterpane Internet
Security Inc. to boost its computer security services for corporate
customers.


5)
Network security firm files for IPO
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.sourcefire26oct26,0,2605522.story?coll=bal-business-headlines>
Sourcefire Inc., the Columbia network security company that started in
its founder's living room and has since grown to a 174-person business,
said yesterday that it plans to go public.
The company - best known for its anti-hacker technology, Snort - filed a
registration statement late yesterday afternoon with the Securities and
Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.

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