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 Season's Greetings

At this Holiday season our thoughts turn gratefully to those who have made our business possible. Best wishes for a joyful holiday season and a new year of health, happiness and success.

Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009

2009 has been a year full of data breaches, compromises and exposures all around cyber-criminality. As we enter a new year, we should look back at where we went wrong so we can learn how to avoid future data security breaches. The top ten biggest information security breaches and blunders of 2009 all have a common thread: they could have been avoided. Now is the time for everyone to take into account of all the malicious breaches and blunders that have happened in the last year alone, and take the time to reconfigure their network protection systems to prevent these mishaps from happening to them.

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ALERTS
FDIC Phishing Scam Strikes More Banks

For the second time in recent months, bank customers have been sent phishing emails purporting to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC).
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WEBCASTS

Battling New Age Thieves: 5 Ways to Stop Social Engineering Attacks

Join host Kevin Prince, Chief Technology Officer at Perimeter E-Security, as he covers the top 5 ways you can prevent these attacks, saving your organization and customers from the aggravation of data and identity theft.

Date: Tuesday December, 15 2009
Time: 2:00 pm

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Webcast Replay: 5 Regulatory, Security, and Financial Reasons Your Financial Institution Should Move to Hosted Email

Download this webcast to learn how hosted email can reduce costs and secure your communications and data, all while meeting current and future regulatory requirements.
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COMPANY UPDATES

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Product Updates PRODUCT UPDATES

New Services / Enhancements

Perimeter eSecurity's Product team is always working to improve services and enhance our customers' experience. Stay tuned each month to see updates on the services that you already subscribe to or might otherwise need as a part of your complete security solution!
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KNOWLEDGE
CENTER

Hear what our Experts have to say about pressing information security issues...
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SPECIAL OFFERS

WHITEPAPER:

Social Networking: The Growing Threat to Businesses and Individuals

Social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Myspace are growing at an alarming rate. Millions of users are joining each day and as these web sites continue to grow, attacks targeting their faithful users grow as well. These sites have become a dangerous venue for malevolent users to spread malware, steal identities, and even gain access to sensitive corporate data.

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INDUSTRY NEWS  Industry News

Five Tips to Help Retailers Reduce Risk Of Cyber Attacks For Holiday Season

Solutionary encourages Internet merchants to increase security measures in advance of holiday shopping season.

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Employees Willing To Steal Data; Companies On The Alert

Employees know it's illegal to steal company data, but they're prepared to do it anyway. Companies know their employees are a chief threat to their data, but most aren't doing much about it.

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Unisys identifies 10 of the most prevalent scams that can lead to financial fraud or identity theft during the holidays

As the holidays bring an increase in online shopping, charitable giving and social interaction, consumers and businesses should be on guard against some common scams...

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Latest Microsoft patches cause black screen of death

Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rendering the computer useless.

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China warns about return of destructive Panda virus

...It has gotten more complex with the addition of a rootkit…

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SSL VPN products from Cisco, Juniper Networks, SafeNet, and SonicWALL all vulnerable to attack that has "no solution"

The US-CERT has issued an advisory on a vulnerability in SSL VPN products that breaks basic browser security features, letting an attacker bypass authentication steps and wage other Web-based attacks.

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Cyber Breaches are kept a secret

For every break-in like the highly publicized attacks against TJX Co (TJX.N) and Heartland Payment (HPY.N), where hacker rings stole millions of credit card numbers, there are many more that never make the news.

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New study calls for cybersecurity overhaul in U.S.

Lots of groups have called for better information security education…

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Top five cloud computing adoption inhibitors

Gartner has identified what it believes are today’s top five most critical inhibitors to adoption and the common approaches to reducing the risks.

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Security pros generally happy with products; not so much with awareness programs

Malware and financial fraud were among the chief "growth threats" posed to businesses in 2009, according to a new study from the Computer Security Institute that will be published next week...Twenty-five percent of respondents stated the majority of their financial losses in the past year were due to nonmalicious actions by insiders.

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Find Microsoft Exchange Hosting To Keep Your Business Running

When you turn to Microsoft Exchange hosting, you are looking to a company which has set up Exchange databases that your business can link into. This should allow you to avoid all of the confusing set up which normally goes along with establishing a Microsoft Exchange system, as the hosting platform will take care of all of the work for you.

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Bank Phishing Attacks Snare Few Victims But Tally Major Damage

If you've ever wondered just how lucrative a phishing campaign against your bank can really be, then consider this: Phishers actually land a tiny percentage of victims, but the end result is big bucks — to the tune of $2.4 million to $9.4 million a year, according to a new study that measured real phishing attacks on banks.

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SPOTLIGHT ON HOSTED EMAIL  Spotlight

USA.NET Launches New Web Site!

USA.NET is excited to announce the launch of their new web site for www.usa.net. USA.NET collaborated with the marketing teams of parent company Perimeter E-Security and USA.NET to provide a more comprehensive source of company information and services. We have updated its look, feel and general navigation, improving the customer experience in many ways.

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