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[October 2006]

October SECURITY NEWS
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DATE: 10/30/2006

HEADLINE: City firms are not following security best practice

SUMMARY: "City firms in the Square Mile are not following IT best practice when it comes
to security passwords, according to research."

DATE: 10/27/06

HEADLINE: Information Security Means Better Business

Date: 10/31/06

HEADLINE: Protecting the Super Power Password in your organization

Summary: So who can have access to information, and why in spite of all the security that organisations have in their IT infrastructure is this still a daily occurrence? In a recent Cyber-Ark survey of large enterprises over 50% of organisations admitted to rarely if ever changing the passwords for shared accounts in their infrastructure.

Date: 10/30/2006

Headline: Hackers breach Ohio hospital's databases, obtain personal information of 240,000

Summary: An Ohio pediatric hospital is notifying patients and donors - totaling as many as 240,000 people - that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers.

Date: October 2006

Headline: Keeping Employees from Downloading Malicious Code

Summary: "Wherever there are computers that are hooked up to the Internet, the potential exists for employees to download malicious code — nearly every company is vulnerable. "