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Monday September 12, 2011

EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

The increasingly common practice of substituting numbers for letters in passwords may make the passwords hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess, iTnews' resident security guru Darren Pauli finds.

We also bring you advice for dealing with Advanced Persistent Threats and a postmortem of the attack on Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar.

-- Liz Tay

LATEST SECURITY ARTICLES

	Analysis: Good passw0rd security By Darren Pauli \| Sep 12, 2011 Who does your password lock out?
	Advanced persistent threats call for a reality check By Sean Martin, founder, imsmartin consulting \| Sep 12, 2011 Comment: Security professionals must understand threats before seeking vendor advice.
	Microsoft, Adobe announce forthcoming patches By Angela Moscaritolo \| Sep 12, 2011 'Important' Patch Tuesday bulletins from Microsoft and 'critical' updates from Adobe.
	DigiNotar investigators uncover woeful security By Darren Pauli \| Sep 12, 2011 Certificate authority found to lack basic security controls.
	British health service criticised for data breach By SC Staff \| Sep 12, 2011 Memory stick forgotten.
	Sony recruits IT security boss By Staff Writer \| Sep 7, 2011 Formerly of Homeland Security and Microsoft.
	Apple hunts for 'unreleased products' security guards By Liam Tung \| Sep 7, 2011 Lost prototypes spur Apple jobs growth.

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