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Most notably, we witnessed the introduction of a potential major player in the intermediate- to senior-level: ISACA’s Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification.

In this semi-annual update to SearchSecurity’s certification landscape series, we introduce you to the many vendor-neutral security certifications available, and we re-evaluate the importance of several older elements, as you’ll read in part two.

This landscape features more security certifications than ever listed before — a total of 56, counting each GIAC credential.

While this article focuses on vendor-neutral certs, you can learn what is available by specific vendors in our accompanying article in this series.
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This month, a small startup called MagiQ Technologies Inc. began selling what appears to be the first commercially available system that uses individual photons to transfer the numeric keys that are widely used to encode and read secret documents.

Photons, discrete particles of energy, are so sensitive that if anyone tries to spy on their travel from one point to another, their behavior will change, tipping off the sender and recipient and invalidating the stolen code.

“There are really no ways (of) cracking this code,” said Lov Grover, a quantum computing researcher at Bell Laboratories who is not involved with MagiQ.

Called Navajo – a nod to the American Indian code specialists of World War II – MagiQ’s system consists of 19-inch black boxes that generate and read the signals over a fiber-optic line.

MagiQ (pronounced “magic,” with the “Q” for “quantum”) expects that with a cost of $50,000 to $100,000, Navajo will appeal to banks, insurers, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies and other organizations that transmit sensitive information.

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The intruders deployed unspecified hacking software at some of the stores, in once case crashing the point of sale terminals at a Lowe’s in Long Beach, California, according to the affidavit.

At some point, Lowe’s network administrators and security personnel detected and began monitoring the intrusions, and called in the FBI.

Last Friday evening a Bureau surveillance team staked out the Southfield Lowe’s parking lot, and spotted a white Grand Prix with suspicious antennas and two young men sitting inside.

Loveless says he’s noticed that at least some Lowe’s stores don’t take the basic precaution of turning on wi-fi’s standard encryption — called WEP — to declare their network off limits.

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This week we are dubiously celebrating the 20th birthday of the first release of the first computer virus. More info: [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3257165.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3257165.stm[/url]

As RedHat moved away from the individual user to concentrate on Enterprise, IBM is throwing it’s weight behind desktop Linux. Until now, IBM has favoured Linux for use on servers, which are networked machines for data storage and processing that typically are run by technically proficient administrators. The company has…

Any person or organization can be ordered to take measures to prevent computer attacks, which could jeopardize the city state’s defense, essential services, or foreign relations, according to a new amendment in the Computer Misuse Act.

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