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It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us because, as I mentioned in the last newsletter, we’ve been busy! We’ve made a bunch of new hires and have been involved in some very interesting work. Our website is getting updated, and the first big change has already been made: we removed the requirement to register in order to download whitepapers and tools! We are also announcing the availability of our Facebook Consulting practice. Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions!
Peter Hesse
Founder, Gemini Security Solutions, Inc.
pmhesse@geminisecurity.com
PS. If this was forwarded to you, you can sign up to receive the Constellation newsletter at http://geminisecurity.com/constellation.
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| What’s Happening in Information Security |
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FISMA Changes
The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is undergoing some changes and is facing noticible challenges, not the least of which was NASA announcing they were moving away from certification & accreditation entirely. Ben Tomhave describes the coming FISMA evolution / revolution.
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Facebook Privacy
Facebook has been facing a backlash as they have continued to change their privacy policies against the will (and in many cases, without the knowledge) of many of its users. They recently deployed a new set of privacy controls discussed by SC magazine with a quote from our own Joey Tyson. We linked a video walkthrough of configuring your settings to maximize your Facebook privacy.
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| Tips & Tricks: Hardening Adobe Reader |
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Adobe Reader is increasingly the most common attack vector against PCs. Reader is very widely deployed and is required for many processes and applications that use the PDF format. Rather than give up on it entirely, Joey Tyson posted a simple set of instructions for hardening Adobe Reader against the most common attacks.
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