http://www.globalcep.comGlobal Cep News RSS!60http://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=1http://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=1European Union minsters have told EU governing bodies to revive plans to create a pan-EU law criminalising intellectual property infringement, and to make more use of a new body to cooperate on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.They have also asked the European Commission to create new laws if cooperation does not work.The Competitiveness Council, which is part of the EU Council of Ministers, has published a Resolution on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. It says that the European Commission should consider reviving a previously-proposed and much-amended Directive that sought to harmonise criminal sanctions for IP infringement across Europe.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:44:00 GMThttp://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=2http://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=2With arrested Indian Mujahideen cadres unveiling fresh terror plans of the ISI-LeT combine to target metropolitan cities here, the home ministry has issued alerts to Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata seeking a security beef-up at all vulnerable spots.The alerts, issued in the wake of disclosures made by Indian Mujahideen terrorist Salman Ahmed arrested recently from Sidharthnagar on the UP-Nepal border and suspected in serial blasts at Ahmedabad, Varanasi and Gorakhpur ask the governments of Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal to take all possible steps to foil any bids by terrorist outfits to strike in the aforesaid cities. Though an MHA official clarified that the alerts were not really based on specific and verified threats, he said the agencies are not taking any chances on whatever information we have received. Meanwhile, there are fresh inputs about attempts by terrorists to storm the airports at peak hours to inflict maximum damage. They (terrorists) may now try to attack the airports at peak hours from the frontal side so that they are able to inflict maximum damage...it is for this reason we have got deployed on the city side at bigger airports, CISF additional director-general (airport sector) M S Bali told reporters here on Monday.As for the threat of fresh attacks being mounted by IM cadres, arrested cadre Salman, during his interrogation, confessed that the Indian Mujahideen cadres were being used for ISI-Lashker s Karachi project. The Karachi project involves recruitment of Indians by local terror kingpins, sending them across to Pakistan for terror training and then pushing them back into India to launch terror attacks here.According to MHA sources, the IM cadres were travelling between India and Pakistan often via a third country. The preferred routes were through Nepal, Bangladesh, Dubai or the other west Asian nations, simply because they reduced the risk of the IM cadres being intercepted while infiltrating or exfiltrating. Salman, hailing from Sanjarpur village in UP s Azamgarh district, too had a Nepali passport and had returned from Pakistan in January after his terror training there. An active member of IM, Salman carried a Rs 1 lakh reward on his head. During his interrogation following his arrest, he disclosed that the masterminds of the Karachi Project are keen on engineering serial bomb attacks in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.The cells tasked with executing this plan have been instructed to target foreigners, he revealed. Salman provided details of the training he received at an ISI-run facility in the Karachi region. Amir Raza Khan, convenor of the Karachi Project, and the Bhatkal brothers, Riyaz and Iqbal, were in charge. He saw other Indian youth there, who had travelled to Karachi via Dubai.All of Salman s revelations tally with the statement of another Indian Mujahideen jihadi recruited for the Karachi Project, Khwaja Amjad of Hyderabad. After he was arrested, Amjad told police that IM commanders in Karachi were under pressure from the ISI-Lashkar bosses to organise fresh terror attacks. Salman was instructed to re-activate the IM cells which have gone dormant since the crackdown on the gang in 2008. As part of the Karachi Project, unveiled by American terror suspect David Coleman Headley during his interrogation by the FBI, the IM fugitives have been provided with houses. They are given funds to draw youth from India who are trained in the use of arms and explosives by LeT commanders as well as officers of Pakistan army, both retired and serving.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:41:00 GMThttp://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=3http://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=3As enterprises continue to produce, store, and make use of business content, volume grows and the investment needed to manage complexity increases. Yet much of this content remains difficult to manage and access. Fulcrum Research claims that 80% of enterprise content is unstructured (stored in things like Word docs and .pdfs, as opposed to structured data bases, CRM systems, etc.), and Forrester Research asserts that content volume is growing at a rate of 200% annually. At this rate, the volume of data stored in many organizations may measurably reach the point of too much information in other words, where the levels of information actually interfere with productivity rather than contribute to it. For many organizations, it s already happening and it s burdening IT resources and complicating what most knowledge workers need to do to find, and work with, business information.Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:52:00 GMThttp://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=4http://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=4Midmarket companies have been very slow to adopt multifactor authentication, such as one-time password (OTP) tokens, smart cards and biometrics to protect access to sensitive information, although almost everyone agrees that passwords are flawed authentication protections.Beyond the actual product purchase, smaller companies have to commit scarce IT resources to implementation or pay the vendor or IT solution provider to handle the job.In this tip, we'll examine some of the key considerations that go into the decision to adopt multifactor authentication.Perform a two-factor authentication cost, risk analysisTake stock of what information may require additional protection and who needs access to it.The process doesn't necessarily call for an exhaustive and seemingly endless data classification project, but you should be able to identify what is of potential value to thieves or subject to data breach notification laws and other compliance mandates, such as PCI DSS and HIPAA.This could be company financial reports, confidential corporate information, patient health data, personnel and customer records or credentials for managers and employees who have access to corporate bank accounts. Hackers often use social engineering and spear phishing tactics to get usernames and passwords of privileged users."The question is: Do you have stuff sitting around that's attractive," said Bill Nagel, security analyst for Forrester Research Inc. "Are you likely to be a victim of one of the increasingly more narrowly targeted attacks?" There have been a number of recent cases, for example, in which hundreds of thousands of dollars have been stolen from small business accounts after the thieves nabbed user credentials. It's hard to see how thieves could have succeeded if they needed additional authentication, such as an OTP token.The good news is that, in most cases, you will only roll out multifactor authentication for a limited number of users, typically those who have access to confidential data and company accounts."Know where data is going and how it is being accessed," said Tom Olzak, director of information security at Ohio-based healthcare provider HCR Manor Care Inc. and a frequent writer on information security issues. "Multifactor authentication doesn't have to go to everybody, just users who present the highest risk."Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:42:00 GMThttp://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=5http://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=5NUCLEAR weapons carried aboard Royal Navy warships are high on Al Qaeda s hit list, it has emerged.Followers of Osama Bin Laden are being urged to track the Ark Royal, Illustrious and Invincible in what is being called the battle of the masts .A message from the Al Qaeda leadership says: How many nuclear weapons might be on board and what would be the extent of the damage that could be caused if it was exposed to an attack? The last time Al Qaeda launched a large-scale seaborne attack was in October 2000 when suicide bombers in a small vessel used a 1,000lb bomb to punch a hole in the American destroyer USS Cole while it was refuelling in the Yemeni port of Aden. It killed 17 American sailors and wounded 39 more.In a sinister development, Al Qaeda is urging its followers to monitor websites linked to ships to see if messages to wives and children reveal the vessels whereabouts.A statement broadcast on a website said: We call on every Muslim who values their religious beliefs to remove the infidels from the Arabian Peninsula by killing all the crusaders working in embassies or other places, and we declare all-out war against the crusaders on land, at sea and in the air. One site member suggested forming groups to concentrate on gathering information in specific regions, such as ships moving along the Suez Canal.He added: It must be understood that the process of gathering intelligence carries life imprisonment in my country, for example. There is no room for complacency when it comes to security. A site member called Abouhnan responded: God bless you and praise be to Allah that he allows us to be quick. Another added: God bless all the brothers who participate in this raid. May God speed you towards victory and reward you with the highest level of paradise. Evidence has emerged that Al Qaeda had made the aircraft carrier Ark Royal one of its targets in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:09:00 GMThttp://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=6http://www.globalcep.com/cep-newsdetails.aspx?ItemId=6Last year, they were charged with running a racket to pilfer patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital to sell to lawyers for personal-injury claims.Now Ruben E. Rodriguez and wife Maria Victoria Suarez have been indicted again for paying an ambulance-company employee to steal information on patients transported to Miami-Dade hospitals and healthcare clinics.Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:19:00 GMT