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Trending Security News Security news stories this week continue to validate the importance of cybersecurity skills in the marketplace and FEMA released a new National Preparedness Report providing insights on the state of national critical infrastructure protection. Here are some of the security news stories and a blog pick this week.
In the News Hottest IT Skill? Cybersecurity – PCWorldCyber security is hottest IT skill – InfoWorldMicrosoft Security Essentials 4.0 – PC Magazine
Security Research & Intelligence
FEMA: Cybersecurity ranks lowest among critical protections – Government Computer NewsFEMA National Preparedness Report
Cyber Threat
Cybersecurity Roundup: Tech Firms Waver on CISPA; Android Malware; and More – CIOHackers have breached top secret MoD systems, cyber-security chief admits – The Guardian'Smishing' Attacks Are on the Rise – NetworkworldComing Up With Better Ways to Count -- and Counter -- Botnets – Threat Post
Government, Legislation & Policy
Army contracts help for cybersecurity – UPISOCA website brought down by DDoS cyber attack - for second time in a year – Naked SecurityUS to legislate protecting Facebook passwords from employers – infosecurity
Blog Picks
Microsoft to Botmasters: Abandon Your Inboxes – Krebs on Security
Microsoft Research, Papers and Media
Trustworthy Computing Next (paper)
Cybersecurity/Internet Health
· Rethinking the Cyber Threat (paper)
· Collective Defense: Applying Public Health Models to the Internet (paper)
· Video: Collective Defense: Enabling Healthy Devices (video)
Security Intelligence
· Lessons from Least Malware Infected Countries (series)
· Battling the ZBot Threat (paper)
Trustworthy Computing
· Imagine Video: Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (video)
Cybersecurity/Trusted Supply Chain:
· Supply Chain Risk Management keynote at the East-West Institute’s Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit (video)
· Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Toward a Global Vision of Transparency and Trust (paper)
· Toward a Trusted Supply Chain: A Risk Based Approach To Managing Software Integrity (paper)
· Microsoft at RSA Conference 2012
· Microsoft Sessions at RSA Conference 2012
· Trust in Computing Research
· TwC Next Poster