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• Do smaller businesses think they're immune to security threats?

  Do small to midsize businesses (SMB) think they're somehow immune to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> threats?

• Researcher plants rogue app in Apple's App Store

  Apple's App Store can be stocked with malware-infected apps by exploiting a bug in iOS, a noted security researcher said Monday.

• Microsoft expected to offer hot fix for Duqu soon

  The big zero-day exploit on everyone's mind is Duqu, or "son of Stuxnet" - but researchers don't expect <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> to include a patch for it in next week's Patch Tuesday. Instead, a manual fix could be out as soon as this week.

• Stupid hacker tricks: Exploits gone bad

  If the Internet is the new Wild West, then hackers are the wanted outlaws of our time. And like the gun-slinging bad boys before them, all it takes is one wrong move to land them in jail.

• Windows Intune 2.0: Four new features

  Windows Intune, Microsoft's Web-based PC management and security platform, may not get the same level of attention as cloud services like Office 365 or Windows Azure, but Microsoft is betting big on Intune to be the cloud service that will facilitate IT's evolving job of remotely managing PCs.

• Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes

  Zero-day exploits are nerve-racking for IT professionals but are far less dangerous than unpatched older vulnerabilities for which fixes are available, Microsoft says.

• Cellphones will become a way to attack otherwise protected devices: report

  Mobile phones will become an increasing menace to network security that could drop malware onto protected devices when they dock to sync or plug into USB ports to charge, security experts say in a Georgia Tech report.

• Father of SSL says despite attacks, the security linchpin has lots of life left

  SSL/TLS, the protocol that protects <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> of e-commerce, has taken a beating lately, with news items ranging from the violation of certificate authorities to the discovery of an exploit that beats the protocol itself.

• In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles

  At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security.

• Android targeted by SpyEye banking Trojan

  Banking transactions for owners of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> phones just became more dangerous with a new iteration of the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072611-spyeye-trojan-morphs-to-defeat.html">SpyEye</a> Trojan designed to intercept two-factor authentication codes sent via SMS -- the first known version for Android.

• Cybercrime costs rival those of illegal drug trafficking

  Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cybercrime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug trafficking worldwide, according to a study by the Norton division of Symantec.

• Brace for email-attachment malware spree

  A sizeable spike in <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/051811-microsoft-one-in-14-downloads.html">malicious email attachments</a> is just subsiding, but if history is any indicator, several smaller spikes are about to follow that use even more deceptive means than their predecessors.

• US and UK zombies demand top dollar

  Denizens of the malware underworld who sell access to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080911-defcon-voip.html">compromised computers</a> do so at varying rates depending on where the machines are located, researchers told the Usenix <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">Security</a> Symposium this week.

• Android Trojan records phone calls

  A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher.

• Malwarebytes preps enterprise edition of PC-cleaning software

  Malwarebytes this fall expects to release an enterprise-grade anti-malware platform that it says doesn't compete directly with traditional antivirus software because it relies more on observing how the malware acts and less on seeking code signatures.