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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">1. WEBCAST: Authentication Security and Why It Matters</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">2. Secret Keys Stashed in Google Play Apps</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">3. Ten Ideas for Improving Cyber Security</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">4. Security SIG’s First Lunch Meeting, July 16th</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Join a free webcast provided by <a href="http://SANS.org">
SANS.org</a> this Tuesday.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">What: Looking Beyond Layers: Why Authentication Security Matters Most</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">When: Tuesday, June 24 at 12:30 PM EDT </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Featuring: Dave Shackelford and Brian Kelly</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://www.sans.org/webcasts/layers-authentication-security-matters-98480">https://www.sans.org/webcasts/layers-authentication-security-matters-98480</a></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Sponsored By: Duo Security <a href="https://www.duosecurity.com/">
https://www.duosecurity.com/</a> </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Description: Traditional, "tried-and-true" security wisdom tells us that tough perimeter controls, defense-in-depth, threat intelligence feeds, and all manner of security point products are the solutions to all
our problems. However, as we've seen time and time again, breaches still happen, credentials still get lifted, and chaos ensues. Yet there's still hope -- authentication security is a viable avenue for making a huge impact against an attacker's sphere of influence
and lateral movement capabilities.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Presenters will highlight some examples where two-factor authentication provided the key defense for disrupting attacks.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Duo Security is a vendor that IS&T is considering working with for two-factor authentication. If you miss this webcast, it will be archived on the SANS website
<a href="https://www.sans.org/webcasts/archive/2014">here</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://www.sans.org/webcasts/upcoming">See additional upcoming webcasts from SANS</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Researchers at Columbia University have found that many Android app developers hide secret authentication keys in their code. The keys could be used to access private cloud accounts or social media profiles.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/secret-keys-stashed-in-google-play-apps-pose-risk-to-android-users-developers/">Read the story in the news.</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Forbes asked ten cyber experts' best ideas for thwarting digital security threats include changing the way we think about security and being proactive about protecting sensitive data; encouraging transparency from
cloud services about data handling; making better use of encryption; developing systems that present smaller attack surfaces; developing a new secure network for critical infrastructure; and establishing privacy and data security regulation and enforcement
for companies. Most acknowledged that there are no easy and quick fixes.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/18/10-ways-to-fix-cybersecurity/">Read the story in the news</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Security SIG is holding its first luncheon on Wednesday, July 16th, 12:00 - 1:00 pm. If you haven’t yet
<a href="https://mailman.mit.edu:444/mailman/listinfo/security_sig">signed up for Security SIG</a>, please do so.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Main topic: "The Biggest Threats to Security Today.” If you have any suggestions on what to cover for this topic, please let us know.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Location to be determined.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">We got a great response rate (30% of the list) for the poll, so thanks to those who replied. Some of you also offered additional topics you¹re interested in, which is great to know for future events.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">We need to still book a room, so stay tuned. Because we are serving lunch we will need you to RSVP. Please send your attendance confirmation to me, at
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<span style="color: rgb(4, 46, 238);">myeaton@mit.edu</span></a>.</div>
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Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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