• Decryption disclosure doesn't violate Fifth Amendment, judge rules in child porn case

  A federal judge in Wisconsin has ordered a suspect in a child porn investigation to either provide prosecutors with the passwords to several encrypted storage devices of his that are thought to contain incriminating evidence or to provide them with a decrypted copy of the contents of the drives.

• Schnucks wants federal court to handle data breach lawsuit

  St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnuck Markets has claimed that a potential class action lawsuit filed against it in an Illinois state court over a recent data breach really belongs in federal court because of the case's scope and damages involved

• Telstra in the sights of Privacy Commissioner

  Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has begun an investigation after some Telstra customer’s phone numbers, names and home addresses contained in spreadsheets were found online during a Google search.

• Security Manager's Journal: NAC deployment means better access control at last

  The deployment has already revealed a whole lot of devices that don't meet the criteria for getting on the corporate network.

• AT&T hacker seeks sentencing leniency

  Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker who was convicted last November of illegally accessing emails and other data belonging to 120,000 iPad 3G owners from AT&T's networks is seeking leniency in his sentencing from the court.

• Move data to a safer, separate partition in Windows 7

  Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another.

• Security Manager's Journal: A little housecleaning

  Our manager finds the time and opportunity to cross a few nagging items off of his to-do list.

• Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply

  Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes.

• Retailer hauls Visa to court over $13.3M fine for payment card data breach

  Genesco, a specialty retailer of footwear, sports apparel and related accessories has sued Visa USA for $13.3 million in fines that were assessed against the company after a credit card data breach in 2010.

• China biggest, but not the only country engaged in cyberespionage

  China is by far the most aggressive, but not the only, country attempting the sort of extensive cyberespionage described in security firm Mandiant's dramatic report, released this week.

• When in China, don't leave your laptop alone

  If you travel to China or Russia, assume government or industry spooks will steal your data and install spyware. Here's how to thwart them

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