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Issue 23: November 2009 - (IN)SECURE Magazine

Summary: Issue 23 of (IN)SECURE Magazine, dated November 2009, is a year-in-review edition with contributions from security professionals including Steve Dispensa of PhoneFactor, Chris Hadnagy, Nick Lowe of Check Point, and Josh Phillips of Kaspersky Lab. Its table of contents lists articles on Microsoft's security patches, malicious PDFs, Web-based attacks, mobile spam, and a study on password usage behavior.

Bottom line: The issue's own table of contents pairs a study on alarming password usage behavior with articles on browser and endpoint attacks, a reminder that the human habits behind credentials have long outlasted the tools built to defend them.

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Phishing & Social Engineering
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