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The security threat of unsanctioned file sharing
Organisational leadership is failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing practices among their employees, and employees routinely breach IT policies …
Most orgs unprepared to handle a cyber incident
In the latest quarter, Solutionary SERT performed a broad analysis of the threat landscape, including information on the Shellshock and Aftershock vulnerabilities present in …
What’s jeopardizing the safety of your datacenter?
Datacenters are fraught with hidden operational hazards, and because virtual infrastructure is extremely complex and dynamic, many vulnerabilities go undetected and can be …
Biggest ever cyber security exercise in Europe is underway
More than 200 organisations and 400 cyber-security professionals from 29 European countries are testing their readiness to counter cyber-attacks in a day-long simulation, …
Photo gallery: McAfee FOCUS 14
Help Net Security attended McAfee’s Annual Security Conference FOCUS 14 that has been held this week at The Venetian and the Palazzo Congress Center in Las Vegas. …
Post Snowden, most users have changed Internet habits
On the heels of Edward Snowden’s advice to switch from Dropbox, Facebook and Google to services that place a high priority on security and privacy, F-Secure is releasing …
NIST Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing open for comments
NIST has announced the public comment release of Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-150, Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing. The purpose of this publication is to …
Over a third of orgs have no real-time insight on cyber risks
Most organizations (67%) are facing rising threats in their information security risk environment, but over a third (37%) have no real-time insight on cyber risks necessary to …
Dynamic endpoint protection by McAfee and ForeScout
ForeScout Technologies and McAfee, part of Intel Security, have partnered to provide a new and enhanced interoperability between ForeScout CounterACT and McAfee solutions. The …
Orgs choose network performance over security
An alarming number of organizations are disabling advanced firewall features in order to avoid significant network performance degradation, say the results of the Network …
Over one-third of all enterprise data leakage policy violations occur on mobile devices
Nearly half of all cloud app activities and more than one-third of all data leakage policy violations occur on mobile devices, say the results of the October 2014 Netskope …
Samsung users could be locked out of their devices by attackers
A zero-day flaw in Samsung’s Find My Mobile system that can be extremely easily exploited to remotely lock a target’s phone has been uncovered by programmer and …
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