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In the second quarter of 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 161 unique countries/regions, which was 33 fewer than the first quarter of the year. The highest …

The number of reported security incidents rose 48 percent this year to 42.8 million – which is the equivalent of 117,339 attacks per day. A report from PwC US, CIO and …

Despite increasing numbers of data breaches and the theft and loss of more than 2 billion data records worldwide since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter …

As data breaches at major retailers have compromised the personal information of millions of customers over the past few years, a new consumer trust survey from Honeywell …

When high profile password compromises occur, we often spend a lot of time focusing on advice to the users – “Use strong passwords;” “Don’t reuse …

A new Wi-Fi investigation conducted on the streets of London shows that consumers carelessly use public Wi-Fi without regard for their personal privacy. In the experiment, …

Security related topics are often front and center in the 24-hour news cycle, but what concerns Americans the most? According to a new national survey from University of …

A new survey by AlgoSec found that 79 percent of organizations need better visibility in order to unify security policy management across their on-premise and public cloud …

A service-based criminal industry is developing, in which specialists in the virtual underground economy develop products and services for use by other criminals. This …

Seagate released a dedicated surveillance HDD featuring Seagate Rescue services. Engineered specifically for surveillance and video analytics applications, the Surveillance …

Web performance and security company CloudFlare today launched Universal SSL, making Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption available to anyone at no cost. “Yesterday …

The swathes of high-profile security breaches in recent months have only served to highlight the need to educate the public on the inadequacies of the security systems …