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Security threats are imminent, but CEOs and other members of the management team are in the dark about potential cyber-attacks against their companies, say the results of a …

Different tokens, devices, mobile phones, e-signatures, etc. are used to authenticate our e-identities. Yet, some financial institutions are still not considering the risk of …

The advent of new technologies, the widespread implementation of mobile and wireless communication and the increase in mobile adoption will open up new opportunities for …

SplashData has announced its annual list of the 25 most common passwords found on the Internet, and for the first time since the company began compiling its annual list, …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos and articles: The biggest challenge to IT security is marketing Most companies today are …

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the forfeiture of approximately 29,655 Bitcoins (which, at today’s Bitcoin …

Companies are compelled to uncover real value in their data, and they’re turning to Hadoop as a key part of their data center strategy. In 2014, data centers will move …

Cloud security incidents often catch the media’s attention as they affect large number of users. For example, recently a large storage service provider suffered an …

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a technology that can perform concealed searches of encrypted data in its encrypted form. Searching data while it is …

The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, released today, reveals that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks …

Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Computer …

Silent Circle and Geeksphone announced Blackphone, a smartphone placing privacy and control directly in the hands of its users. Blackphone, powered by a security-oriented …