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A unique malware file is created every half-second
Sophos has released its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report, which reveals that since the beginning of 2011, the company has identified an average of 150,000 malware samples …
Testing the cloud
Managing IT networks requires a broad set of competencies in a growing number of technologies and products. It therefore makes sense that these competencies are centralized in …
Week in review: Massive iFrame injection attack, Anonymous/LulzSec arrests and Facebook phishing
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Global analysis of 10 million web attacks Web applications, on average, experience …
Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.0 released
Netsparker can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it’s built on, just like an actual …
Norman antimalware appliance built on Linux platform
Norman announced the latest version of its Network Protection (NNP) antimalware appliance, which improves protection against persistent IT infrastructure security attacks. New …
IT control objectives for cloud computing
Cloud computing has become a major growth area in IT spending, and enterprises must adapt to the changes it brings to maximize the return on investment. To help organizations …
Use Google’s indexing capabilities to identify vulnerabilities
Next week at Black Hat, Stach & Liu researchers Francis Brown and Rob Ragan will show how the power of Google’s indexing capabilities can be harnessed to identify …
What did the RSA breach end up costing EMC?
RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, has suffered a breach of its networks and the loss of critical data back in March. An initial refusal of sharing details of the …
Half of organizations face downtime due to patching
53 per cent of companies are affected by downtime when it comes to deploying patches, according to Dell KACE. A further 29 per cent of companies had IT teams conduct patching …
AVG releases Premium Security
AVG announced Premium Security, the Internet security solution that surveys the Web for incidents of stolen identity. It includes AVG Identity Alert, AVG Internet Security and …
Phishers becoming sophisticated marketers of fraud
Phishers are becoming more sophisticated criminal marketers, according to a report by IID which documents a quarter that was a watershed for data breaches, from large-scale …
Managers don’t understand the power of IT
While the world is distracted with the continuing reports of phone hacking practices and other corporate data breaches, it is revealed that hundreds of organizations are now …
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