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The removal of administrator rights from Windows users is a mitigating factor in 75 percent of Critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities. Microsoft and its partners regularly …

The records of about three and a half million Texans were erroneously placed on the server with personally identifying information, and the Texas Comptroller’s office is …

Firewalls are well understood as the main barriers between an organization’s internal and external networks. Over the past 25 years, they have become the foundation of …

Malware sent via email increased by 400% in the last week of March 2011, Commtouch reported today. The significant increase was detected two weeks after the takedown of the …

A global survey of more than 1,240 IT decision makers at large enterprises – 72% of which have more than 1,000 employees – found that one third (33%) of …

Secunia announced enhancements to the award-winning Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM). The Secunia VIM is compliant with the vulnerability database requirements …

Of the three million respondents to a SonicWALL quiz, only 7.4% answered all of the questions correctly. When asked to determine whether a suspect email was a phishing e-mail …

IEEE announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3bgTM-2011, 40Gb/s Ethernet Single-mode fiber optical interface, a new standard enabling 40 Gb/s serial Ethernet interfaces to be …

HP announced the first application security analysis solution that discovers the root cause of software vulnerabilities by observing attacks in real-time. HP Fortify Real-Time …

B-Sides Vienna is a hacker conference targeted at security researchers, system and network operators, application developers, hardware hackers, hackerspace members, and …

The Open Group announced a new information security management standard, The Open Group Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3), which enables the creation of …

We’ve all made one in our career, I’m talking about that blunder you thought you would be fired for. My first blunder was rebooting all the campus router pairs at …