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Attackers take advantage of emerging technologies
Attackers continue to focus on social engineering attacks and circumventing legacy enterprise security systems, according to Zscaler. Q4 saw shifts in the sources of …
Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Intel announced the acquisition of McAfee is complete. McAfee will continue developing and selling security products and services under its own brand. Intel and McAfee plan to …
Do I need a data center?
If you still own your own data center and this question has not already crossed your mind, then you might be spending more money than you need, subjecting your organization to …
Eating the US EMV elephant
Last week, Visa announced that it would eliminate the requirement for eligible merchants to annually validate their compliance with the PCI DSS for any year in which at least …
Toshiba e-Studio855SE series with advanced security features
Toshiba introduced their new e-STUDIO855SE Series (models 555SE, 655SE, 755SE, 855SE) which provides Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Encryption and Data Overwrite out of the box. …
Cisco Firewall Services Module DoS vulnerability
A vulnerability exists in the Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers that may cause the Cisco FWSM to …
Control physical and virtual machines on a network
Shavlik Technologies announced solutions that provide an approach to controlling all physical and virtual machines on a network. The company introduced NetChk Protect 7.8 and …
Video: Light painting Wi-Fi
This project explores the invisible terrain of Wi-Fi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four meter long measuring rod …
Critical data exchange in the cloud
The pace of business today requires that critical information can be accessed anywhere, anytime. Furthermore, this sharing of information often happens amongst both internal …
Week in review: Facebook scams, OddJob Trojan and corporate espionage via social networks
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: New types of cookies raise online privacy concerns The advertising industry has led …
Social media authenticity, privacy and security
Panda Security is providing guidance on ways to safely and securely integrate social media strategies into an SMB. Panda Security discovered that 78 percent use social …
Going “eye to eye” with network security threats
One of the ironies of our increasingly technology-dependent society is that you need an ever increasing amount of technology to address the failings or risks of the technology …
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