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78% of organizations experienced downtime due to mismanaged encryption

Encryption key and digital certificate inventories are rising, according to a study by Venafi. Poorly managed encryption leads to system downtime, non-compliance and audit …

Adobe to release more secure PDF reader

Adobe is announcing the new Acrobat X Family of Products which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. Reader X is the only …

Fraud losses increase by 20% in the past 12 months

Theft of information and electronic data at global companies has overtaken physical theft for the first time, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study …

A cyber criminal’s key to vulnerable systems

New, advanced evasion techniques (AET) that can pose a serious threat to existing network security systems worldwide, according to Stonesoft. These AET threats significantly …

Week in review: Cloud security, patching challenges and RSA Conference 2010 news

Week in review: Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews, articles, reviews and podcasts: A foolproof drive-by-download blocking …

BlackBerry patches Enterprise Server

A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server could allow a malicious individual to cause buffer overflow errors, leading …

Requirements of cloud-based network security

While some of the technical underpinnings that make up the cloud’s “secret sauce’, are relatively recent innovations, the business case for managing critical …

5 tips for protecting against spam attacks

Whether you’re at work or at home, spam causes headaches and wastes time, forcing you to trawl through your inbox to work out which mail is legitimate and which is spam. …

How to protect employees with a web filtering solution

Let’s face it, this is not your father’s Internet (or, for those of us who first went online in the late 90’s, even John Postel’s Internet.) As …

One in five spam messages comes from the U.S.

Sophos published the latest report into the ‘Dirty Dozen’ spam-relaying countries, covering the third quarter of 2010. Since the second quarter this year, the spam …

The value of your credentials

As surprising as this may sound, earlier this year stolen twitter credentials were valued at almost $1,000. When compared to credit card details that fetch less than $1, why …

Photos: RSA Conference Europe 2010

RSA Conference Europe 2010 at a glance: keynotes, presentations, mingling on the expo floor.

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