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An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure
The famous quote from Benjamin Franklin on prevention being better than a cure could easily be applied to the issue of corporate data losses. It’s far better to stop …
Breakdown of security weaknesses by industry and organization size
WhiteHat Security released the tenth installment of its Security Website Security Statistics Report, providing a first-time breakdown of the state of website security by …
Cybersecurity tips for the enterprise
With the recent rise in malvertising, high-impact data breaches and other malicious security threats, the practices and secure infrastructure of legitimate marketers …
New software improves ability to detect malware in cloud-computing systems
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new software that offers significantly enhanced security for cloud-computing systems. The software is much …
Phishers still favor spam over social networking sites
SpamTitan Technologies announced the findings of its latest survey of SMBs on the continued danger of phishing attacks, and it shows that despite media reports about the rise …
One in five students have hacked, one in three did it for fun
Research published today by Tufin Technologies reveals that 23% of college and university students have hacked into IT systems. Of these hackers, 40% waited until after their …
Adobe releases security update for Flash Player
New versions of Adobe Flash Player have been released today in order to patch a critical vulnerability in earlier versions of the program for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, …
Mobile fraud detection imperative for the future of mobile commerce
By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90 percent of mobile transactions, and the rapid adoption of …
Testing tool for packet filtering and access control systems
Idappcom launched Traffic IQ V2.0, an automated auditing and vulnerability assessment testing tool that has an extensive traffic library that includes thousands of real …
Week in review: Smartphone security risks, botnet offering DDoS services, defense of the future Internet
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: “Here you have” virus authors may be based in Spain …
Q&A: RSA Conference Europe 2010
Linda Lynch is the RSA Conference Europe Manager and in this Q&A she provides an overview of this year’s event. Where do you see RSA Conference Europe fit in the …
Seagate’s self-encrypting hard drive earns U.S. Government certification
Seagate’s Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive, the world’s first laptop hard drive with built-in encryption to protect against unauthorized access to information on …
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