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Sunbelt Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of March 2010. The list shows the continued prevalence of Trojan horse programs circulating …

Do you ever find yourself driving down the road in an unfamiliar place and you get that gut feeling that you’re headed in the wrong direction? Well, I feel that’s …

Enterprises are investing heavily in compliance and protection against accidental leaks of custodial data (such as customer information), but under-investing in protection …

Splunk provides the ability for users to search, monitor and analyze live streaming IT data as well as terabytes of historical data, all from the same interface. Splunk 4.1 …

As the healthcare industry prepares for a major shift to electronic health records (EHRs) over the next several years, a new bi-annual report provides data that shows that …

ScriptLogic introduced Privilege Authority, a free solution that allows IT administrators to maintain control of administrator rights while giving end users specific and …

Symantec and the Ponemon Institute announced the findings of a joint survey of IT professionals. The survey revealed that most organizations lack the procedures, policies and …

The IObit Random Password Generator enables you to produce strong, not easy to crack, passwords for privacy protection – for free. The tool can store randomly generated …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 90% of critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities are mitigated by …

Red Condor issued a warning of a new blended email threat that appears to be a security alert from eBay. The email message with the subject line “eBay Procedural Warning …

Ransomware is the dominating threat with nine of the detections in the malware top ten list resulting in either scareware or ransomware infesting the victim’s PC. …

The OSSEC team is pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 2.4. There are lots of new features and bug fixes, but these are the main changes: Added daily …