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The recent data breach at Heartland Payment Systems should make one thing clear: the standards for security around credit card numbers still aren’t good enough. New …

Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is meant to be used by both novice and professional security personnel and is even ideal for the Linux uninitiated. You can start learning IT …

PandaLabs revealed the results from its analysis on 430 million email messages from 2008 and discovered that only 8.4 percent of messages that reached companies were …

The OpenID Foundation announced the addition of PayPal as a sustaining corporate member of the board. PayPal selected Andrew Nash, Sr. Director of Information Risk Management …

Intego has discovered a new variant of the iServices Trojan horse that the company discovered on January 22, 2009. This new Trojan horse, OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, like the …

Short answer: both. Compliance with requirement 6.6 of the PCI DSS cites the use of either a web application firewall (WAF) or code review. It’s far more effective to …

Fraud is taking a bigger bite out of UK online revenues according to the figures come from a survey of 150 online merchants undertaken by CyberSource. One in eight businesses …

Fujitsu announced the development of new security technology to make its 2.5-inch encrypted hard disk drives support the Opal Security Subsystem Class (Opal SSC). Opal SSC is …

Marshal8e6, a provider of web and email security products, released its TRACE report for the second half of 2008 which finds that while global spam volumes continued to …

NetMRI 3.0 solves the number-one challenge that undermines network performance and policy compliance – internal changes to the network, whether malicious or inadvertent …

Orbicule announced the integration of Wi-Fi Positioning software from Skyhook Wireless into Undercover, a theft-recovery application that can track any stolen Mac. Undercover …

Positive financial results are not so common these days, so let us briefly cover that Check Point Software reported record fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 numbers. Here …