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The Case for Automated Log Management in Meeting HIPAA Compliance
The Impact of HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, was passed in 1996 by the US Department of Health and Human Standards (HHS) to …
New SANS Top 20 list points to two major transformations in attacker targets
This year’s SANS Top 20 illuminates two new attack targets that criminals have chosen to exploit, and the older targets where attackers have significantly raised the …
Macrovision acquires Blu-ray disc security technology
Macrovision completed its acquisition of SPDC (Self-Protecting Digital Content) technology from Cryptography Research, Inc., a San Francisco-based R&D organization …
NetShred X privacy tool now supports Safari 3 and works on Leopard
Mireth Technology Corp. has released version 4.1 of NetShred X, its easy to use internet track eraser that erases internet tracks, such as cache, history and email. NetShred X …
New Firefox release fixes three security issues
A new version of the Firefox web browser has been released. Firefox 2.0.0.10 fixes three security vulnerabilities: Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition – …
“Man in the Browser” attacks becoming popular among cyber criminals
F-Secure warns computer users of an upsurge in attacks against banking sites, targeting personal user data. These attacks use a new generation of malicious codes in a …
Survey shows that spyware poses the biggest threat for organizations
Spyware now poses the biggest security threat to organizations, while threats from worms, viruses and browser-based attacks have lessened, according to research from the …
New security compliance management suite
netForensics introduced its nFX One security compliance management suite. nFX One provides organizations of all sizes with solutions to address external and internal threats, …
Anti malware experts merge with email security company
Webroot Software announced that it has merged with Email Systems. Consequently, Webroot moves decisively into providing security SaaS solutions to enterprise organizations, …
Privacy: Erase Your Hard Drive
You may not be aware of this, but merely erasing your data the regular way does not make it disappear for good. Some of it can still be retrieved with the use of recovery …
New minimum standard for software development security
The SANS Institute released its first proposed standard for software developers to demonstrate they have the skills and knowledge to write secure software. This standard, …
Monitor websites and servers for changes or failures on your Mac
Dejal today released Dejal Simon 2.3.5, a site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports or volumes, and other services for …
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