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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:Simda botnet taken down in global operationThe Simda botnet, believed to have infected …

More organizations are operating under the assumption that their network has already been compromised, or will be, according to a survey conducted by the SANS Institute. …

While businesses are clearly embracing the power of cloud applications with each organization collaborating with an average of 865 other organizations – internal users, …

Although security spending is at an all-time high, security breaches at major organizations are also at an all-time high, according to Gartner, Inc. The impact of advanced …

IBM is making its vast library of security intelligence data available via the IBM X-Force Exchange, a new cyber threat intelligence sharing platform powered by IBM Cloud. …

The proliferation of more than 16 billion connected computing devices today has significantly expanded the attack surface of our interconnected world. Unauthorized, BYOD, …

More than 11,000 IT and business professionals in North America responded to the eighth annual IT Skills and Salary Survey by Global Knowledge and Windows IT Pro. Key …

A widening gap is emerging between the perception and the reality of perimeter security effectiveness amongst global IT decision makers. Gemalto research shows increasing …

It is extremely important that enterprises urgently patch their Java Runtime Environments (JREs) and (Java Development Kits) JDKs since 14 vulnerabilities addressed in this …

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Version 3.1 and supporting guidance. The revision includes minor updates and …

According to MIT, Harvard, and HackerOne researchers, the answer is not throwing more money at bug hunters, but incentivize them to find the the same vulnerabilities that the …

Administrators and security teams are in for a busy day tackling 11 Microsoft security bulletins, Adobe updates and Oracle has pre-announced that their quarterly update …