Mobile banking trends and hidden risks
While mobile banking apps are growing quickly in popularity, 68 percent of smartphone owners who have not yet adopted these apps are holding back due to security fears, while …
Big Data grows as data security shrinks
A report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has revealed that despite the growing issue of “Big Data,” most organisations are actually keeping looser tabs …
Moving federal mission-critical applications to the cloud
As federal agencies are making cloud progress, the early-adopters that are moving their mission-critical applications to the cloud are realizing cost savings and improved …
Deconstructing hacktivist operations and tools
Imperva released its September Hacker Intelligence report, which details the latest methods deployed by hackers to execute DDoS attacks by analyzing the technical tools and …
Darwin’s theory applies to malware
G Data’s new malware report shows a new and unexpected development in malware: the extreme growth of new malicious programs seems to be slowing down. Granted, the …
Phishers continue to target legitimate websites
Attackers confidently exploit legitimate websites with the same methods and that they succeed because victims are not implementing recommended best practices, countermeasures …
Real-world software security initiatives study
Cigital announced the fourth major release of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) study. This release describes real-world data from fifty-one firms with active …
One third of European organizations refuse to implement BYOD
Imation released research which shows that German workers are most likely to follow rules around secure remote working, with 50% of German respondents saying that they always …
Data migrations: Potential security hole
While 95% of organisations move data at least once per year, 65% of those surveyed admitted that they were not confident sensitive data was protected during a migrationm, …
Cloud services market to surpass $109 billion in 2012
The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to total $109 billion worldwide, according to Gartner. Business process services (also known as …
Majority of companies suffered a web application security breach
Web application security incidents have become increasingly common and expensive, with the majority of companies experiencing at least one breach in the last 18 months and …
Android malware threats analysis
Bitdefender released its August 2012 Android malware threats report. While in August the percentage of adware-bundled apps dropped to 55.15 per cent, from July’s 77.34 …
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