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Smaller DDoS attacks can be deadlier than big ones

Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware instead found that bigger problems …

Attackers use fake friends to blend into Facebook

A new Barracuda Labs study provides an example of an increasing number of attackers move to social networks to carry out their wares. The study analyzes a random sampling of …

Security breaches driving authentication changes

Recent security breaches and deployment of new technologies are driving organizations to re-evaluate incumbent authentication vendors and re-think their authentication …

Greatest risks to database security

The greatest challenge to database security may actually come from organizational issues, rather than nefarious or accidental acts, according to a survey presented by …

The state of global cyber-readiness

McAfee and the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) revealed the findings from a report that paints a global snapshot of current thinking about the cyber-threat and the measures …

Identity and access management trends

Six major trends will drive the evolution of corporate management of identity and access management (IAM) and privacy management in 2012, according to Gartner. “In 2012, …

Most disruptive and significant IT trends

451 Research, published an all-encompassing report highlighting the most disruptive and significant trends that the analyst firm expects to dominate and drive the enterprise …

Web attacks peak at 38,000 an hour

Web applications are subject to business logic attacks, according to a report by Imperva. Imperva monitored and categorized attacks across the internet targeting 40 different …

User error is the biggest threat on the Internet

Sophos unveiled a detailed assessment of the threat landscape – from hacktivism and online threats to mobile malware, cloud computing and social network security, as …

Organizations to replace BI functions with cloud offerings

Nearly one third of organizations either already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions, …

IT industry business confidence remains flat

IT companies express tempered optimism heading into the first quarter of the year, though longer-term prospects look more promising. CompTIA projects a worldwide IT industry …

IT managers express concerns over tablet security

Cisco commissioned a survey 1500 IT managers and executives in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany and Spain to assess attitudes, fears and hopes for tablets in the workplace. …

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