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Securing Android for the enterprise
The numbers speak for themselves – Android’s share of the worldwide smartphone market is 52.5 percent, more than double compared to a year ago, according to recent …
Mobile application security risks
Security experts have already agreed on the fact that the increased use of personal mobile devices and smartphones for work purposes is one of the biggest threat to the …
The challenges of setting up a security conference
In this podcast recorded at the SecurityByte conference held this year in Bangalore, India, the conference founder Nishchal Bhalla talks about his motivations for organizing …
A new perspective on the insider threat
When talking about the insider threat, the first that comes to mind to many (if not all) information security professionals is the threat posed by rogue insiders that …
The multiple dimensions of corporate espionage
You’ve spent months fixing the red items on an internal audit report and just passed a regulatory exam. You’ve performed a network vulnerability assessment and …
PCI DSS is working, but there are challenges to overcome
Recent figures from the UK Cards Association showed that banking industry initiatives, including PCI have been successful in decreasing the volume of card and bank account …
Top 10 HTML5 threats and attack vectors
Emerging as popular standard to create Rich Internet Applications and competing with technology stacks like Adobe’s Flex/Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight is …
QualysGuard Web Application Scanning
Yesterday, Qualys released version 2.1 of QualysGuard Web Application Scanning (WAS), that integrates with Selenium to help companies further automate scanning of web …
Information security or IT security?
One would think that these two terms are synonyms – after all, isn’t information security all about computers? Not really. The basic point is this – you …
Does risk outweigh the benefits from the cloud?
Cloud computing provides organizations with an alternative way of obtaining IT services and offers many benefits including increased flexibility as well as cost reduction. …
Mass manipulation through automated social engineering
In the past few years, social engineering has become cyber attackers’ preferred method for gaining access to target systems, and it usually takes the form of a spoofed …
Spammers’ URL shortening sites highlight weakness of old security
A recent Web threat report warned that spammers are now using their own URL shortening servicesto lure spam recipients into clicking on malicious web links. These use the …
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