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One of the first network firewall inventors to come to Abu Dhabi

One of the creators of the world’s first network firewall and the author of “Firewall and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker”, Bill Cheswick, will …

GFI Cloud gets enhanced performance monitoring

GFI Software has enhanced the network performance monitoring capabilities and other features of GFI Cloud, the company’s IT platform for SMBs that enables IT …

What to expect at RSA Conference 2014

The annual RSA Conference is taking place next week in San Francisco, and Avivah Litan, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, provided her thoughts on what to …

Removing admin rights mitigates 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities

Avecto analyzed data from security bulletins issued by Microsoft throughout 2013 and concluded that 92% of all vulnerabilities reported by Microsoft with a critical severity …

Bogus Evernote alert leads to exploit kit

Evernote users are being actively targeted with an email spam campaign that tries to trick them into following a malicious link. Sent from accounts@pcfa.co.in and titled …

Geographical passwords as a solution to the password problem

The massive data breaches that happened in the last few years have proven beyond doubt that the text password authentication method has many flaws. Security researchers and …

SEA hacks Forbes, steals and leaks 1M user records

Business news site Forbes and its registered users are the latest victims of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker collective, which proved that they have broken into the …

Kickstarter suffers data breach

If you ever supported a Kickstarter project, you know by now that the popular crowdfunding platform has experience a data breach and that some of your information was …

Week in review: IE 0-day and fake SSL certificates exploited in the wild, Bitcoin exchanges suspend withdrawals

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Account details of 27,000 Barclays customers stolen, sold to brokers (In)famous …

Exploring the complexity of modern cyber attacks

James Holley is an Executive Director at Ernst & Young LLP. In this interview he discusses the complexity of modern cyber attacks, the challenges involved in maintaining …

Thousands of FTP sites compromised to serve malware and scams

Some 7,000 FTP sites and servers have been compromised to serve malware, and its administrators are usually none the wiser, claim Hold Security researchers. FTP sites function …

Silk Road 2.0 allegedly hacked, user funds stolen

The second incarnation of the (in)famous Silk Road underground market has been hacked, claims one of its moderators who goes by the online handle “Defcon”, and an …

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