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DDoS attacks are getting bigger, stronger and longer

Prolexic Technologies announced that the average packet-per-second (pps) rate reached 47.4 Mpps and the average bandwidth reached 49.24 Gbps based on data collected in Q2 2013 …

Social engineering tops list of help desk security threats

Help desks are most commonly asked to assist users in addressing common IT problems including password resets and application and connectivity issues. Often the performance of …

Vendors patch security vulnerabilities within 3 weeks

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab released its statistics on web application security for the first half of 2013. The statistics is based on HTB Security Advisories that …

Many join EFF to sue NSA over illegal surveillance

Nineteen organizations including gun ownership advocates, and a broad coalition of membership and political advocacy organizations filed suit against the NSA for violating …

US retains spamming crown

Sophos has published the latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ of spam relaying countries, covering the second quarter of 2013. As the US retains the top spot among spam-relaying …

Email security: Perception vs. reality

When it comes to email security in the workplace, 98 percent of employees believe they demonstrate either equally secure or more secure behaviors than their colleagues. …

Rapid7 updates Metasploit, Mobilisafe and Nexpose

Rapid7 announced new innovations for its risk assessment and management portfolio. This simplifies remediation, testing and communication of security program performance to …

Oracle releases Critical Patch Update

Relatively quiet Critical Patch Update (CPU) from Oracle this quarter. Relative is of course subjective to Oracle, since this gigantic pile of unrelated code fixes includes 89 …

Modulo updates its Risk Manager solution

New Modulo Risk Manager Version 8.2 features the first release of the new Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) module, as well as delivers over 150 product enhancements to the …

Cyber security spending in critical infrastructure to hit $46 billion

The digitization of critical infrastructures has provided substantial benefits in terms of socio-economic developments – improved productivity, better connectivity, …

Co3 Systems integrates investigative tools with security incident response

Co3 Systems announced an expansion of its Security Module with the ability to capture incident artifacts – such as malware samples or IP addresses – and …

New whitepaper on cybercrime, systemic risk and global securities markets

The Research Department of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published a joint Staff Working Paper, with the World Federation of Exchanges …

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