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Global technology supply chain security standard released

The Open Group published of the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS), the first complete standard published by The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF) and …

Use your iPhone for biometric scanning

AOptix unveiled AOptix Stratus, the first comprehensive mobile identity solution “Made for iPhone” delivering iris, fingerprint, voice, and face recognition in a …

Solera Networks offers visibility into potential security breaches

Solera Networks unveiled the DeepSee BlackBox Recorder, which continuously and silently captures all network traffic – including packets, flows, files and applications. …

Microsoft patches 13 vulnerabilities

April has turned out to be a rather slow month for Patch Tuesday. There are nine bulletins addressing a total of 13 vulnerabilities, but only two of the bulletins are rated …

Malicious HP scan notifications target employees

Users are once again being targeted with fake notifications about a scanned document, but instead of attaching a malicious file to the email, malware peddlers have opted for …

How simulated attacks improve security awareness training

Wombat released a new report that discusses how simulated phishing attacks can be an effective security awareness and training tactic to help companies educate employees how …

UK to host global cybersecurity centre

Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has announced plans to open the Global Centre for Cyber Security and Capacity Building at the University of Oxford – something that he …

LANDesk Acquires VMware Protect product family

LANDesk Software has acquired VMware’s Protect product family of IT management solutions, which VMware acquired through its purchase of Shavlik Technologies in 2011. The …

Malware analysis for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures

HBGary unveiled Active Defense 1.3 to provide live, runtime memory analysis of concurrent Guest OS sessions with minimal impact on the shared physical resources of the …

Cutwail botnet now spreads Android malware

Successful malware peddlers are always thinking up new ways of delivering malware to unsuspecting users. In the past Android malware was mostly served on third-party online …

“Your private naked photos online” emails lead to total computer compromise

Malware peddlers continue to use the old “your naked photos online” lure to trick users into following malicious links or downloading malicious attachments, warns …

Bitdefender launches Antivirus Free for Android

Bitdefender has launched Antivirus Free for Android, which offers smartphone owners a free, fast and powerful antivirus solution that taps the latest in-the-cloud scanning …

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