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Users don’t bother changing default passwords

Most people working with sensitive information want stricter security policies but rarely bother changing default, automatically generated and assigned passwords. To collect …

ISO 27001 and BS 25999-2: Why is it better to implement them together?

Lots of companies implementing ISO 27001 struggle how to implement the requirements from Annex A.14 – Business continuity management. The problem is that ISO 27001 does …

Security toolkit for online mobile applications

KOBIL Systems introduced mIDentity App Security Toolkit, which protects mobile users from security attacks. KOBIL offers two reference implementations of this toolkit: …

Akamai protects enterprises from DDoS and application security attacks

Akamai Technologies introduced Akamai Kona Site Defender, a service designed to protect the brand value of companies by shielding their web sites, applications and associated …

Novell integrates Mac device management

Novell announced the availability ZENworks 11 Support Pack 2 which includes integrated device management for Mac, and introduces a new product offering with ZENworks Full Disk …

Security platform uses virtual machine introspection

CounterTack announced three new solutions available on Event Horizon, a security platform utilizing virtual machine introspection (VMI), to help organizations identify, …

Self-selected PINs aren’t that hard to guess

Four-digit banking PINs are usually randomly assigned by banks after the issuing of credit and debit cards, but there are still some out there that let its customers choose …

Fake RIAA copyright violation notification serves malware

First spotted nearly a week ago, notifications of copyright violation supposedly sent by the Recording Industry Association of America are still hitting inboxes around the …

Apache HTTP Server 2.4 released

Celebrating its 17th anniversary with an all-time record of nearly 400 million Websites powered worldwide, the Apache Software Foundation announced version 2.4 of the Apache …

Microsoft says Google also bypassed IE’s privacy settings

Following the discovery that Google and other online advertising companies are bypassing Safari’s default “no tracking” settings with specific code inserted …

yaSSL offers new open source security tools

yaSSL has made IT-level security tools available for the open source community, ensuring that mature, advanced security tools like Kerberos, wpa_supplicant, and OpenSSH are …

Automated security analytics and protection

Network security teams face the task of protecting networks with disparate tools that are limited, slow and labor intensive. Multi-stage attacks executed by diligent cyber …

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