The escalating cost of US cybersecurity plans
When US President Barack Obama called on the Congress for laws that would protect the country’s citizens, businesses and infrastructure from various cyber threats, it …
“Facebook will end on March 15th” hoax spreading quickly
Hoaxes claiming that Facebook will shut down or stop being a free service are regularly propagated through the social network, raising panic with users who haven’t …
ISO 27001 video tutorials
One of the biggest obstacles for companies starting to implement ISO 27001 is writing various documents required by this information security standard. Information Security …
Confidential data at risk even with policies in place
Think confidential information is protected by company IT security policies? Think again. A new survey by Xerox and McAfee, reveals that more than half of employees say they …
Intel details next-generation communications platform
Intel disclosed several features for the company’s next-generation communications platform, codenamed Crystal Forest. The platform will handle data processing across the …
Protect data by finding forgotten databases
Application Security declared that organizations can no longer afford to guess or assume that they have their database inventory under control. Based on the premise that you …
Practical Malware Analysis
Malware. You know what it is. Perhaps you’ve even fought a malware infection or two. Wouldn’t it be nice if the good guys finally had one really complete guide to …
Web filtering technology with next-generation firewall capabilities
Barracuda Networks announced the integration of the Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex. This solution combines cloud-based Web filtering technology with …
Mozilla wants CAs to stop issuing and revoke MITM certificates
A heated debate has unfolded after Trustwave made public their decision to revoke a subordinate root certificate it issued to a company that allowed it to intercept their …
Open source password manager gets two-factor authentication
Yubico announced a successful implementation of YubiKey two-factor authentication with the free, open source password manager software Password Safe. The joint solution offers …
Horde FTP server hacked, files modified to include backdoor
The developers of the Horde open source software have issued a statement warning its users that a one of their FTP servers was discovered to have been breached and some files …
February Patch Tuesday lighter than expected
It turns out that this February Patch Tuesday is lighter than we had anticipated. Some of the nine bulletins should be less worrisome to IT admins: the Office vulnerability …
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