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Microsoft patches 11 vulnerabilities

Today Microsoft released three security bulletins which address 11 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Office and Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway. Of note, only one …

Backup for Facebook Fan Pages

Backupify announced its backup and archival solution for Facebook fan pages. Backupify for Facebook makes it easy to avoid data loss and to mitigate the risks associated with …

Latest IE 0-day exploit finds its way into Eleonore toolkit

Microsoft will likely be forced to issue an out-of-band-patch for the zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer that has been discovered being exploited in the wild …

Toy robots can guard your home

Worried about burglars ransacking your house? Buy yourself some toy robots! It is what Robert Oschler, a Florida-based programmer, did. He bought a Rovio – a Wi-Fi …

Microsoft Kinect may be eavesdropping on you

Released only five days ago, Microsoft’s Kinect seems poised to start a revolution in gaming. And if you are one of the lucky people who already managed to get their …

G20 summit related malicious spam campaign

Spammers are taking advantage of the oddest things. The lately detected spam messages concerning the upcoming G-20 summit in Korea is an example of such a specifically …

Data breaches cost hospitals billions

Data breaches of patient information cost healthcare organizations nearly $6 billion annually, and that many breaches go undetected, according to a study by the Ponemon …

Employees will take bigger risks during this holiday season

Employees in the US plan to spend less time shopping online from a work-supplied computer this holiday season than they did a year ago, but more of them are engaging in risky …

Classification of web applications and content by URL category

Blue Coat Systems announced that their PacketShaper appliances can now deliver instant awareness of Web applications and content. The appliances provide intelligent control …

Microsoft offers Security Essentials via Windows Update, Trend Micro objects

Trend Micro is crying foul over the latest Microsoft move that sees its U.S. customers being offered to install the company’s free Security Essentials solution through …

Royal Navy site hack forces MoD to suspend website

A Romanian hacker known as ‘TinKode’ has claimed to have broken into the main British Royal Navy website, www.royalnavy.mod.uk, and posted sensitive information …

Mismanaged data encryption causes financial loss

Venafi invited the 150-plus survey participants from the world’s largest companies to give their views on the problem of downtime caused by increasing encryption …

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