Senior FBI leader named new Verizon Chief Security Officer
Verizon today named Michael A. Mason, currently the executive assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to be the company’s new chief security officer. …
Predictions: Mid-year Internet threat outlook
CA issued a report that warns of growing, more complex Internet threats facing home PC users – including targeted identity theft, emerging risks associated with online …
Worm that affects Skype for Windows users
Villu Arak posted the following on the Skype blog: “The new week has started with a bang. And not the kind of bang we like. Skype has learned that a computer virus …
Mobile Malware: Threats and Prevention research results
McAfee released research results on seven targets of opportunity for hackers to attack smart phones based on Windows Mobile, the Microsoft operating system. In the …
First encrypting 1TB desktop PC drive
The Barracuda FDE (full disc encryption) hard drive is the world’s first 3.5-inch desktop PC drive with native encryption to prevent unauthorized access to data on lost …
According to a new report enterprises lack effective risk management
The currently popular silo approach to managing enterprise risk is inadequate because it leaves too many gaps and provides no reliable way to evaluate an enterprise’s …
New Nokia high-end IP Security appliance
Nokia expanded its portfolio of high-performance IP Security appliances with the Nokia IP2450 security platform for firewall/VPN. Benefiting from shared innovations between …
Increased crimeware usage in August
Finjan SecureBrowsing (browser plug-in that adds safety ratings to URLs of search results) has uncovered a growing number of specific cases of crimeware toolkits used by …
Info on the Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference 2007
Expanding interest in technologies that can enable fast, secure transactions of all types are driving smart card applications into many market sectors and opening up …
Almost 90% of mail received by companies in August was spam
According to data compiled by TrustLayer Mail, the managed security service from Panda Security, 87.49 percent of email that reached companies in August was spam. This data …
Increasing use of encryption and growing need for centralized automated key management
The greatly increased adoption of the use of encryption is driving the need for centralized and automated key management solutions – this is the finding of a new survey …
Free cross site scripting security scanner
Acunetix today launched a free edition of its popular web vulnerability scanner, which allows companies to check for cross site scripting vulnerabilities in their websites at …
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