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Blog Post by Jon Oltsik: A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation to a number of companies about the future of endpoint security. During this presentation, I had the opportunity to ask these folks a number of questions about their IT infrastructure and...
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Excerpt: This report, developed in collaboration with experts, aims to inform policy makers about malware impacts, growth and evolution, and countermeasures to combat malware. It seeks to analyze some of the main issues associated with malware and to...
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A survey out today by the organizers of the tech-security conference Infosecurity Europe found that 21% of 576 London office workers stopped on the street were willing to share their computer passwords with a good looking woman holding a clipboard. People...
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In a new report released by European information technology analysis group, Quocirca, organisations that admitted to being frequently hacked, all outsource at least some of their coding practice, with 90 percent outsourcing more than 40 percent! With...
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The USA's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). Last week, the IC3 released its annual report for 2007. You can download a copy from here . From F-Secure: Malicious software...
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Security breaches that can be traced back to the actions of one individual are not the fault of one "stupid" employee but rather a failure to educate and engage the whole workforce around the importance of good security practice, according to a leading...
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Security portal Zone-H , which documents attacks on and defacements of Web pages, has compiled statistics about the attacks within the last year. Apparently, Linux servers were successfully defaced twice as often as Windows servers. Apache servers were...
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has just released their Phishing Activity Trends Report for the month of December. Overall, the report showed a decrease in activity from the previous month; however, there were a few notable exceptions. It appears...
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A majority of government IT organizations say identity management is very important to securing their networks and will become even more so over the next five years, but that funding to keep pace is a major impediment to growth. The respondents also said...
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"Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green," VeriSign said in a press release about Extended Validation SSL technology earlier this month. About 5,000 sites are using the new technology, which gives users...
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Microsoft Corporation commissioned West Coast Labs (WCL) to carry out a series of performance benchmarking tests and metric-based process evaluations of the following products: Microsoft Forefront Client Security McAfee Active VirusScan with McAfee ePO...
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European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited e-mail than those in the U.S. for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec. Symantec called this a "significant shift" in spam trends as, historically, compromised U.S. computers...
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Teenagers, including children as young as eleven and twelve years old, are increasingly becoming involved in serious cyber-criminal activity that exposes themselves and the users they target to a full range of dangerous repercussions. "Most have absolutely...
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If it seems that -- despite your company's best efforts to educate users about security -- users are actually behaving less responsibly, don't panic. Your organization isn't the only one. In fact, Cisco Systems Inc. today is releasing the results of a...
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Updates are available, but users haven't installed them, says Secunia. One in five applications installed on Windows PCs are missing security patches, a Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker has reported. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do...
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses faced varied threats in 2007 - including cyberattacks in Europe, theft of intellectual property in Asia, natural disasters in Latin America, terrorism on many continents - according to a year-end analysis...
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Microsoft’s Forefront team has posted a new study conducted for Microsoft by CMG Market Research measuring the perceptions of 1,274 information technology (IT) managers in the U.S. toward 12 security concerns, such as malware, temporary workers, hackers...
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Consumers strongly prefer to buy from companies that have not suffered data leaks, losses or theft, according to a new survey conducted for Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The Check Point & YouGov survey of over 2100 British consumers highlighted...
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Security firm Sophos reported that 54% of wireless users interviewed have admitted to using someone else's wireless Internet access. In a report, done by the firm on behalf of The Times, many Wi-Fi users fail to properly secure their wireless connection...
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