With the advent of mobility and the influx of BYOD in enterprise, employers are struggling to keep control of their networks, according to John Yun, Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat. Yun, who is in Dubai promoting Blue Coat’s ...
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The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticised new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. Of most concern ...
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About five years ago Genomic Health began to introduce cloud-based business applications. Ken Stineman, senior director of enterprise architecture and security, quickly became aware of the security risks these apps posed. CSO contributor ...
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Security threats to your mobile device such as malware, fraudulent lures such as SMS spoofing, and toll fraud, are all becoming favourites of digital crooks as people move away from using PCs and toward smartphones and tablets, according to ...
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E-mail security vendors are trying to lure Postini customers now that Google has announced plans to shut down the unit and migrate its customers to Google Apps. Competitors announcing special offers for Postini customers include Barracuda ...
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Facebook on Tuesday launched a feature that allows users to lock down their Facebook accounts and perform malware scans if they suspect that their computers might be infected. Facebook already uses internal scanners to detect spam and ...
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Accusations that an Android-based botnet is spewing spam may, in fact, be no such thing, but instead a sign that criminals are exploiting bugs in the Yahoo Mail app for Google's mobile operating system, a security firm said today. ...
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Check Point Software Technologies plans to introduce document security software that encrypts and controls access to files across an organization's various departments and also meets the growing need for corporate users to access company ...
Dropbox is investigating reports that some European users are receiving spam to email addresses associated with their accounts, the company said Tuesday. Dropbox, whose cloud storage service is widely used, said in a statement that "we ...
The problem of ransom malware has reached epidemic proportions and could be extracting fraudulent payments from as many as 3 percent of victims, a Symantec report has calculated. In a world already afflicted by botnets, banking Trojans ...
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Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet, warned Internet pioneer and Google executive Vint Cerf. “The Internet is under ...
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The amount of mobile Android malware has surged this year, from a count of 30,000 malware specimens in June to almost 175,000 last month, according to Trend Micro’s Security Roundup report for the third quarter of this year. ...
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Cloud storage provider Dropbox has confirmed that usernames and passwords stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. "A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account ...
Google is rolling out a tool for Apps administrators to search through Gmail logs,the company announced on Tuesday. The feature,available in the Apps control panel,has long been requested by IT administrators of the cloud collaboration ...
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Bank employees, not customers, are now the main target of financial cyber attacks, according to the FBI. In a warning issued earlier this week, it said the latest trend by cybercriminals is to get employee login credentials, using spam ...
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