Computerworld - A senior Democratic lawmaker is urging President Barack Obama to issue an executive order aimed at protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against cyber threats. In an open letter to the President on Tuesday, Sen. ...
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Even as IT pros wrestle with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, corporate security is being further complicated by another emerging trend: bring your own network (BYON). BYON is a by-product of increasingly common technology that ...
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IT Governance Ltd, the PCI and information security experts, have reported that organisations required to comply with the PCI DSS standard, are increasingly deploying PCI DSS Staff Awareness e-learning to meet requirement 12.6 of the ...
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The Olympic Games in London have sparked interest from fraudsters, with a raft of sites supposedly offering live video streams of events, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro called out on Sunday more than a dozen sites ...
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IT departments must be prepared to renegotiate IT support and invest in mobile device management (MDM) to support staff using their own devices at work. A survey of 3,796 consumers across 17 different countries by analyst Ovum has found ...
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Normally if you find a rogue outlet strip, or a user happens to bring his or her own surge protector to use you might not think much of it. Thanks to a new device called the Power Pwn, though, it might soon be cause for concern. A company ...
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined 120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. A solicitor that worked within the organisation was found to have sent 11 emails containing ...
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Government departments have been given the go-ahead to use iPhones to send and receive sensitive emails, as part of moves to broaden the number of approved public sector mobile devices beyond BlackBerrys. Under new guidelines, civil ...
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As the trend for using mobiles in the workplace continues to grow, a new study has found a huge volume of data is being lost by employees taking advantage of the technology. The research from Kroll Ontrack claimed one in eight employees ...
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Emarsys a leading provider of email, social and mobile marketing automation solutions is proud to announce that it is now ISO 27001 certified. One of the only email service providers to be granted the highest level of security ...
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US space agency Nasa is to encrypt all its mobile computers after the loss of a laptop containing personal information about more than 10,000 employees and contractors. Until the encryption process is complete, staff members are forbidden ...
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VASCO Data Security Inc, a leading software security company specializing in authentication products, announced that Lebes Stores, one of the largest department stores in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the South of Brazil, has chosen to ...
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The hand of government is not all that heavy on businesses when it comes to notification requirements about data breaches that affect personal information. And it looks like it won't get much heavier, even if a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. ...
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LetMobile , a leading provider of Secure Corporate Collaboration Solutions for Personal Mobile Devices, today announced a new version of its Secure Mobile E-mail Gateway product. LetMobile is the first to offer a gateway-based DLP and ...
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WinMagic Inc., the innovator in data security and encryption solutions, recently announced a strategic agreement with Interwork Technologies Inc. to distribute WinMagic's SecureDoc Data Encryption and Security software in North America. ...
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