Infoworld - Thinking about the bits of data you leave behind is a one-way ticket to paranoia. Your browser? Full of cookies. Your cellphone? A beacon broadcasting your location at every moment. Search engines track your every curiosity. ...
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McAfee is the latest information security supplier to admit that the challenges facing organisations are so great that it will take cross-industry collaboration to turn the tide. A cross-industry approach is being advocated by other big ...
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Small to medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)suffer more from malware than larger organisations,but their security procedures are lagging behind,says security firm,Kaspersky Lab. SMEs are typically more vulnerable to viruses,worms,spyware and ...
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Only around 13% of organisations are aware that printers and multi-function devices represent a threat to information security, Xerox has claimed. "Many organisations do not even realise that these devices are connected to the internet," ...
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Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
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Today's security systems are not ready for an always on, always connected world, says McAfee CTO Michael Fey. "McAfee understands that security technology has to evolve very rapidly, but also that organisations can't rip out what they ...
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Will U.S.regulators balk over Japan-based SoftBank becoming a 70%owner of Sprint,based in Overland Park,Kansas.? On the surface,analysts say the foreign ownership issue is unlikely to derail the$20.1 billion deal. Sprint and others ...
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A White House executive order on cyber security is "close to completion," according to Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security. The news comes just weeks after former White House cyber security chief Howard Schmidt said US ...
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The government has ramped up moves to tackle growing cyber security threats by launching a£3.8m research institute. The research institute in the science of cyber security will act as a virtual organisation bringing together ...
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Security researchers have spotted a new Java vulnerability in the wild for which there is no security patch as yet. The Java vulnerability, which is being used forC, allows attackers to use a custom web page to force systems to download ...
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The value of data to cyber criminals Plan for cyber attacks Defence in depth against cyber attack Comprehensive approach to APTs Stuxnet,Duqu,Flame,and Gauss have nothing to do with businesses that are not involved in finance and critical ...
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Nearly a quarter of the world's banks were hit by security breaches in the past year, a study shows. Top threats include vulnerabilities in mobile technologies and social media, financial fraud and "hacktivist" groups, according to the ...
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Security firm Stonesoft has released an Advanced Evasion Technique (AET) defence system and testing tool in quick succession. Stonesoft describes AETs as a new generation of hacking techniques that enable malware, viruses, worms and other ...
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Ancient military wisdom dictates that defenders need to know themselves as well as their enemy, and this can be applied to defending information security today, says security firm Websense. In building effective IT defences, businesses ...
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