Under the helm of its new CEO, Steve Bennett, Symantec last week outlined a re-organisation intended to lead to a leaner company and a new range of security and back-up services and products. These products would be built primarily on ...
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The European Commission’s latest cyber security strategy has been slammed by a member of the European Parliament, who accused the strategy of being “incoherent and lacking in focus” on Thursday. The Cyber Security ...
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Security software provider Symantec is reworking its sales strategy, reorganizing software lines, slimming middle management and increasing marketing and research efforts. Symantec will make these changes over the next 6 to 24 months, the ...
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Banks and other financial institutions in the US have been told to establish a "risk management programme" for social media to ensure that key staff do not inadvertently release sensitive information. The programme would ensure that they ...
Sony has received a record £250,000 fine from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as punishment for the PlayStation Network (PSN) hack that took place in April 2011. The electronics firm says it "strongly disagrees" with the ...
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Governments around the world are requesting more information about internet users than ever before. That's according to statistics released by Google in its latest bi-annual transparency report. In the second half of 2012, the operator ...
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Google has reported a "steady increase" in government requests to hand over data from internet users in the second half of 2012. The web giant's semiannual "transparency report" showed the most requests came from the United States, with ...
Many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the Virut malware were disabled last week in a coordinated takedown effort, Spamhaus, an organization dedicated to fighting spam, announced Saturday. ...
The Virut botnet suffered a major setback last week, after it was announced that many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the malware had been disabled. This was the result of coordinated ...
The chief information security officers (CISOs) of Network Rail, Commerzbank and law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse have slated bigger security software vendors for lagging behind smaller rivals in mobile security. In a panel discussion ...
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LONDON, ENGLAND, January 13, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- As part of its commitment to continually improving the quality and security of the data it works with, the GeoPlace management team is dedicated to maintaining the organisation's ...
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For all the apocalyptic prognostications, 2012 turned out to be a relatively uneventful year from an information security standpoint. A cyber Pearl Harbor did not happen. Stuxnet and its kin did not take out any power grids or shut down ...
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Egress Software Technologies have recently announced that they have signed up to exhibit at Infosecurity Europe from 23-25th April 2013, this will be the first time Egress will be exhibiting at the event. Infosecurity Europe is the number ...
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Security analysts this week challenged South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's defense of the state's information security practices in the wake of a data breach at the S.C. Department of Revenue that exposed the Social Security Numbers ...
Computer security conferences tend to be male-dominated affairs. It's not that women aren't present, but just not anywhere near their normal proportional representation in society. To address the disparity, the Power of Community ...
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