The Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked today and a bogus tweet was sent claiming President Obama had been hurt in an explosion. The AP's media relations' department tweeted around 1:40 p.m. ET today, "Advisory: @AP Twitter ...
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Dell on Monday unveiled its SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 Series next-generation firewall. The solution provides advanced threat protection at multi-gigabit speeds with “near-zero” latency, Dell said in a statement. Unlike ...
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Mozilla is taking steps to limit the risk of powerful subordinate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates falling into the hands of attackers and potentially being used to issue rogue certificates for use in SSL snooping attacks. The ...
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A report released National Audit Office revealed that the UK IT skills shortage means that Britain could have trouble defending itself from cyber attacks over the next 20 years. The UK was hit by over 40 million cyber attacks in 2011 ...
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Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will start shipping in October, although it isn't clear if they will be available in the U.S., according to a report. Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical Ltd., told CIO ...
Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more secure than those of desktop or laptop computers, a report has found. Blue Coat ...
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IDG News Service - Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate ...
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Implementation problems limit the adoption of encryption by some users but still highly popular among businesses for the protection of sensitive data. Almost half of businesses worldwide have started using ...
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New software from Web security specialists Blue Coat Systems allows companies to restrict what employees can do on their cellphones while logged into the corporate Wi-Fi. The software, which works with Blue Coat's ProxySG Web filtering ...
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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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Businesses have been urged to prepare for the arrival of HTML5 – the technology that underpins the next generation of the web. Organisations should start evaluating HTML5 now and assess its effect on customers' web browsing ...
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European businesses will only need three quarters of a desk per employee by 2020 due to the impact of remote working. According to a survey of almost 2,000 senior IT decision makers commissioned by Citrix, large organisations are already ...
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More employees of the ‘Generation Y’ age group are ducking IT policies to use their personal devices and applications at work than corporations realise. A study from Cisco, conducted by InsightExpress, showed 53% of IT ...
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F5 and Webroot have announced a partnership to tie-up their networking and security offerings to protect enterprise applications from external threats. The deal will see F5 incorporate Webroot's IP Reputation Services into its Traffic ...
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Only 8% of European companies plan to decrease spending on antivirus and antimalware in 2013, a survey of IT security purchasing intentions has revealed. Some 21% of more than 250 IT professionals polled by Computer Weekly and TechTarget ...
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