Security company, FireEye, has announced a new threat protection platform designed to help enterprises deploy new security models to counter modern cyber attacks. Many traditional defences, such as firewalls and anti-virus, are not enough ...
Anti-virus software vendors have unveiled a number of upgrades to their systems, including new heuristic detection based on their signature databases, and new protections against botnets. Trend Micro has introduced new tools in its Custom ...
Despite the usual industry hype over NFC (near field communication) at MWC this year, SAP's SVP of mobile solution management, Nick Brown, still believes the touch data technology is overhyped. "I think NFC is interesting, but it's just ...
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust has issued an IT services tender worth between £50m and £80m over five years. In a notice on the Official Journal of the European Union, the trust said that it wants to ...
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Arms vendors are moving into the cyber security sector in response to a decline in sales of their traditional weapons, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute It is the first time that annual arms sales have ...
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McAfee is enhancing its business security platform by adding near real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and by integrating it with its security information and event management (SIEM) product to automatically ...
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A String of cyber attacks on major US media outlets has intensified worries over Chinese hackers, who analysts say are probably linked to the secretive Beijing government. The attacks, part of a series of incidents traced to Chinese ...
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IT applications integrator and reseller 2e2 has entered administration, after weeks of negotiations with investors failed to find a solution for the Berkshire-based firm's £270m debts. Some 319 UK sales and admin staff have already ...
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Under the helm of new CEO Steve Bennett, Symantec late yesterday outlined a re-organization intended to lead to a leaner company and a new range of security and backup services and products, built primarily on internal research and ...
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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Symantec plans to cut over 1,000 jobs as part of a shake-up at the Californian anti-virus software firm, reports suggest. The firm, which yesterday released rather positive trading results, announced a streamlined corporate strategy that ...
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A Canadian think tank called on Tuesday for continued scrutiny of U.S. security vendor Blue Coat Systems after a new technical analysis showed wide use of its products in countries with human rights and censorship concerns. The Citizen ...
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Despite the introduction of "chip-and-pin" security, payment card fraud across the European Union cost some €1.5bn (£1.2bn) in 2012, according to the latest figures from Europol. While chip-and-pin has helped to reduce card ...
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Software engineers working for the US military will have to follow new testing procedures to reduce the risk of security flaws in their code. That is one of a number of computer security-related measures contained in the 2013 National ...
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Computerworld - Fugitive antivirus technology pioneer John McAfee, who is wanted for questioning by police in Belize in connection with a murder in that country several weeks ago, has been detained by immigration police in Guatemala for ...
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