The majority of IT departments might accept employees are using their tablets and smartphones in the workplace, but less than a quarter have policies to control it. This was the finding of new research published by LANDesk today. Of the ...
Tags: tablets, smartphones, software, personal devices
Data security breaches across private-and public-sector organisations in the UK have risen by an average of 1,000 per cent over the past five years,according to figures obtained from the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). According ...
Tags: UK, ICO, Data security, Imation, Data breaches
Next month the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)plans to put out for public review its draft for a new government encryption standard that,when finalized,is going to compel federal agencies with older websites to replace ...
Tags: NIST, EV certificates, encryption standard, TLS, PIV
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 ...
Tags: security breaches, social media, mobile technologies, security systems
Fraudsters exchanged 12 million pieces of personal information online in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 300% since 2010, according to credit-checking firm Experian. The company said many people were unaware their identity had ...
Tags: Online Identity Theft, credit-checking, credit cards, passwords
More than a century after General Electric Co. (GE) built its first research laboratory in an upstate New York barn, it’s wooing Silicon Valley engineers in a bid to connect machines the way Facebook Inc. (FB) links people. New hires ...
Tags: market view, Disruptor'