Insurance broker R K Harrison has teamed up with Stroz Friedberg, a global digital risk management firm, to offer complimentary pre-incident consulting services for clients purchasing cyber liability policies through R K Harrison. Apart ...
Up to 10 percent of mobile apps expose user passwords and login names, 25 percent expose personally identifiable information and 40 percent communicate with third parties, according to research results released today by ThreatLabZ, a ...
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Big data analytics has the potential to reduce the growing number of cyber security risks and increase business agility, says a report by the Information Security Forum (ISF). According to the Data Analytics for Information Security ...
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A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is advising U.S. firms to buy networking gear from other vendors. ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft launched a new anti-piracy campaign in China to highlight the security risks of buying counterfeit software. In a recent investigation,Microsoft purchased 169 PCs from shops in China and found that all were ...
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Two internet privacy groups have responded to Facebook's published intentions to share its data with recently-acquired Instagram,as well as eliminate a user voting system and loosen restrictions on who can email users with unsolicited ...
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In its November 2012 Blue Coat Mobility Study,the company surveyed 350 respondents and found that most organizations allow employees access to company email(83 percent)and instant messaging(56 percent)on personal devices,but only a fraction ...
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Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft said Thursday it will team up with Japan's largest mobile operator,NTT DoCoMo,to push Windows 8 on tablets to corporate customers. The companies said they will work together to come up with business solutions ...
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One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
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Only 6%of UK citizens think the government has made a clear and compelling argument for the Draft Data Communications Bill,a survey has revealed. In contrast,71%of more than 1,800 adults polled said they do not trust that the data will be ...
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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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IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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