Cloud storage provider Dropbox has confirmed that usernames and passwords stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. "A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account ...
Phil Shoesmith, head of IT for the Alzheimer's Society charity, has called on Salesforce to keep its promise to build a datacentre in the European Union (EU). The Alzheimer's Society helps 100,000 suffers of dementia in England, Wales and ...
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Glasgow City Council has been slammed for losing more than 700 laptops and PCs in a probe into the body’s security malpractice. The council has lost 256 unencrypted laptops and nearly 450 PCs. It also has a further 541 unencrypted ...
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Cloud computing is a potential game-changer for SMEs, according to IT consortium, the Open Group. But most SMEs find the technology confusing and are unsure how to implement it, said the group of suppliers, users and academics. ...
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Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are real and all companies should be taking them seriously, says telecommunications company AT&T. In the past year, the company has set up an IT security team dedicated to researching APTs and making ...
TITUS,the leading provider of security and data governance solutions,has been selected for the second consecutive year as a finalist for the Microsoft Public Sector-Public Safety and National Security Partner of the Year Award. "We are ...
Just over half of IT professionals who focus on cloud computing do not trust cloud services for any of their personal data,a survey has revealed. Some 86%of those polled by Lieberman Software said they do not trust the cloud for their ...
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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Almost half of the businesses in the European Union (EU) have provided employees with a portable device to give them the opportunity to work remotely. This was the main finding of a new study from Eurostat – the EU's statistical ...
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The collaboration enables secure computing experiences and expands the security ecosystem Semiconducter firm AMD has partnered with chip maker ARM to build a platform security processor using ARM's Cortex-A5 TrustZone technology which ...
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Cloud-based intelligence databases Customised risk tolerance Signature approach combined with local behavioral analysis Protecting systems offline File-scanning misses the big picture Read more about cloud and security Security continues ...
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NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a"large"number of people was recently stolen. Agency employees were told of the October 31 theft of the ...
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"I don't think IT realizes how much the way we live life as individuals has completely permeated the enterprise,"says Margaret Dawson,vice president of product management at Symform."This is happening whether you want it to or not." ...
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IBM,Good Technology and several other mobile device and app management software vendors today separately announced a variety of new or enhanced products. The announcements primarily focus on providing tools and services to help IT shops ...
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Infoworld - Thinking about the bits of data you leave behind is a one-way ticket to paranoia. Your browser? Full of cookies. Your cellphone? A beacon broadcasting your location at every moment. Search engines track your every curiosity. ...
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