Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, an underwriting manager, has enhanced its kidnap, ransom and extortion insurance coverage with an updated endorsement, the “Schinnerer Enhanced Endorsement.” Effective immediately, the ...
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Apple is probably one of the few companies that can pull off a price increase. The new iPad Mini starts at $399, or $70 more than last year's model. For that price, you get a leap forward in power, speed and display. There are plenty of ...
Costa has signed an agreement with big data analytics firm Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) to license APT's Test & Learn Management System. Costa will use the system to test strategic initiatives across its network of over 1,600 ...
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Mobile management vendors including Good Technology and MobileIron are increasing their efforts to pitch Android and iOS as alternatives to BlackBerry, thanks to improved security and management tools. On Monday, BlackBerry announced it ...
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Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products. Unlike other bug bounty programmes, the ...
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The FBI has offered large rewards for information that could help them catch a clutch of alleged cyber-criminals. They include an El Salvadoran national accused of selling a Trojan designed to spy on husbands or wives believed by their ...
Vodafone has launched its Secure Device Management solution in Qatar, which it claims will help businesses better protect their company data with in-country support. It says the service will enable IT managers and administrators within an ...
Trend Micro’s Integrated Data Loss Prevention product has won DLP Solution of the Year at the prestigious Computing Security Awards. The internet security specialist was handed the award at a ceremony in London’s Russell Hotel ...
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Storage provider WD today unveiled its latest personal cloud device; My Cloud. My Cloud allows users to access any information from anywhere, and contains folder level access for individuals, meaning an administrator can control which ...
Over a quarter of businesses are not equipped to deal with the convergence of new technologies, including mobility, social networks, big data, cloud computing and the Internet of Things, according to research from international standards ...
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Malicious software aimed at stealing online banking credentials surged in the third quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2002, according to a new report from Trend Micro. The security vendor said it counted more than 200,000 new ...
Security researchers have uncovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) which have been exploited by attackers in an unusual “watering hole” campaign launched from a U.S.-based website that specialises in ...
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IT professionals have plenty of reasons to be thankful these days: rising budgets, salaries and job tenures among them. But when it comes to IT management and spending priorities, they often don’t see eye-to-eye with their ...
In light of Typhoon Haiyan, security vendor Symantec has warned the public to remain vigilant following a series of online charity scams. Over 10,000 people have died as a result of the disaster, which has decimated Leyte and Samar ...
The website of a U.S. organisation specialising in national and international security policy was compromised with malware that targeted a previously unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer. A nation-state looking to compromise the ...
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