Microsoft might stop updating Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus software on systems running Windows XP after next April's support cut-off, the company has suggested. So far this is little more than?a statement?sent to a news ...
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Spear phishing is one of the most effective ways to break into a corporate network – and recent studies show that employees can be easily tricked on social media to provide the information needed to launch attacks. A phishing attack ...
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Most organisations are failing to put the necessary protections around data in virtual environments, leaving them wide open to attack, says Jason Hart, vice-president cloud solutions, SafeNet. "In the virtual world, the basic security ...
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"Technology should be irrelevant," says Gavin Walker, CIO of the UK's air traffic control business, NATS. Walker is a firm believer in focusing on what IT can enable, rather than the technology for its own sake. As CIO, he heads a ...
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Security system designers need to start taking into account the differences in users, according to Hugh Thompson, RSA Conference programme committee chair. "They need to build technologies that respect those differences because people ...
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UK targeted attacks have gone from four a year to 500 a day in just two years, according to Misha Glenny, security author and journalist. "But it is not just big corporations that are being targeted, attackers are going after everyone in ...
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Microsoft has announced a free tool for organisations to assess their security readiness for cloud computing. A survey commissioned by the company revealed that the top barriers to cloud adoption are concerns about the ability to deal ...
Big data and intelligence-driven security are to be the focus of the RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London next month. Three of the keynote sessions are related to these topics and they are represented in just about every time slot of the ...
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