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69 percent of IT professionals experience phishing attacks at least once a week, with customer data cited most often as the type of data attacked, followed by financial …

Every business needs a clearly articulated position on BYOD, even if it chooses not to allow for it. What’s your position? Do you even have one? If you’re …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, interviews and articles: Securing the U.S. electrical grid The Center for the Study of …

When it comes to security, only a total dope doesn’t understand firewalls, anti-virus and at least the basics of passwords. But how many end users, indeed how many IT …

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner automatically checks your web applications for SQL Injection, XSS and other web vulnerabilities. Features: AcuSensor Technology SQL …

Online payment services and crypto-currency sites are being targeted by phishers. The number of phishing attacks remained high, and the second quarter of 2014 saw the …

As an active adventure gamer and a natural seeker of reusable patterns, I’ve noticed that some of the things I do to achieve success in video games can be applied to …

A growing number of data breaches and security incidents can be directly linked to poor code quality, according to CAST. The data reveals finance and retail industry …

The IEEE Center for Secure Design, a cybersecurity initiative focused on the identification of software design flaws, released a report based on real-world data collected and …

You’ve probably heard the phrase about “canaries in a coal mine.” In the mid 1900s, a guy named John Haldane figured out that birds die pretty quickly when …

The former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was convicted by a federal jury in the District of Nebraska of engaging in a …

Blue Coat researchers analyzed more than 660 million unique hostnames requested by 75 million global users over a 90-day period. They found that 71 percent of the hostnames, …