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Most cloud services are putting businesses at risk
A new Skyhigh Networks report analyzes usage data from more than one million users across more than 40 companies spanning the financial services, healthcare, high technology, …
The state of remote access security
At the end of 2013, HOB conducted a survey of more than 200 CIOs and CTOs in the U.S. The survey quantified the trends and challenges IT decision makers experience when …
The digital universe will reach 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020
A new EMC study reveals how the emergence of wireless technologies, smart products and software-defined businesses are playing a central role in catapulting the volume of the …
Universities now have access to cybersecurity education
(ISC)2 is making its educational resources, which are updated regularly by its members and industry luminaries, available to academia to help meet the global demand for more …
Breaches expose 552 million identities in 2013
After lurking in the shadows for the first ten months of 2013, cybercriminals unleashed the most damaging series of cyberattacks in history. Symantec’s Internet Security …
TCG releases TPM 2.0 specification for device security
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has announced the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 library specification, which provides a technology response to the global need for a more …
Lie detection technology that accurately reads eye behavior
A company has discovered how to not just open the window to the soul via one’s eyes, but also accurately determine whether or not that soul is lying. For years, …
Demand for security and Big Data experts grows
A new survey by TEKsystems compares current market conditions to the state of spending, skills needs, and impact areas. The survey represents the views of 244 IT leaders …
Email management lacks innovation, businesses turn to cloud
SolarWinds released survey results highlighting the growing challenge organizations face managing email in an increasingly complex environment where BYOx, mobility and other …
Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability: A technical remediation
OpenSSL released an bug advisory about a 64kb memory leak patch in their library. The bug has been assigned CVE-2014-0160 TLS heartbeat read overrun. According to OpenSSL, the …
WordPress releases important security update
WordPress 3.8.2 is now available. This is an important security release for all previous versions and you should update immediately. This releases fixes a weakness that could …
Universities are a rich target for hackers
In 2013, HALOCK Security Labs noted information security vulnerabilities at colleges and universities along with numerous challenges that plague these institutions across the …