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McAfee Labs found that under the camouflage of “free” apps, criminals are able to get consumers to agree to invasive permissions that allow scammers to deploy …

Splunk announced the beta version of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, a new software product that integrates exploration, analysis and visualisation of data in Hadoop. Hunk …

RSA Conference announced Olympic champion, politician and former chair of the 2012 Summer Olympic & Paralympic Games, Lord Sebastian Coe to its lineup of keynote speakers …

Any successful business knows that it cannot rely solely on one market for future growth. Software companies often conduct business in multiple international markets and …

An increasing number of organizations are transferring sensitive or confidential data to the cloud despite concerns over data protection, according to the Ponemon Institute. …

SYN reflection attacks are one of the more sophisticated DDoS attack methods and typically require some skill to execute. However, they have recently grown in popularity as …

A new Ponemon eport focuses on the risks associated with employee access to regulated data, such as protected health and financial information, via company or personal mobile …

The Cylance PrivateDETECT for endpoints is now ready for broad beta consumption as limited time freeware. Cylance’s technological approach is to apply big math and …

With revelations about mass surveillance in the news everywhere, an obscure feature of SSL/TLS called forward secrecy has suddenly become very interesting. So what is it, and …

Eighty percent of C-level executives and IT security professionals believe that cyber attacks pose a greater risk to their nation than physical attacks, while 51 percent …

Building a cloud security policy is a crucial step to take before diving into the cloud to ensure maximum benefits are achieved and data is secure. But some organizations, in …

Mozilla released Firefox 22, which includes 14 security updates: four are critical, six high, three moderate and one low. Fixed in this version: MFSA 2013-62 Inaccessible …