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McAfee to acquire Stonesoft
McAfee and Stonesoft today announced a definitive agreement to initiate a conditional tender offer for the acquisition of Stonesoft for approximately $389 million in cash. …
No strategy for data protection?
While financial services organizations are obligated to establish and report stringent service availability objectives for mission-critical systems, they are actually among …
Cain & Abel 4.9.44 released
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …
Week in review: Google Glass hacked, Bitcoin risks, and why we need security awareness training programs
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Info of 50M LivingSocial customers compromised following breach …
Multi-stage exploit attacks for more effective malware delivery
Most drive-by exploit kits use a minimal exploit shellcode that downloads and runs the final payload. This is akin to a two-stage ICBM (InterContinental Ballistic Missile) …
Trojans account for 80% of malware infections
PandaLabs today published its report analyzing the IT security events and incidents from January through March 2013. In the first quarter of 2013 alone, more than six and a …
Ex employee hacked into high-voltage power manufacturer’s network
A criminal complaint was unsealed on Thursday in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Michael Meneses – who was arrested earlier that day in …
Do young people care about privacy?
Everywhere I go, I hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to …
Is network monitoring dead?
Network monitoring is dead, says the CEO of cPacket Networks; that is, unless network monitoring solutions become agile enough to deliver real-time visibility, while keeping …
EiQ Networks launches SOCVue service
EiQ Networks announced SOCVue, a new remote management service. With this development organizations can now leverage EiQ’s SOC team expertise and knowledge to protect …
Fake AV scammers impersonate Microsoft
Cyber scammers continue to impersonate Microsoft and try to trick users into believing that their computer is serious need of an AV solution. Webroot researchers have spotted …
Serious website vulnerabilities continue to decrease
A new WhiteHat Security report has correlated vulnerability data from tens of thousands of websites from more than 650 organizations, with software development lifecycle …