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Qualys and FireMon enable real-time network risk visibility
Qualys and FireMon announced the integration of QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM) and FireMon Security Manager with Risk Analyzer in FireMon’s upcoming 7.0 …
Week in review: WordPress sites under attack, Android Trojan downloaded by millions, pass-thought s instead of passwords
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos and articles: Real-world test of 21 antivirus products AV-Comparatives have released …
Research reveals damage that privacy breaches can cause
A global study of consumer attitudes towards company stewardship of personal data conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that data breaches can cause major damage …
Cloud-based email threat protection from Dell
Dell announced SonicWALL Hosted Email Security 2.0, a cloud-based service providing multi-layered email threat protection backed by 24/7 online and phone support. Dell Email …
Unlocking MS Office 2007/2010 documents
Cloud-based password unlocking service Password-Find introduced a new decrypting algorithm that unlocks half of Microsoft Office 2007/2010 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint …
Encrypted e-mail service from Silent Circle
Silent Circle announced the availability of the company’s new Silent Mail e-mail encryption service. Silent Mail addresses longstanding problems with e-mail encryption: …
Free endpoint backup for small teams
Druva introduced free IT-managed endpoint backup for groups of up to 15 users with a new edition of Druva inSync, its integrated suite of backup, file sharing, data loss …
How financial institutions can overcome the cloud security barrier
In financial services, with the hundreds of complex regulations that apply to data, private cloud adoption is still more common than the public cloud to date. However, that is …
IT decision makers mark increase in security-related incidents
More than one-third of surveyed European enterprises (36%) have experienced an increase in the frequency of network and data security-related incidents in the last 18 months, …
Most corporate computers missing critical software updates
87 percent of corporate computers are missing critical software updates that could threaten business security, according to F-Secure data from around 200,000 workstations …
AlienVault releases USM virtual appliance
AlienVault released its AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) virtual appliance, a collection of open source tools for asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, threat …
Average DDoS attack bandwidth up 718 percent
The average DDoS attack bandwidth in Q1 2013 totaled 48.25 Gbps, which is a 718 percent increase over last quarter, and the average packet-per-second rate reached 32.4 …