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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, interviews and articles: Fast and furious reverse engineering Tomislav Pericin is one of …

Intrusion detection systems play a vital role in network security. Central to these systems is the language used to express policies. Ideally, this language should be …

So you’ve finally accepted it’s just a matter of time before you experience your first major breach. Despite all the work you’ve put in to your monitoring …

Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery offers a no-nonsense approach to one of the most critical tasks of an operational DBA—performing, testing, and verifying backup and …

In April 2012 a series of incidents were publicly reported about a destructive malware program, codenamed Wiper, which was attacking computer systems related to a number of …

The first six months of 2012 saw continued increases of malicious infection activity and an intensified danger of email-based attacks as cybercriminals increasingly employed …

Secunia announced the Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) 6.0 which provides customers with the ability to understand and evaluate their entire threat landscape, …

Fluke Networks announced the AirMapper App, the first application for Android that provides a visual heat map of actual Wi-Fi throughput performance on smartphone and tablet …

Imation today released figures obtained through a request under the Freedom of Information Act which show that data breach numbers in the UK have increased by more than 1000% …

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America announced launch of the Big Data Working Group which will take industry ownership in addressing the need …

VKernel announced vOPS Server Standard 6.0. This release extends control into cloud environments and virtual machine (VM) performance with unified multi-data source VM issue …

There is a downward trend in IT’s ability to consistently coordinate, measure and improve security data management processes, including log management, compliance …