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Free online tool teaches IT security procedures
AVG Technologies launched SMB BootCamp, a free, online tool to help SMBs demonstrate to customers that their company is seriously committed to following AVG’s …
Week in review: Facebook privacy loophole, Duqu still active, the world of vulnerability sellers
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, videos and articles: US govt and military email addresses offered for sale Webroot has …
Securing SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint enables information sharing and report publishing. It also provides a search facility for users to find content. The problem is that, all too easily, any …
Plan to reduce botnets launched
More than one in ten U.S. computers are infected by difficult-to-detect bots, which botmasters can use for anything from sending spam, to eavesdropping on network traffic, to …
Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies – and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone …
Data breach vulnerabilities in the workplace
Many business professionals don’t realize that when their company’s confidential information is at risk, so too is the information of its clients, vendors, …
LockPath and Qualys partner on risk intelligence
LockPath, a provider of GRC applications, and Qualys, a provider of cloud information security and compliance management solutions, announced an integration partnership to …
Voice analysis technology prevents phone scams
Nagoya University and Fujitsu developed the first technology to analyze phone conversations to automatically detect situations in which one party might “over …
Top U.S. cities for phone loss
The findings from a phone loss study revealed that lost phones, if unrecovered, could cost U.S. consumers more than $30 billion this year. The analysis, from more than 15 …
Top cause of data breaches? Negligent insiders
Negligent insiders are the top cause of data breaches while malicious attacks are 25 percent more costly than other types, according to the Ponemon Institute. The study also …
Surge in mobile exploits and shell command injection attacks
IBM released the results of its X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report which shows surprising improvements in several areas of Internet security such as a reduction in application …
Video surveillance on Cisco Unified Computing System
Cisco announced that its Video Surveillance software is available on the Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform, now in use by more than 11,000 customers. Cisco …
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