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Dataguise highlighted recent research and analysis showing that de-identification through data masking is an important aspect of a company’s overall risk assessment …

Confident KillSwitch is an authentication technology that can identify and proactively defend against brute force attacks on account logins, password reset processes, …

Windows 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition is updated with 300+ new pages of information for working with Windows 7. This comprehensive reference to Windows 7 packs hundreds of …

I’m assuming the majority of people are sitting smugly reading this thinking “of course I haven’t!’ You do everything you’re supposed to do, …

The PHP development team released PHP 5.3.8. This release fixes two issues introduced in the PHP 5.3.7 release: Fixed bug #55439 (crypt() returns only the salt for MD5) …

Hackers are increasingly viewing home routers as a means of gaining access to sensitive personal data. To help combat this threat, ICSA Labs is offering a new program under …

When a company doesn’t fully define what the cloud can do for it, it leads to a less-than-optimized strategy that under serves the organization. To help IT pros avoid …

The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing serves as an introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test or perform an ethical hack. You learn how to …

The amount of malware targeted at Android devices jumped 76 percent since last quarter, to become the most attacked mobile operating system, according to McAfee. 2011 has also …

Rapid7 created a $100,000 investment fund to support up to seven promising open source projects in the security industry. The “Magnificent7” projects will be …

61 percent of consumers click on links while online that take them to unexpected places, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks that can lead to identity theft, according to …

Trusteer discovered the 18 month old file infecting worm Win32.Ramnit has morphed into financial malware and is actively attacking banks to commit online fraud. Ramnit …