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Imperva announced its predictions for the top cyber security trends for 2012. The analysis is designed to help companies shield themselves from the threat of hackers and …

Kaspersky Virus Scanner is a new lightweight application to secure Mac computers, available from the Mac App Store. Kaspersky Virus Scanner detects and removes both Mac and …

According to industry estimates, as many as 90 percent of successful attacks are against vulnerabilities in which a patch already exists. Despite this statistic, many …

Sourcefire announced its Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) which combines IPS threat prevention, integrated application control and firewall capabilities in a high-performance …

Cyber criminals are launching more and more sophisticated attacks on U.S. wireless consumers. Research reveals that financial fraud and spam via SMS texts is now growing at a …

IT security staff will be some of the most informed people at the office Christmas party this year. A full 26 per cent of them admit to using their privileged log in rights to …

The imminent reform of the European Data Protection Directive could be ineffective in the short term and place further financial and security burdens upon European businesses …

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 …

Bitdefender announced the availability of a new tool that identifies the presence of the controversial mobile network diagnostic tool from Carrier IQ. Dubbed Carrier IQ …

UK businesses are still ill-prepared to deal with downtime and unexpected disruption to operations, says ControlCircle. A recent survey of 100 CIOs/COOs/IT heads identified …

IEEE launched a study group to investigate a new PHY (Physical Layer) standard for operating the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) protocol transparently over coaxial …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and podcasts: Anonymous bloggers in danger of being exposed You’re a blogger who, for …