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Ten tips for smartphone security
With the holiday season in full swing, more people are using their smartphone for tasks such as last minute shopping, accessing bank accounts, connecting with friends or …
Network access control system PacketFence 2.0 released
PacketFence is a free and open source network access control (NAC) system. It can be used to effectively secure networks – from small to very large heterogeneous …
Delivering security on employees’ personal laptops
To refresh, or not to refresh? This is the dilemma that many corporations are facing. In an effort to reduce IT budgets, companies are cutting capital expenditure on new …
Insiders are most often responsible for data loss
IT managers see insider threat as the biggest danger when it came to data loss within corporate networks (54 percent), according to a survey by Imperva. Far fewer respondents …
Microsoft November Patch Tuesday bottom line
In the video below, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek and Qualys vulnerability labs manager Amol Sarwate discusses this month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday release. To learn more …
Lack of awareness for PCI DSS 2.0
New research by LogLogic has indicated that 13.8 percent of respondents are completely unaware of the new version and 15.5 percent confirm they are only partially aware of it. …
Microsoft patches record 40 vulnerabilities
Today Microsoft released 17 security bulletins which address 40 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server and Exchange. This …
2010: The year of the vulnerability
The year 2010 has been almost identical to the previous one in terms of malware evolution. Generally speaking, trends have not changed that much and nor have the targets for …
Hacktivism and social engineering emerge as top threats
Hacktivism and more profit-oriented malware, social engineering and malicious codes with the ability to adapt to avoid detection will be the main threats in the coming year, …
Top wireless security trends for 2011
Today’s security needs are different than they were a decade ago. People are ‘connected’ thanks to mobile devices so they can stay linked to their security …
Smart grid cyber security in 2011: Untenable meets intractable
In the presentation below, you can listen to Andy Bochman, the Energy Security Lead at IBM, looking back and looking forward on smart grid cyber security. Andy takes a look at …
Metasploit achieves CVE compliance
Rapid7 announced that Metasploit Pro and Metasploit Express have achieved Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) compliance. CVE associates unique identifiers to security …
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