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Managers don’t understand the power of IT

While the world is distracted with the continuing reports of phone hacking practices and other corporate data breaches, it is revealed that hundreds of organizations are now …

First OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud solution

Dell announced the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution, which integrates the OpenStack cloud operating system, cloud-optimized Dell PowerEdge C servers, the Dell-developed …

Samba XSS and request forgery vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks. 1. The Samba Web …

22% in US admit to potential abuse of private data

22% of US, 29% of Australian and 48% of British employees who have access to their employer’s or client’s private data, would feel comfortable doing something with …

Phishing attacks on Facebook intensify

There was a significant increase in the amount of phishing attacks on Facebook, as well as other social networking sites such as Habbo in June, according to the latest spam …

Metasploit Pro 4.0 released

Rapid7 launched Metasploit Pro 4.0, a penetration testing solution that provides security professionals with a better view of their threat landscape by integrating with more …

Entrust strengthens mobile security with device authentication

In an era when mobile devices are commonplace, Entrust introduces a straightforward method for adding digital certificates to mobile devices – and with little management …

New OAuth toolkit

Layer 7 Technologies unveiled its OAuth Toolkit, an enterprise-class solution to provide a generalized framework for handling a broad range of OAuth scenarios across cloud, …

Mac OS X Lion login password easily revealed

Mac OS X stores user login passwords in system memory even if the computer is locked or put into a sleep mode. The vulnerability is present in all modern versions of Mac OS X, …

SpyEye Trojan country hit list

The number of financial institutions targeted by the SpyEye Trojan is growing, according to Trusteer. Risk analysis teams have also observed an increase in the number of …

Apple releases iOS 4.3.5

Apple released iOS 4.3.5, which can be downloaded and installed using iTunes. A certificate chain validation issue existed in the handling of X.509 certificates. An attacker …

Enterprises fail to control mobile access

The results of a Courion survey of 988 IT decision makers at large organizations indicate that whilst organizations are confident that they can assure appropriate user access …

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