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A former Bank of America (BOA) computer programmer was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for unauthorized access to the financial institution’s protected …

The increasing use of smart cards and biometric capture has changed the way government and healthcare citizen ID documentation is viewed, managed and deployed. Many …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Five ways to migrate applications to the cloud Organizations seeking to move …

Cyber criminals have capitalized on the recent growth in popularity of the Android mobile platform. Based on the number of new mobile malware signatures detected during this …

DOMinator is a Firefox based software for analysis and identification of DOM based Cross Site Scripting issues (DOMXss). It is the first runtime tool which can help security …

IT procurement or sourcing managers challenged with finding sourcing options that reduce costs at tolerable risks should examine nine contractual terms to reduce risk in cloud …

nCircle announced in collaboration with HITRUST the debut of PureCloud, a security scanning technology, and the integration of PureCloud into the HITRUST CSF Assessment for …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 is now available. Enhancements provide improvements in system reliability, scalability and performance, coupled with support for upcoming system …

A weakness has been reported in OpenSSL, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, according to Secunia. The weakness is caused …

VM Explorer is a management tool that eases management, backup and disaster recovery tasks in your VMware ESX environment. Backups can be stored on ESX, Windows, Linux and …

With BlackBerries occupying approximately 40 per cent of the North American market of business communicators and about 20 per cent of the market worldwide, accessing …

Financial services organizations struggle with human error, abuse of privileges more than most. Application Security, Unisphere Research, and the International Sybase Users …