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A new IDC report highlights how the widespread use of collaborative content technologies is fueling the aggressive growth of unstructured and semi-structured data. While …

Software-plus-service (S+S) and Software-as-a-service (SaaS) are next-generation software solutions for a number of today’s applications. Implementation flexibility, …

The Open Group Security Forum completed a major risk management initiative with the publication of the Cookbook for ISO/IEC 27005:2005 (registration required). The cookbook is …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Moldovan fraud ring mastermind arrested A coordinated effort of the Irish gardai and …

Continuing a trend observed since last summer, the same types of Trojan horse programs have persistently dominated the threat landscape through February, according to GFI …

Every year, cybercriminals steal billions of dollars from unsuspecting computer users and companies by committing credit card fraud. Although this activity was once relegated …

A group of young internet fraudsters who set up an online criminal forum which traded unlawfully obtained credit card details and tools to commit computer offences were jailed …

Attackers are making a shift from using e-mail spam to more aggressively targeting the Internet, according to Barracuda Network. E-mail spam dropped by half during 2010, while …

Barracuda Labs analyzed more than 26 million Twitter accounts in order to measure and analyze account behavior. The analysis enabled researchers to model normal user behavior …

According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month. Trojans were …

iTunes 10.2 comes with several new features, improvements and security fixes. ImageIO libpng is updated to version 1.4.3 to address multiple vulnerabilities, the most serious …

Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. Wireshark 1.4.4 fixes the following vulnerabilities: …