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Metasploit now enables security professionals to exploit Cisco devices, performs passive reconnaissance through traffic analysis, provides more exploits and evaluates an …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Today Microsoft released 17 security bulletins which address 40 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server and Exchange. This …

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 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, …

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 …

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 …