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While credit card data breaches remain all too common, a new report from Verizon Business shows that following industry security standards can dramatically reduce such …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, articles and interviews: 60% of organizations suffered $2 million losses for Web 2.0 …

Most Internet users are only two clicks away from malicious content from top sites, poisoned search results, and malicious links, according to Websense. The path to malware …

The OSSEC team announced the general availability of OSSEC version 2.5. What’s new? Added support for “report_changes” on syscheck to show what was changed …

Adobe is planning to release updates for Adobe Reader 9.3.4 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 8.2.4 and Acrobat …

Manhattan U.S. Attorney charged 37 defendants, in 21 separate cases, for their roles in global bank fraud schemes that allegedly used hundreds of false-name bank accounts to …

Investments in cloud computing solutions and services are poised to increase in the next 12 months as opportunities for IT companies and their customers come into clearer …

iLIVEx is a fast, secure and fault-tolerant X11 client that turns the Apple iPad into an X terminal for Linux and Unix. It allows iPad users to connect to Unix and Linux …

If we look back over recent years, organizations quickly established databases for storing information and, with them, ways to mine these records to squeeze as much …

Trojans are still in the spotlight, comprising 55 percent of all new threats according to PandaLabs. Infection via email, traditionally the most popular vector for spreading …

SANS London 2010 is Europe’s largest training event for information and security professionals which is celebrating its 5th anniversary this year with one of the most …

Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. “EBK”, and Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a. “Slacker”, were sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to disrupt …