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Data breaches cost hospitals billions

Data breaches of patient information cost healthcare organizations nearly $6 billion annually, and that many breaches go undetected, according to a study by the Ponemon …

Employees will take bigger risks during this holiday season

Employees in the US plan to spend less time shopping online from a work-supplied computer this holiday season than they did a year ago, but more of them are engaging in risky …

Classification of web applications and content by URL category

Blue Coat Systems announced that their PacketShaper appliances can now deliver instant awareness of Web applications and content. The appliances provide intelligent control …

Royal Navy site hack forces MoD to suspend website

A Romanian hacker known as ‘TinKode’ has claimed to have broken into the main British Royal Navy website, www.royalnavy.mod.uk, and posted sensitive information …

Mismanaged data encryption causes financial loss

Venafi invited the 150-plus survey participants from the world’s largest companies to give their views on the problem of downtime caused by increasing encryption …

Extract and analyze digital evidence from Mac OS X systems

ATC-NY released Mac Marshal 2.0 which automates the forensics process for a cyber investigator. It scans a Macintosh disk, automatically detects and displays Macintosh and …

Firesheep countermeasure tool BlackSheep

Firesheep is the Firefox extension that makes it easier to steal logins and take over social media and email accounts after users log in from a WiFi hotspot or even their own …

Two FBI fugitives wanted on federal cyber crime charges captured

On November 3, 2010, Dorin Codreanu and Lilian Adam were arrested in Portage, Wisconsin by FBI agents. Codreanu and Adam have been fugitives since September 30 when FBI agents …

Portable multi-boot security suite Katana 2.0 released

Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together all of the best security distributions to run from one USB drive. Katana includes distributions which …

Who is responsible for database security?

A culture of complacency hampers information security efforts, and as a result of lax practices and oversight, is leaving sensitive corporate data vulnerable to tampering and …

WinSCP 4.3 beta released

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a …

Week in review: DDoS Trojan, PCI 2.0 and Android kernel security flaws

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews, articles and reviews: Facebook discovers and “punishes” UID-selling …

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