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No big bang in PCI 2.0
As expected, PCI 2.0 rolls up a number of minor changes, but there really is no Big Bang in this document. A number of people have been disappointed by this since for the past …
Free Mac anti-virus for home users
Sophos announced the availability of a free Mac anti-virus product for home users. Based on Sophos’s security software, which protects over 100 million business users …
Bluelog: Bluetooth site survey tool
Bluelog is a Linux Bluetooth scanner written to do a single task, log devices that are in discoverable mode. It is intended to be used as a site survey tool, determining how …
SOURCE Boston and Seattle CFP is now open
SOURCE Conference brings security experts and business professionals together in an intimate and personal environment to discuss the security industry’s most important …
Webroot acquires Prevx
Webroot has acquired Prevx and will integrate Prevx’s technology into its cloud security services. “Webroot and Prevx share a common vision for revolutionizing …
Fixing weak passwords
Passwords have been present in information technology since the earliest days, but it’s only in the last five years that computers have become powerful enough to crack …
Secure USB drive with Windows Embedded Standard 7
Spyrus released a secure USB flash drive with Windows Embedded Standard 7 pre-installed. Unlike other USB flash drives that run the Windows operating system, the Secure Pocket …
RAID tower with hardware encryption
Addonics announced a family of Cipher Raid Towers with AES 256-bit full disk hardware encryption, a solution for applications that require reliable storage with redundancy and …
Week in review: Mac OS X Trojan, Bredolab shutdown and Firefox add-on for hijacking online accounts
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial “When it …
Privacy and cleaning tool CCleaner 3.0 released
CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet …
New PCI standards completed, tokenization still in question
The PCI Security Standards Council released version 2.0 of the PCI DSS and PA-DSS, designed to provide greater clarity and flexibility to facilitate improved understanding of …
One-time picture passcodes strengthen logins
Confident ImageShield is a cloud-based, multifactor authentication service that creates one-time passcodes by prompting users to correctly identify pictures from a dynamic …
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