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The absence of uniform global legislation, regulations or standards for data privacy is posing a major data privacy puzzle for organizations faced with protecting the …

Google released Skipfish, a free fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, reviews and videos: The rise of amateur-run botnets It used to be that cyber criminals …

With the growth of social networking, online media consumption and cloud computing, every day millions of people log in to a variety of different sites using a username and …

A highly productive phishing scam, with more than 180 messages sent in three minutes, hits a big chunk of the online segment of Barclays members Various people are wondering …

DoubleVaccine is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …

At the heart of many of the malicious ploys that we see online is one underlying concept: social engineering. Deceptive social engineering tactics are interwoven throughout …

Despite 78% agreeing that it is wrong, 1 in 4 of UK’s children have tried their hand at hacking into others’ Facebook accounts mostly by surreptitiously using the …

Antivirus 7 is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files to look for below. Known system changes: Files c:\Desktop\Antivirus7.lnk …

Transparent access to people and information is Enterprise 2.0’s great promise. It’s tempered, however, by a privacy risk that is especially sensitive in the …

Unitrends unveiled its Vault2Cloud disaster recovery service, monitored and managed through a simple, easy-to-use Web 2.0-based user interface. Vault2Cloud solves many of the …

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