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Complacent social networkers should be taking simple steps to protect their own privacy, asserts independent security testing consultancy, SecureTest. Many users rely upon …

Bloxx announced the results from its first annual anonymous proxies security survey, revealing that 90% of respondents deem this kind of site to be a problem and 52% of these …

Protegrity’s Data Protection System, part of the Defiance Security Suite, has been extended to include data hashing and VSAM file encryption on z/OS. Hashing, an …

Orchestria has identified a significant trend missed by security providers that publicized 2008 industry predictions at the beginning of the year. Corporate security officers …

VoIPshield Laboratories has discovered over 100 security vulnerabilities in Voice over IP systems marketed by Avaya, Cisco and Nortel. A vulnerability is a design or …

At Black Hat in Amsterdam we caught up with Michael Thumann, CSO of ERNW. In this video he discusses Second Life hacking. Beyond being an online game Second Life is a growing …

Identity Force issued a Tax Season Fraud Alert warning consumers about tax-related scams that can lead to identity theft. With the April 15th income tax filing deadline only …

Sony is entering the megapixel marketplace with several new additions to its lineup of IP-based security network cameras. Sony’s first megapixel cameras include the …

March 2008 proved to be somewhat atypical in terms of malicious code in mail traffic. Firstly, there were no new malicious programs in the Top Twenty. Secondly, the new …

Newly‐formed Internet safety software company CyberPatrol, LLC today announced it has acquired the CyberPatrol parental control software product, from security vendor …

Geographical Trends: In March, spam levels in Switzerland rose by 6.15 percent since February, surpassing levels in Hong Kong where they fell by 0.76 percent during the same …

MessageLabs announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for March 2008. Analysis highlights that the prolific Storm botnet is responsible for 20 percent of …