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Detailed report on campus security issues (3 year trend data)
CDW Government released the results of its third annual Higher Education IT Security Report Card, a national survey that asks higher education IT directors and managers to …
Top popular applications with critical security vulnerabilities
Bit9 released its annual list of the top popular applications with known vulnerabilities. Often running outside of IT’s knowledge or control, these popular applications …
Spam used to influence U.S. Presidential Election
A large wave of unsolicited e-mails exhorting the qualities of Ron Paul as a candidate for the U.S. presidency is being captured by BitDefender spam filters. The spam e-mails …
New product: HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager
HP just introduced a centralized, hardened security appliance to help data center managers improve privacy compliance and reduce the risk of costly data-loss due to theft. The …
Large mailing of PDF files exploits recent vulnerability
F-Secure has been monitoring a large mailing of malicious PDF files. These PDF files exploit a recent vulnerability. When such PDF files are viewed on vulnerable machines, …
Block Data Leakage at the Source
Computer networks today have become increasingly open, with greater reliance on IP. More and more staff are accessing a greater number of applications and databases, while …
Windows Mobile 6 storage card encryption solution
Sprite Mobile announced the launch of Sprite Backup 6.1, the newest edition of the award winning Microsoft Windows Mobile backup and recovery software. Sprite Backup 6.1 adds …
France, Spain and the USA have the highest rates of infected computers
France has been the country with the highest percentage of infected PCs this week, according to data from the Infected or Not website. Over 38% of protected computers (with an …
Data leak prevention expert to be acquired
Trend Micro announced today a definitive agreement to acquire Provilla, Inc., a leading provider of fingerprint-based intelligent endpoint solutions for data leak prevention …
Zombie Detection System with a free zombie test
PineApp has released a free zombie test that can instantly discover whether an organization’s computer network might be an unwitting spamming machine — a …
Malicious spam on the rise, PDF spam RIP
During August 2007 Sophos identified a series of large-scale malware attacks made via spam email, with weblinks inserted into spam messages that directed recipients to …
Corporate malware on the rise
The malware analysis and detection laboratory, PandaLabs, alerts that almost 72% percent of companies with more than 100 computers have active malware on their …