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86 per cent of all emails are spam
The weekly Spam Report shows 86 per cent of all emails are spam, according to research carried out by Irish independent consulting and technical services company IT Force. …
E-mail interception a real risk for UK law firms
Interception of email poses a real threat to UK law firms, placing the integrity of their communications at risk, according to an industry survey. The survey, commissioned by …
Removing credit card data seen as key to real security
The consensus of speakers at the just-concluded Real Security Summit is that the future of credit card payments depends on systems that remove useable card data stored …
CryptoMemory prevents cloning and counterfeiting
CryptoMemory devices provide low-cost, secure means of preventing product counterfeiting and/or piracy of Intellectual Property (IP) and OEM parts. CryptoMemory uses a 64-bit …
A closer look at AxCrypt 1.6.3
AxCrypt is one of the best open source file encryption software for Windows. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual …
Who poses the biggest network threat?
Sophos revealed new research into the types of users businesses fear most likely to expose their networks to IT threats. The research shows that 31 percent of companies …
Barracuda Networks and open source intellectual property protection
Barracuda Networks signed a license agreement with the Open Invention Network (OIN) and joined the growing list of companies who are supporting OIN to ensure Linux-based and …
Attacking the Build through Cross-Build Injection
A poorly designed software build process can allow an attacker to insert malicious code into the final product or to take control of a build machine. This paper surveys …
CompTIA survey reveals one-fifth of tech budgets now allocated for security
Spending on security technology, training, assessments, and certification now accounts for one-fifth of total technology budgets, according to research from the Computing …
Microsoft releases four critical security bulletins
Another Patch Tuesday and Microsoft comes out with a variety of patches, and this series is quite serious. The critical vulnerabilities are in: Windows, Outlook Express, …
Two FREE CSI 2007 three-day conference passes for HNS readers
We have a couple of complimentary access passes to the upcoming CSI 2007. The conference will be held November 5-7 in suburban Washington, DC. These full three-day conference …
Forensics edition of Password Recovery Bundle
Russian password experts Elcomsoft recently released Password Recovery Bundle – Forensics Edition. This software suite includes the high-end versions of all of …