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The constantly evolving cyber threat landscape is resulting in new challenges and approaches for today’s security analyst teams. In the past, companies looked at the …

New research, by SecureData and Vanson Bourne, investigated the impact government security initiatives had on end-user organizations in 2014, with nearly half (47%) reporting …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: VPN services blocked by China’s Great Firewall A number of popular …

Akamai released a new security report that provides analysis and insight into the global attack threat landscape including DDoS attacks. Akamai observed a 52 percent increase …

We learned throughout our lives that if we experience the same problem over and over again in a certain situation, we should probably change something in our own behavior / …

A new study by the National Cyber Security Alliance shows that Americans care deeply about their privacy. While a great knowledge gap exists about how information is collected …

What worries chief information officers (CIOs) and IT professionals the most? According to a recent survey by Sungard AS, downtime and talent acquisition weigh heaviest on …

As connected devices infiltrate the workplace—some with IT’s knowledge and some without—both value and risk can increase significantly. ISACA has released new guidance …

A DDoS attack on a company’s online resources might cause considerable losses – with average figures ranging from $52,000 to $444,000 depending on the size of the …

A new report from OPSWAT determined the market share for the top five antivirus vendors with RTP enabled. It includes: Avast – 21.4% Microsoft – 19.4% AVG – …

When U.S. President Barack Obama recently called upon education service providers to safeguard student privacy by following a set of commitments regarding the collection, …

The Qualys security research team has found a critical vulnerability in the Linux GNU C Library (glibc), that allows attackers to remotely take control of an entire system …