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MalumPoS can be customized to target different systems

“A new Point-of-Sale RAM scraper is being offered for sale, and is currently designed to collect data from a very specific type of PoS systems: those running on Oracle …

Personal info of 4 million US government workers compromised in OPM breach

Approximately 4 million US federal employees, both current and former, will start receiving a breach notification alerting them that their personal information has potentially …

Stagnant budgets and rising insider security threats

A Vectra Networks survey of more than 500 cybersecurity professionals in the Information Security Community on LinkedIn reveals that insider threats are rising, but IT …

Online summer travel scams to watch out for

Iovation released a list of common online summer travel scams to watch out for. The company also announced that it has seen a hundred percent increase in online travel …

70% of breaches are detected by a third-party

46 percent of organizations that have suffered a data breach took more than four months to detect a problem, and more than three months to mitigate the risk. Worryingly, the …

CSA releases tool for personal data legal protection

At Infosecurity Europe 2015, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group released the Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) v2, a tool that provides …

Access control and password management solution for privileged endpoints

Bomgar and Thycotic have partnered to provide enterprises with better control and visibility of access to critical endpoints and privileged accounts.Bomgar Privileged Access …

Discovering connections between attackers

In the last few years, Pedram Hayati, founder of Australian IT company Security Dimension, has been developing a custom honeypot intelligence system called Smart Honeypot. …

Ipswitch offers secure managed file transfer analytics and reporting

At Infosecurity Europe 2015 Ipswitch File Transfer announced the release of Ipswitch Analytics, a new reporting and monitoring solution for MOVEit Secure Managed File …

Microsoft will add SSH support to PowerShell

Third time’s the charm for Microsoft’s PowerShell team, as they will – after two previous attempts unsuccessful due to leadership and culture – finally …

Risk managers most worried about loss of information confidentiality

Almost 70 percent of businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the last year, according to a study of business risk managers released today by The Hartford Steam …

Cloud-based solutions that protect against zero day attacks

BAE Systems Applied Intelligence announced at Infosecurity Europe 2015 that it is bringing cloud-based cyber security to commercial organisations in Europe for the first time. …

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