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Demand for security and Big Data experts grows

A new survey by TEKsystems compares current market conditions to the state of spending, skills needs, and impact areas. The survey represents the views of 244 IT leaders …

Email management lacks innovation, businesses turn to cloud

SolarWinds released survey results highlighting the growing challenge organizations face managing email in an increasingly complex environment where BYOx, mobility and other …

How does the Heartbleed bug affect me?

By now, you have surely heard about the “Heartbleed” bug discovered in Open SSL, and you’re wondering how its existence affects you. The situation is, …

Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability: A technical remediation

OpenSSL released an bug advisory about a 64kb memory leak patch in their library. The bug has been assigned CVE-2014-0160 TLS heartbeat read overrun. According to OpenSSL, the …

WordPress releases important security update

WordPress 3.8.2 is now available. This is an important security release for all previous versions and you should update immediately. This releases fixes a weakness that could …

Highest EU court rejects EU-wide Data Retention Directive

It’s a good thing that the European Union is working on a new Data Retention Directive, as the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled on Tuesday that the one issued …

Universities are a rich target for hackers

In 2013, HALOCK Security Labs noted information security vulnerabilities at colleges and universities along with numerous challenges that plague these institutions across the …

Facebook begins testing new, simplified privacy settings

If you are a regular Facebook user but you haven’t reviewed your privacy settings in a while, you may have already seen Facebook’s new “privacy …

A closer look at Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday

April’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday is on par with the prior releases this year. There are only four bulletins being released, two rated “Critical” and two rated …

Best practices for secure use of Windows XP

Microsoft’s support for Windows XP ended yesterday, April 8, 2014. However, Gartner estimates that one-third of enterprises currently have more than 10 percent of their …

56% of employees still receive no security awareness training

A new research survey by EMA takes you inside today’s organizations to reveal how employee decisions related to information security can significantly increase …

Attitudes about best practices for physical access control

An HID Global survey of 600 respondents revealed enterprise end users’ perceptions about change and the importance of industry best practices, and how well today’s …

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