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 …
Insight, innovation and inspiration at Infosecurity Europe 2014
The information security community is about to gather at Infosecurity Europe, taking place the 29th April – 01 May 2014 in London. Infosecurity Europe 2014 is paving the …
Microsoft releases final security updates for Windows XP
So this is it, the last hurrah for the once beloved XP, the last kick at the can for patching up the old boat. Sure, by today’s standards it’s a leaky, …
Cain & Abel
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …
Popular but fake security app removed from Google Play
In little over a week, a developer selling a security app named Virus Shield on Google Play has managed to earn over $40,000, and the software topped the list of most …
OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug undermines widely used encryption scheme
OpenSSL, an open-source cryptographic library that is the default encryption engine for popular Web server software and is used in many popular operating system and apps, …
Photos: Infosec World 2014
The Infosec World Conference and Expo is currently taking place in Orlando, Florida. Help Net Security is attending so here’s a few photos from the show.
Businesses create IT security blind spots
New research shows that 54 percent of companies in the UK are using incorrect metrics when trying to determine their IT security status, providing a false picture of the …
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