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EU to vote on stiffer penalties for hackers

Member states of the European Union might soon be creating new laws that will raise minimum prison sentences for convicted cyber attackers and botnet herders. Last week, the …

New expert-level cyber forensics certification

(ISC)2 has developed a new certification, the Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFPSM), as the first global standard for assessing experienced digital forensics …

Microsoft Citadel takedown ultimately counterproductive

Last week’s disruption of nearly 1500 Citadel botnets believed to be responsible for over half a billion US dollars in financial fraud and affecting more than five …

Dell adds identity to the classification of unstructured data

Dell Software released Dell Quest One Identity Manager – Data Governance Edition Classification Module, the latest solution that adds identity to the classification of …

Week in review: NSA spying scandal, EU net neutrality, and vulnerable smart TVs

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews, articles and interviews: Google won’t allow facial recognition on Glass Whether …

Proposed bill will deny foreign hackers entry into the U.S.

A day before U.S. President’s scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a new act that aims to punish criminals engaging in cyber spying and theft on behalf …

New Android Trojan is complex as Windows malware

Mobile (and especially Android) malware is on the rise and according to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, its complexity is also increasing. Case in point: …

Google ups (some) bug bounties

Google has once again decided to raise the sums that researchers can earn by offering information about bugs in the company’s web services and properties (YouTube, …

Changes to the standard for PIN Transaction Security

Today the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published version 4.0 of the PIN Transaction Security (PTS) Point of Interaction (POI) requirements. These requirements, …

Pirate Bay founder suspected of hacking police databases

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who has been extradited from Cambodia to Sweden to answer for allegedly hacking of Swedish IT company Logica and the Nordea bank …

NSA has direct access to Google, Facebook, Apple servers

After yesterday’s news that Verizon is compelled to share all phone call metadata with the NSA on a daily basis comes the incendiary revelation that the spy agency has …

What are users doing after log-in?

Businesses today use up to 50 on-premises applications and 25 cloud-based applications on average, so identity and access management (IAM) technologies to secure data and …

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