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Most enterprises encounter problems with open source software

Univa’s 2013 Free and Open Source Software report finds that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is prominent within businesses today with 76% using it internally. …

First anti-malware product for UEFI

Kaspersky Lab released Kaspersky Anti-Virus for UEFI (KUEFI) – an anti-malware solution which can protect the user’s PC before the operating system even starts …

Most security pros believe they will suffer a data breach

More than 70% of IT security professionals would not be willing to bet $100 of their own money that their organization will not suffer a data breach in the next six months, …

2.4M cards compromised in US supermarket chain breach

Popular US supermarket chain Schnucks has announced on Monday that some 2.4 million credit and debit cards used at 79 of its 100 stores may have been compromised during a four …

Pass-thoughts as a solution to the password problem

A group of researchers from University of California, Berkeley, claims to have achieved 99 percent accuracy when using brainwave signals instead of passwords for user …

Big Data: Huge risk or huge opportunity?

The amount of data government agencies must capture, store, and analyze is growing exponentially. Whether this data boom provides agencies with new opportunities to gain …

Disruptive tech trends that will change everything

At the opening keynote for the 43rd annual ISACA North America Computer Audit, Control and Security (CACS) Conference, New York Times personal-technology columnist David Pogue …

Study of the European data center market

Digital Realty Trust has released key findings from its annual study of the European data center market. The survey of senior leadership at large corporations in Europe …

Radware unveils SDN strategy

Radware introduced DefenseFlow, the first in the company’s suite of Software Defined Networking (SDN) applications providing organizations with network wide attack …

WordPress sites targeted by mass brute-force attack

US-CERT has issued an alert regarding the ongoing massive brute-force attacks against WordPress sites, warning users and administrators to keep their installation always …

The Social-Engineer Toolkit 5.0 released

TrustedSec released the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) 5.0 codename: The Wild West. This version is a culmination of six months of development, bug squashing, and user …

Set your Google account to be deleted after you die

Google has rolled out an interesting feature: the Inactive Account Manager. Aimed at providing some peace of mind for privacy minded users that worry what will happen with …

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