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nCircle PureCloud: Network security scanning service

nCircle announced PureCloud, a network security scanning service which combines security technology used by thousands of the world’s largest enterprises and government …

Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

With Lion, Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of Mac OS X yet – and once again, David Pogue brings his humor and expertise to the #1 bestselling Mac book. …

Hearing on draconian new U.S. piracy legislation is under way

Today’s the day of the long awaited House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation claims, …

Facebook trims response to data requests

After the possibility to request data from Facebook under European data privacy laws became common knowledge, Europeans began inundating the social networks with requests. …

Top requirements for operating data in the cloud

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Cloud Data Governance (CDG) working group today introduced the results of its Cloud Consumer Advocacy Questionnaire and Information Survey. …

Effectiveness of web application firewalls

The best defense against web application vulnerabilities and threats is to professionally train Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and to incorporate Dynamic Application …

Hacker breached, changed grades in university academic record system

Santa Clara University, a private university run by the Jesuits and located in the Silicon Valley, has issued a statement confirming that it has called the FBI to investigate …

Windows 8 to do away with constant restarts after updating

I don’t know a single Windows user who isn’t annoyed at the number of times the operating system requires a restart, and especially annoyed when the request …

CSA offers a practical road map for secure cloud adoption

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today unveiled the third version of its Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing. This effort provides a practical, …

Open source biometrics technology for mobile devices, PCs and servers

DigitalPersona has open sourced its new MINEX-certified FingerJetFX fingerprint feature extraction technology. FingerJetFX, Open Source Edition (OSE), is free, portable …

Cloud security best practices and tips

With the adoption of cloud computing continuing to accelerate, the need to adopt and maintain effective security and compliance practices is more important that ever. To help …

Email archive productivity headache

U.S. businesses are failing to maximize the efficiency with which they extract useful business intelligence from archived email, according to GFI Software. While a majority of …

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