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Infosecurity (USA) News - 20 Sep 2011
Editor's Choice
Anti-virus: Is There Life in the Old Dog? Once upon a time, anti-virus technology was a well-coveted standalone product. These days, it is often considered a commodity that can be adequately built into a UTM offering. Cath Everett investigates whether or not a market for standalone anti-virus technology still exists More The Truth About DLP Data loss prevention: the term that fills marketing managers with joy, and infosec managers with dread. Preventing a data leak may be the top priority for the IT security team, but is DLP technology mature, and cost effective enough, to be the answer? Stephen Pritchard reports More
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 | Industry Report: Endpoint Protection Performance Benchmarks
Check out how Symantec Endpoint Protection performs against competing solutions. PassMark Software recently compared leading security vendors on thirteen performance metrics. Confidently protect your business with industry-leading endpoint security, messaging and web security, and data protection solutions.
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| | Data Loss Comment: We All Need to Keep Closer Tabs on Financial Data
Mohan Koo, managing director of Dtex Systems, explains how recent data breaches show that organizations are focusing on external security while neglecting insider threats... More Insiders increasingly linked to data breaches in the financial sector
Employees are increasingly responsible for data breaches at financial institutions, according to the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT).... More FBI probes over 400 cases of corporate bank account cyberjacking
The FBI is currently investigating over 400 reported cases of corporate banking account takeovers in which cybercriminals have initiated unauthorized automated clearing house (ACH) and wire transfers from US-based organizations, an FBI official told a House panel this week. ... More Hacker accesses 40,000 credit and debit cards processed by arcade vendor
Vacationland Vendors, a Wisconsin-based supplier of arcade equipment and vending machines, said credit and debits cards used in its card processing system over a two and a half year period may have been exposed. ... More Data breach exposes personal data on 20,000 Stanford Hospital patients
A full 20,000 patients who visited the Stanford Hospital and Clinics’ emergency room had their personal information posted publicly online for a year, the hospital admitted last week.... More |
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| | | |  | The Sad State of Password Security
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| | | | | | | | | |  | Secure iPhone Access to Corporate Web Applications
Because personal mobile devices are so prevalent, many organizations are moving from corporate ownership of devices to allowing employees to use their own devices for business purposes. Some companies view this as a cost-saving measure, but identifying these personal devices as legitimate endpoints is still a challenge, especially when it comes to security and compliance.
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| | | | | | |  | The Infosecurity US 2011 Fall Virtual Conference
Infosecurity magazine is pleased to present the Infosecurity US 2011 Fall Virtual Conference, a day full of topical keynote sessions direct to your computer. Keynote discussions will include: ‘Tablet security within the enterprise', ‘Apple security, or insecurity?', ‘Battle of the operating systems', ‘APT: Real threat or just hype?' and much more. Enjoy a day of virtual networking with your peers, visit our virtual exhibition, and most importantly, enjoy all of the benefits of attending a conference from the comfort of your own desk.
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| | Internet and Network SecurityGFI researcher spots Bing and Yahoo adverts serving up malware
Despite security safeguards being installed by advertising aggregation firms over the last 12 months, it looks as though the old problem of third-party adverts serving up malware infections is back again, as a GFI Software security researcher claims that the Microsoft Bing and Yahoo search engines are now directing users to malicious content.... More Firms concerned that high-speed networks will overwhelm security products
A full 84% Fortune 500 organizations surveyed have concerns about their incumbent network security vendors’ abilities to manage 10 gigabit per second (Gb/s) throughput environments, according to a survey commissioned by network monitoring firm Endace.... More IT security should be about good management, not tech performance, says IDC
IT security in an increasingly complex threat environment needs to be more about management than technology performance, according to Eric Domage, program manager for IDC in Europe.... More Small is beautiful when it comes to information security
Chief information officers naturally turn to large vendors for their information security needs in spite of the fact that smaller firms often are better at responding to the latest cyber threats, observed Ross Parsell, key account director for government and commercial with Thales e-Security. ... More 'Patch and pray' no longer the way, says INSA
The “patch and pray” system of cybersecurity is no longer sustainable in the current threat environment, judges a report prepared by the non-profit Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).... More GlobalSign web certificate authority back online after hacker breach
Belgian web certificate authority (CA) GlobalSign is back online after investigating claims by the hacker who breached the Dutch DigiNotar CA that its systems had also been breached.... More Is Linux loose with security?
The Linux Foundation said that it discovered a security breach of its infrastructure, including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains on Sept. 8.... More |
| | | | | | Malware and Hardware SecurityHackers flip over Unicode trick
Hackers are flipping filenames to create apparently 'safe' file extensions that in fact contain malware, according to Czech security firm Avast Software.... More More botnets using the same compromised devices, Damballa finds
The number of botnets running on compromised devices increased in the first half of 2011, despite the recent takedown of a number of high-profile botnets, according to Damballa’s first half 2011 Advanced Threat Report.... More Reverse engineering specialist dissects the Morto worm
Tomer Bitton, a reverse engineering specialist with Imperva, has successfully dissected the operation of the Morto worm, a malware executable that is notable for being the only worm seen to date that exploits Microsoft's remote desktop protocol (RDP).... More |
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