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Redmond stated: "We recently became aware of a complex piece of targeted malware known as “Flame” and immediately began examining the issue. As many reports assert, Flame has been used in ...
OpenDLP is a free and open source, agent- and agentless-based, centrally-managed, massively distributable data loss prevention tool released under the GPL. Given appropriate Windows, ...
"People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old. That's according to the largest ever study of password security, which also ...
TrendLabs discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives attached to email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific ...
Un-friggin-believable but true. Don't be one of them! Gregg Keizer at ComputerWorld was the first with this story. "Nearly a fifth of Windows PCs in the U.S. lack any active security ...
Hackers will find any mail server that is not protected and/or configured correctly and use it to send out as much spam as possible. This gets the unsuspecting organization blacklisted ...
'Flame', the most sophisticated piece of malware to date, was discovered by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Kaspersky Lab. This code is more complex and has more ...
Antone Gonsalves at NetworkWorld got this story first. Here is how the scam works, so do not fall for it. You can recognize it by the grammar and spelling mistakes. "The cyber-criminals ...
I was interviewed by Jeremy Quittner yesterday. Here is how he started his article in American Banker today: "It took Stu Sjouwerman, the founder and chief executive of security firm ...
Monday morning, I found a tweet by @INFOSECSchool with the above title. I admit, it's a catchy phrase and sure enough, IF you allow easy passwords, it's an invitation to get hacked. This ...
On Monday, the U.S. Senate confirmed a branch of its website was breached by a hacker group. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Reid and House Speaker Boehner appear disheartened in photo. Its ...
Unknown attackers have cyber heisted the International Monetary Fund, but there's been no indication as to what—if anything—the cyber criminals managed to get their hands on. According to ...
[caption id="attachment_994" align="alignleft" width="262" caption="Cyber Judge"][/caption] Cyber security experts are expressing serious concern over a decision on a cyberheist lawsuit ...
[caption id="attachment_986" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="North America Cyber Crime"][/caption] The U.S. government just very recently broadened its definition of what ...
[caption id="attachment_959" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Network Cybercrime"][/caption] Despite the valiant efforts of network security companies and the vigilance of IT ...
[caption id="attachment_903" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="U.S. Government"][/caption] If you were under the impression that all is well with your network security and that ...
It was great to read that the "Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011" was recently introduced in the US Senate. The purpose of the bill is to raise the public's security awareness, ...
[caption id="attachment_754" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Cyberheist"] [/caption] Cyberheist the book has arrived! The Kindle edition is currently selling on Amazon for ...
Internet.com is a respected information technology publication that's been active on the Web since the late 1990s. Their spin-off Website SmallBusinessComputing.com is a great source for ...
Ventura County, California, is a small small county (population: 802,983 according to 2009 numbers from the US Census Bureau) north of the greater Los Angeles area. According to a March ...
