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CompTIA, viaForensics Plan Secure Mobile App Developer Credential
A new credential intended for mobile applications developers is being created by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry, and viaForensics, a digital forensics and security firm, the two organizations announced. The secure mobile application developer credential and corresponding testing services – scheduled for availability in the first half of 2012 – are intended…
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PCI Security Adoption Lags as IT Budgets Shift: Gartner
Payment Card Industry data security standards may be a hot topic, but a recent survey by IT research firm Gartner found that 18 percent of respondents admitted to not being PCI-compliant, even though the survey data suggested that they should be. The survey of 383 IT managers found trends in buying behaviors and permitted predictions…
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IP Thieves An Insider Job
IP Thieves An Insider Job The average IP thief is a male employee around 37 years old who serves in a technical position, such as an engineer, scientist, technical manager or programmer. No Title Most IP thieves signed an IP agreement. No Title Close to 65 percent of IP thieves were already out the door,…
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Spam Slows in 2011 as Criminals Choose Targeted Attacks
Criminals shifted away from building up botnet armies in favor of launching targeted attacks on specific corporate networks in 2011, according to security researchers. The overall number of networks and computers hijacked by criminals globally and commandeered into a botnet army has declined each year since 2009, Cisco said in its 2011 state of security…
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FFIEC
FFIEC Online banking institutions will be held accountable to more rigorous security demands from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) in January. That’s when examiners begin assessing financial institutions according to risk assessment best practices including better fraud protection and use of layered security technology to augment the multi-factor authentication laid out by the…
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Adobe Releases Patch for ColdFusion, No Sign of Reader Fix
Adobe released a patch addressing vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion Web application development platform. However, it still has not released a fix for the critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that the company promised last week. The vulnerability exists in ColdFusion versions 9.01, 9.0, 8.0.1 and 8.0 running on Windows, Mac OS X and Unix,…
