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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,…
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Security Risks Rise due to Mismanaged User Access: HP
Increased threats to sensitive and confidential workplace data are being created by a lack of control and oversight of privileged users, including database administrators, network engineers and IT security practitioners, according to a new report, entitled “The Insecurity of Privileged Users.” The study, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, revealed that 52…
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Smartphone, Tablet Security: 10 Lessons to Learn
It wasn’t long ago that Symbian was the only mobile software dealing with an inordinate number of security problems, due to its popularity. But now that Android and iOS have started to dominate the marketplace, the number of mobile threats impacting consumers and enterprise users around the globe has skyrocketed. What’s worse, the threats mobile…
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StealthBits Introduces Free Data Loss Prevention Tool
Security and IT management solutions specialist StealthBits announced the release of DLP Lite for File Systems, a free, regex data loss prevention (DLP) tool designed to help businesses identify high-risk, unsecured content on their networks to mitigate the risk of data leakage and theft. The freeware solution is a file-level content scanning tool that pinpoints…
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Poor Firewall Management Leaves Networks Vulnerable to Attack
Poor Firewall Management Leaves Networks Vulnerable to Attack Only 7% of network security pros take the time to automate their firewall audit processes. No Title Approximately 40% of security professionals spend a month or more on firewall audits annually. No Title 85% of security professionals say that at least half of their firewall rule changes…
