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Security Holes Abound in VMs Deployed by Amazon Web Services Customers
German researchers uncovered multiple security problems within Amazon’s cloud-computing services caused by customers ignoring or forgetting security tips. Researchers looked at some 1,100 Amazon Machine Images and found a majority of them contained security keys used to authenticate with other services and servers, Thomas Schneider, a post-doctoral researcher in the System Security Lab of Technische…
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Disk Encryption a Priority for Businesses
As data protection mandates become stricter and high-profile instances of data loss proliferate in the media, a survey of more than 360 attendees at Infosecurity Europe 2011 found that two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) hold disk encryption to be an IT security priority. The survey also found that more than two in five respondents (42…
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Dropbox Password Protection Function Disabled By Bug
Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off passwords for four hours, potentially exposing data belonging to its 25 million customers to unauthorized users. The breach occurred when the company applied a code change at 4:54 p.m. EST on June 19 that caused problems with the authentication mechanism, Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox CTO and founder, wrote in…
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Despite Public Data Breaches, Password Security Still Weak
Despite repeated reminders to select strong passwords and not to reuse them across Websites and services, online users continue to be frighteningly lax in their password security, according to a recent analysis of leaked passwords. Security experts recommend taking a multilayered approach to security. Instead of relying on a single point of failure, organizations should…
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WatchGuard Strengthens Email Security Appliances
WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of business security solutions, released a software update to its extensible content security family of Web and messaging security appliances. This software release allows businesses to employ data loss prevention features, content and policy controls for accelerating Web traffic and spam and phishing prevention technologies. For more granular data loss prevention…
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Citigroup Reveals More Than 350,000 Cards Affected After Data Breach
Citigroup officials are saying now that 360,083 credit card accounts were accessed in the data breach this month, far more than the 210,000 they originally estimated. Citigroup released the revised tally in a letter to customers June 15. The release came after Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said the company was not giving out enough…