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Businesses Face Rising Challenges to Keep Data Secure: Report
A report from Check Point Software and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, revealed that 77 percent of organizations surveyed have experienced data loss in the last year. Key findings from the report, Understanding Security Complexity in 21st Century IT Environments, showed respondents cited customer information (52 percent) as the most…
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Cloud, Virtualized Environments Targeted by Cyber-Attackers
NEW YORK — Cyber-criminals are simultaneously taking advantage of the cloud’s benefits to launch attacks as well as targeting organizations’ cloud services, security experts said. As organizations increasingly virtualize their data centers and move their applications to the cloud, attackers are beginning to think, "Let’s attack here," Allen Vance, director of product management of the…
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RSA to Reissue SecurID Tokens
It took nearly three months and a major security incident at one of the nation’s most critical defense contractors to spur it on, but on Monday RSA, The Security Division of EMC, finally let the cat out of the bag about the severity of a March security breach against its SecurID authentication token infrastructure. The…
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Security Threat Intensifies: Lockheed, Google, DoD
Last week the threat of cyberwarfare and state-sponsored hacking activities flared up to show itself as more than just an imaginary boogeyman. The fleeting specter gained some tangibility with a number of incidents coming to light, including the details of a sophisticated attack against defense contractor Lockheed Martin, some of its subcontractors and potentially other…
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How To Reduce Mobile Risks 10 Ways
How To Reduce Mobile Risks 10 Ways 1. Install on-device anti-malware to protect against malicious applications, spyware, infected SD cards and malware-based attacks to the device. No Title 2. Use on-device firewall to protect device interfaces. No Title 3. Utilize SSL VPN clients to protect data in transit and to ensure secure and appropriate network…
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Sensitive, Personal Data Leaked from Majority of Web Sites
A team of university researchers examined more than 100 "popular" Websites and found three-quarters of the sites leaked private information or users’ identifying data to third-party tracking sites. The survey results were released shortly after Facebook came under fire for inadvertently passing user data to other parties. More than half (56 percent) of sites "directly…
