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  • Flame FAQ: 11 Facts About Complex Malware

    Flame FAQ: 11 Facts About Complex MalwareSize of Flame dwarfs existing spyware, keyloggers, and other malware. Drill down for a closer look at the crucial technology and military issues.By Mathew J. Schwartz, InformationWeekThe Flame--a.k.a. Flamer, Skywi...
  • White House launches coordinated effort to battle botnets

    White House launches coordinated effort to battle botnetsSeveral groups announce plans to work together on new efforts to educate users, share information.By Grant Gross, IDG News ServiceThe U.S. government has launched a coordinated effort with several t...
  • Best Practices of Securing Data in Storage and Archive

    New Webinar - Best Practices of Securing Data in Storage and ArchiveBest Practices of Securing Data in Storage and ArchiveLIVE Webinar on Wednesday, 13 June @ 11.00am EST NAS is invaluable to enterprises because of their accessibility, centralization o...
  • Centrify Bolsters Mobile Security Policy via Active Directory

    Centrify Bolsters Mobile Security Policy via Active DirectoryCloud service lets customers push group policies set in Microsoft's Active Directory to employees' mobile devicesBy Antone GonsalvesCSO — Centrify, which sells software for managing Apple Macs...
  • Gartner sees huge rise in corporate social media monitoring

    Gartner sees huge rise in corporate social media monitoringSixty percent of companies will monitor employee social media use by 2015 to search for security breachesBy Grant GrossIDG News Service - Corporations are starting to embrace technologies used to ...
  • Massive, Advanced Cyberthreat Uncovered

    Massive, Advanced Cyberthreat UncoveredMalware Known as Flame is 20 Times the Size of StuxnetBy Eric ChabrowHighly sophisticated malware being used to spy on several countries, mostly in the Middle East, that has been around for more than two years has be...
  • New Federal Mobile IT Strategy Must Address Security

    New Federal Mobile IT Strategy Must Address SecurityAs the White House rolls out an agenda to open and optimize government data for mobile devices and accelerate use of smartphones and tablets across departments and agencies, security expert warns that fe...
  • Google to Help Rid PCs of Trojan that will Prevent Web Access

    Google to Help Rid PCs of Trojan that will Prevent Web AccessBy Dan KaplanSC Magazine - Google is using its mass reach to notify users whose machines are believed compromised by the insidious DNSChanger trojan, an infection that could result in those comp...
  • Security Expert Fools, Records Fake Antivirus Scammers

    Security Expert Fools, Records Fake Antivirus ScammersPhony AV scammers posing as Microsoft dialed the wrong number when they inadvertently phoned a security researcher at home -- he exposes their obvious lack of technical know-howBy Kelly Jackson Higgins...
  • 7 Lessons From MilitarySingles.com Hack

    7 Lessons From MilitarySingles.com HackLulzSec Reborn hacktivist group exploited the site's poor security checks on user-uploaded content, made away with easily cracked passwords.By Mathew J. SchwartzInformationWeek - Want to stop hackers from stealing se...
  • Confidential data: Delete it or Eat it, Say Security Experts

    Confidential data: Delete it or Eat it, Say Security ExpertsHoarding sensitive information is easy and inexpensive, but as the collected information grows, so do the risksBy Taylor ArmerdingCSO — The only way for companies to guarantee their confidentia...
  • Researchers 'Map' Android Malware Genome

    Researchers 'Map' Android Malware GenomeNew initiative promotes sharing of Android malware research worldwide, beefing up mobile anti-malware toolsBy Kelly Jackson HigginsDark Reading - Researchers at NC State today announced the Android Malware Genome Pr...
  • Mcafee Reports Big Spike in Malware

    Mcafee Reports Big Spike in MalwareA quarterly threat report found password-stealing Trojans on the riseBy Cameron ScottIDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) — PC malware had its "busiest quarter in recent history," according to McAfee's quarterly sec...
  • Anonymous Leaks 1.7 GB Justice Department Database

    Anonymous Leaks 1.7 GB Justice Department DatabaseAttackers were assisted by Anonymous affiliate AntiS3curityOPS, which launched its own anti-NATO attack against the Chicago Police Department website.By Mathew J. SchwartzInformationWeek - In what was bill...
  • 5 Tips for Social Business Adoption: How SAS Succeeded

    5 Tips for Social Business Adoption: How SAS SucceededSAS needed a way to consolidate information repositories and wrangle millennials from using Facebook for work purposes. Here's how the business analytics company decided on and rolled out their enterpr...
  • Cyber Warfare in Sights at Government Training Conference

    Cyber Warfare in Sights at Government Training ConferenceThe prospect of cyberwar means the U.S. needs to 'rethink every aspect of defense,' says one summit presenterBy Taylor ArmerdingCSO — Government planning scenarios to prevent cyber-terrorist attac...
  • How to Avoid 5 Common Email Management Mistakes

    How to Avoid 5 Common Email Management MistakesEmail managers have a lot at stake.By Susan Perschke, Network WorldEmail managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via email dwarfs all other forms of electronic c...
  • Delete Data To Delete Risk

    http://bit.ly/JDcyGHDelete Data To Delete RiskSmart data-retention policies allow an organization to rid itself of risky data when there's no need to keep it in the database anymoreMay 16, 2012 | 05:06 PM |  0 CommentsBy Ericka Chickowski, Contributing W...
  • 7 Tips for Establishing a Successful BYOD Policy

    7 Tips for Establishing a Successful BYOD PolicyIf you haven't developed a corporate Bring Your Own Device policy, or if the one you have is out of date, these tips will help you address device security, IT service, application use and other key component...
  • Forrester Outlines 5 Rising, 5 Declining Security Technologies

    Forrester Outlines 5 Rising, 5 Declining Security TechnologiesForrester Research puts its bets on next-generation firewalls; says 'stand-alone NAC' is dyingBy Ellen Messmer, Network WorldSecurity technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Res...
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