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Article | 22/09/2011 Netflix deals with cloud security concerns

As Netflix commits its future to streaming movies to customers, it relies almost exclusively on cloud services for its infrastructure, raising securit...

Article | 22/09/2011 Data-breach insurance caters to small businesses

With the proliferation of data breaches, The Harford insurance company is selling a new data loss insurance aimed at small businesses that might be pu...

Article | 22/09/2011 Open this malware or I'll sue you

The latest social engineering trick to get victims to open malicious email attachments accuses them of being spammers and threatens to sue them if the...

Article | 22/09/2011 Strangeloop enables faster downloads for Apple, Android, Microsoft smartphones

Strangeloop is coming out with a Web-site optimizer that speeds up page builds on mobile devices based on Apple, Android and Microsoft operating syste...

Article | 21/09/2011 Cisco and Microsoft cooperate to bring network-layer management to Hyper-V

Windows Server 8 looks promising enough that Cisco it is queuing up two new products designed to extend its network controls to Hyper-V virtual enviro...

Article | 21/09/2011 DigiNotar certificate authority goes bankrupt

The theft of SSL certificates from Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar so undermined trust in the company that it has gone bankrupt.

Article | 13/09/2011 Dome9 launches automated firewall management service

Startup Dome9 Security is introducing automated management of firewall settings on servers in physical and virtual environments with the aim of keepin...

Article | 8/09/2011 Cybercrime costs rival those of illegal drug trafficking

Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cybercrime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug t...

Article | 19/08/2011 With SSL, who can you really trust?

SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they ...

Article | 18/08/2011 Report: Spam is at a two-year high

Spam - particularly the kind with malicious attachments - is exploding, reaching a two-year high overall, which includes the spike last fall just befo...

Article | 18/08/2011 Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities

Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the p...

Article | 10/08/2011 Defcon: VoIP makes a good platform for controlling botnets

LAS VEGAS -- Botnets and their masters can communicate with each other by calling into the same VoIP conference call and swapping data using touch ton...

Article | 9/08/2011 Defcon: The lesson of Anonymous? Corporate security sucks

LAS VEGAS -- Anonymous has run up quite a score against corporations, governments and law enforcement agencies, but for all these warnings corporate e...

Article | 2/08/2011 Black Hat: System links your face to your Social Security number and other private things

Soon it will be practicable to take someone's photo on a smartphone and within minutes know their Social Security number and a range of other private ...

Article | 30/07/2011 How to survive Black Hat and Defcon without getting hacked -- maybe

Among the thousands of security experts at the Black Hat, Defcon and Security BSides conferences next week in Las Vegas, some will surely test whether...