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Article | 17/05/2011 Dropbox drops the ball on data security
Dropbox, a provider of cloud-based data storage services, is in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission over claims that it lied and intentionally...
Article | 1/05/2011 Projected cost of Epsilon breach jumps to $4 billion
The ultimate fee for the data breach last month at email service provider Epsilon could reach as high as $4 billion, depending on what becomes of the ...
Article | 18/04/2011 Toshiba self-encrypting hard drive has promise
Toshiba has introduced a series of self-encrypting hard drives that come with what the company says is a unique self-diagnostic feature that blocks ac...
Article | 1/04/2011 IBM: Mobile phone, cloud security issues can impact IT
IBM says IT staff need to pay extra attention to use of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure on business networks because both technologies are sti...
Article | 29/03/2011 Microsoft denies intentionally shutting off Hotmail encryption in Arab countries
Microsoft says it did not "intentionally limit" access to Hotmail's HTTPS encryption service in foreign countries where freedom of expression is under...
Article | 25/03/2011 Facebook tip: Enable encryption to avoid privacy glitch
Yet another reason to take extra precautions while browsing Facebook arose today as reports surfaced that traffic destined for Facebook from AT&T's se...
Article | 19/03/2011 After RSA breach, are SecurID tokens in jeopardy?
The intrusion by hackers of security giant RSA, a unit of EMC, has left customers and analysts wondering if it is still safe to use millions of the on...
Article | 17/03/2011 Twitter adds option to always use HTTPS connection
With the rising awareness and concern over the stealing of passwords and other sensitive data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks, Twitter is the latest onl...
Article | 8/03/2011 Scaling and provisioning virtual servers
While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don't address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automaticall...
Article | 5/03/2011 Germany identifies a secure way to deal with spam
In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate the...
Article | 23/02/2011 Memory scraping malware goes after encrypted private information
What's "pervasive memory scraping" and why is it considered by SANS Institute security researchers to be among the most dangerous attack techniques li...
Article | 14/02/2011 Samsung makes Galaxy smartphone more enterprise friendly
Hoping to make Android more attractive to security-minded CIOs, Samsung has added encryption and integrated Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client on its lates...
Article | 10/02/2011 IPhone attack reveals passwords in six minutes
Researchers in Germany say they've been able to reveal passwords stored in a locked iPhone in just six minutes and they did it without cracking the ph...
Article | 25/01/2011 Carberp banking malware upgrades itself
A piece of banking malware that researchers have been keeping an eye on is adding more sophisticated capabilities to stay hidden on victims' PCs, acco...
Article | 8/12/2010 WikiLeaks: Don't shoot the messenger
With all of the hype and furor over WikiLeaks exposing sensitive government documents, it is easy to jump to the conclusion that WikiLeaks is bad, and...