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Article | 9/03/2011 Malvertising continues to pound legitimate websites
In the last three months of 2010 attackers managed to serve 3 million malicious advertising, or malvertising, impressions every day. That's the headli...
Article | 8/03/2011 10 utilities to secure your data
Very few people (certainly not the smart, savvy, people who read PCWorld articles) run their computers without up-to-date firewall and antivirus softw...
Article | 8/03/2011 Eight security tips from the HBGary Hack
Thanks to Ars Technica and H-online.com, we now have intimate details of the Anonymous attack against security research company HBGary. There are no s...
Article | 8/03/2011 New firewalls should increase protection
This week, my company began deploying new firewalls. The old ones have been in place for more than six years; the new ones will allow us to take advan...
Article | 2/03/2011 Intel and McAfee set to take security beyond the PC
Intel's acquisition of McAfee -- originally announced last August -- has passed regulatory hurdles and is now official. The question now is: "What doe...
Article | 22/02/2011 Lessons learned thanks to HBGary and Anonymous
A week or so ago, I had never heard of HBGary. I assume you probably hadn't either. Now we know HBGary all too well after an attempt to make a name by...
Article | 17/02/2011 Open source web firewall launched by Qualys
Today's web application firewalls are not up to the challenge of securing cloud systems according to security company Qualys which has set out its alt...
Article | 4/02/2011 Hospitals kill the fax and exchange health data over the Internet
Health-care facilities in two states have begun exchanging data with each other and public health agencies over the Internet as part of a pilot progra...
Article | 1/02/2011 Kaspersky vows anti-virus products are safe despite source-code theft
Kasperesky Lab says the anti-virus source code that one of its employees stole three years ago and distributed online cannot harm customers of the com...
Article | 29/01/2011 Get internet access when your government shuts it down
These days, no popular movement goes without an Internet presence of some kind, whether it's organizing on Facebook or spreading the word through Twit...
Article | 26/01/2011 Low-cost SSL proxy could bring cheaper, faster security; defeat threats like Firesheep
Researchers have found a cheaper, faster way to process SSL/TLS with off-the-shelf hardware, a development that could let more Web sites shut down cyb...
Article | 25/01/2011 Appliance automates malware detection
Security firm NetWitness today announced Spectrum, an appliance for enabling automated malware analysis that works in conjunction with the company's t...
Article | 20/01/2011 Experts weigh in on cyber war report
Until recently, "cyber war" has been reserved for science fiction thrillers -- like something you might expect from William Gibson. In the past few ye...
Article | 14/01/2011 Watchdogs sniff out six critical cybersecurity challenges facing the electrical grid
As the country's electricity grid undergoes a transformation and moves toward a more intelligently networked, automated system, it faces an increasing...
Article | 17/12/2010 More censorship, data breaches and devices: Security predictions for 2011
This past year has been a doozy in the security world.