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Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.
A UK government-sponsored security survey reports that security breaches have fallen by a third in the past two years but spending on security has increased significantly.
Despite US researchers showing that hard disk encryption can be easily compromised, Australian Customs say its Vista laptops are safe because data is not stored on them -- but analysts have warned users will find a way around this policy when they need to.
Shortly after joining the social networking site, I received an e-mail telling me a friend had "written on my wall". Within two clicks I was logged-in and had full access to her Facebook account.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
It's not very often that a company gets hacked and then agrees to talk about the incident, so when the finance director of a Sydney-based firm asked if I would be interested in writing a story about a security breach that cost him AU$9,000, I grabbed the opportunity.
Poorly trained staff and human error are the main causes of network security breaches, according to a recent survey.
Microsoft is investigating a security breach on a server that hosts its Windowsbeta community, which allows more than 20,000 Windows users a chance to test software that is still in development.
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A serious vulnerability, which may allow attackers to gain confidential information, has been found in PeopleSoft's Application Messaging Gateway servlet.
Universities are looking for ways to protect networks while maintaining a free flow of data and ideas -- an idea businesses could learn from.
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Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?
Yoggie's Gatekeeper Card Pro delivers powerful plug-and-play protection for notebooks, removes the need to manage multiple software subscriptions and can boost your notebook's performance by removing the security software overhead.
Fortinet has taken their proven UTM firmware and hardware experience and combined those with a 24-port network switch. While perhaps not suited to larger enterprises, the FortiGate-224B certainly represents an excellent proposition for SMB or branch office deployment and worthy of further research.
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