Companies working to harden their security have found that the efforts have resulted in fewer incidents of unauthorised computer use and a decline in damages from security incidents, a computer security group said in a report released Thursday.
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.
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Companies are being exposed to risks by home workers' bad behaviour online, such as hijacking the neighbour's Wi-Fi and opening unsafe e-mails.
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has launched a new study into the effects of cybercrime on Australian commerce by commissioning a survey of more than 10,000 businesses across the country, seeking information about their experiences with online transgressions and what is being done to prevent them.
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A new survey highlights a predictable problem: there could be lots of risky private information stored on USB sticks. That's about as surprising as Paris Hilton flaunting her lady garden in public.
Managers in charge of storage have a lot to worry about, but there seems no particular reason why people in this corner of the world should be more concerned about security than anything else. Why is it that securing our data matters more to us than accessing it?
ICT salaries are rising, but they are certainly not skyrocketing.
The latest Internet Threat Survey from Symantec is a whopping 120 pages and unlike in its previous reports, the company has avoided any mention of malware for Apple's OS X.
As one analyst group predicts a boom in outsourcing, another says that few firms are prepared to hand over the security of their IT systems.
A survey of IT security managers and administrators, found that 54 per cent believe their organisation is not doing enough to combat cybercrime.
A "failure to invest [in] and failure to enforce" information technology safety measures will lead to an increase in organisational security breaches around the world, according to advisory and research body Ernst & Young.
A survey of chief information officers has found that while IT departments are investing in new software, they are wary of CRM packages.
Attacks on corporate networks have gone down, but cyber-vandals now have a much larger pool of software vulnerabilities to attack, a report has warned.
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