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The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security -- one that may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an...

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Security--the topic, and thus the department--sometimes gets pigeonholed as a downer. Maybe from time to time you notice a coworker avoiding getting in the elevator with you. A CSO once told me...

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I just finished up a trip to Panama City, Panama. I’ve been to several countries in Central America like Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but this was my first trip to Panama. In...

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The executive director of Utah's Department of Technology Services has resigned over a data breach two months ago that exposed the Social Security numbers of about 280,000 Medicaid recipients.

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I love Facebook. I also hate it. And sometimes I'm indifferent, but not often. As the big IPO day looms closer, lots of folks are taking a second look at this thing that started out as kind of a...

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Brazil is finally on the way of new cybercrime legislation, at the same time Carolina Dieckmann, a famous Brazilian actress, recently became the victim of cyber attacks that allowed cybercriminals to...

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Those who attempt to predict the future run the risk of being wrong. But those who overlook the importance of conducting a prospective analysis adopt a passive attitude that weakens them against the...

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Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying...

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The Opfake gang can be called many things but “lazy” isn't one of them. In the digital age we live in, they are taking the analog art of social engineering to new heights. Several...

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In my two previous entries, I discussed the security concerns around implementing Big Data for companies and how Big Data is used to provide Security Intelligence that recognizes bad behavior and...

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The last flaw is a dangerous SQL Injection that can be utilized to compromise the application’s database management system. Researchers from the Vulnerability Lab have identified a number of web...

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This is a clarification to Dan's diary from yesterday. We are interested to hear, if anybody else is ...(more)...

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Let’s get one thing straight: it’s no longer possible to deny that your life in the physical world and your digital life are one and the same. Meaning, while you are present here on the ground, you...

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Rogue antivirus has not really taken much attention recently, probably because they are no longer boldly screaming in everyone's faces, as compared to the time a couple of years ago when most...

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14 May 2012 – Sogeti Nederland B.V. has just announced the first ever Social Engineering and CTF Challenge (#SSEC2012) in Europe. Hosted at the third annual HITB Security...

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A video released by Tenable Security showing a visualization of an office network is pretty wild. Using different colors and lines users can pin-point problem areas based on traffic and data being...

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Google released the newest version of its popular Chrome Web browser Tuesday, fixing 18 security glitches and adding a convenient new feature for its customers.  Google classified seven of the...

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Researchers from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity.  The...

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Research by mobile device management firm Zenprise found that Angry Birds was the most-blacklisted application among users enrolled in its Zencloud MDM service. Other mobile apps that companies...

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Visitors to Wikipedia who see advertisements on the site have most likely fallen victim to a browser-based malware infection, Wikimedia Foundation, the organization operating the website, said on...

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The MPAA has welcomed recent court decisions around Europe that have seen orders to censor the BitTorrent indexer website, The Pirate Bay.  Writing on their official blog, the MPAA welcome rulings...

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