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7 simple steps for thwarting hactivists
More data was stolen from corporate networks last year by hactivists than by cybercriminals, according to a new report from Verizon. Read More


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WHITE PAPER: McAfee

Data Loss by the Numbers
This paper breaks down attack sources into four categories: external, malicious insiders, accidental insiders, and unknown. Breach categories are limited to areas that are most directly associated with data centers. View Now

How GSA is securing its cloud apps
As the General Services Administration (GSA) migrates to a work-anywhere, work-anytime strategy, the real estate arm of the U.S. federal government is discovering that having an iron-clad security strategy is critical to its adoption of cloud-based applications. Read More

Ads in mobile apps aren't just annoying -- they're risky, too
Many mobile apps include ads that can threaten users' privacy and network security, according to North Carolina State University researchers. Read More

Symantec to acquire Nukona to assist in BYOD strategy
Symantec today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire privately held Nukona, a maker of mobile application management software, for an undisclosed price. Read More

Biggest threat to corporate nets in 2011? Hactivists, not cybercriminals
Hactivists - not cybercriminals - were responsible for the majority of personal data stolen from corporate and government networks during 2011, according to a new report from Verizon. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Silver Peak's Advantages in a Disaster Recovery Environment
Why do industry analysts agree Silver Peak is the WAN Optimization vendor of choice for offsite data replication? It starts with a unique, next generation architecture. Read more.

Why Hackers Set Their Sights on Small Businesses
If you run a small business, and think that none of your data was of interest to a hacker, consider this: what if a hacker could take stolen bank account or credit card information from your computer and package it with the same information from a hundred or a thousand other small businesses? Would it be worth something then? Read More

Most webmasters don't know how their websites got hacked, report says
Most owners of compromised websites don't know how their sites got hacked into and only 6 percent detect the malicious activity on their own, according to a report released by StopBadware and Commtouch on Thursday. Read More

eBay CISO receiving security industry lifetime achievement award
Dave Cullinane, chief information security officer at eBay, will be honored on March 28 in Boston with the SecureWorld Lifetime Achievement Award "for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of the information security community." Read More

LulzSec is back; Anonymous targets Imperva
Hacker collective LulzSec, six of whose members were arrested earlier this month, will resume active operation April 1, according to a video posted on YouTube. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

Data Center Transformations
This paper discusses ways to simplify data center transformation and introduces a new process – BOCA – Build Outs, Consolidations and Acquisitions. Learn the five stages of BOCA and see how the right remote access and IT infrastructure management tools, deployed early and continuously monitored, can dramatically improve overall efficiency. Read now!

Cyber-espionage botnet tied to country of Georgia website remains a mystery
A security firm in Slovakia is asserting that a website operated by the country of Georgia has been used as part of a botnet to conduct cyber-espionage against that country's residents. Read More

Researchers find new type of 'fileless' malware
Researchers have discovered an extremely rare and possibly unique form of "fileless" malware that executes entirely in memory without the need to save any files to the hard drive of a victim's PC. Read More

Firefox to turn on default encryption for all Google searches
Mozilla is currently testing default encrypted Google searches for all Firefox users, with the intent to make all Google searches encrypted in the near future, the browser maker said on Wednesday. Read More

Most fraud against businesses from bad checks, not electronic payments
When it comes to financial fraud against businesses, it's old-fashioned paper checks that wreak more monetary damage than fraud committed through electronic payments, such as debit/credit, corporate cards, or Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) payments. Read More

Developers say application security lacking
Are enterprise applications really secure? It depends on whom you ask. Read More

Blue Coat unifies security reporting in cloud service, appliances
Blue Coat Systems today said it's unified the real-time reporting in its cloud-based security service with that in its full line of ProxySG security appliances so that enterprises receive real-time information related to both. Read More



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