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Beg, Borrow or Steal? Young Professionals, Students Admit They’ll Go To Extreme Measures to Get Online Despite IT Policies

France based INSIDE Secure, a provider of semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide Intel with INSIDE’s Near Field Communication (NFC) products and technologies.

FBI agents arrested a Connecticut man on Tuesday morning, who is being charged with conducting a denial of service attack against GeneSimmons.com, the official website for the rockstar leader of the band KISS.

As part of their scheduled patch cycles, Microsoft and Adobe Systems today released patches aimed at securing users.Microsoft released 13 security bulletins today for Patch Tuesday, including a patch for the security vulnerability (MS11-087) exploited by Duqu. Adobe meanwhile issued an update for its ColdFusion software for Windows, Mac and UNIX that closes a pair of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in version 9.0.1 and earlier.

The FBI is downplaying speculation that its denial of a request for records regarding its possible use of Carrier IQ's software is proof-positive the agency is using the software’s data collection capabilities.

When Evaluating Firewalls, Understand What the Choices Mean in Terms of Benefits and Trade Offs for your Network.Maybe like me, you remember the early days of firewalls. This is before the word resonated as a network architecture imperative.

DHS Guide Outlines Cybersecurity Strategy for the Homeland Security Enterprise

The minds behind the Nitro attacks discovered targeting chemical companies earlier this year are at it again. But this time, they have added a new twist – they are disguising malware as an attachment from Symantec.

AlgoSec is making a play to bring its firewall management capabilities to virtual environments.The latest update of the company’s Security Management Suite (version 6.1) has added support for Check Point Security Gateway Virtual Edition. Support for other hypervisor-level firewalls is coming in the future, but the company would not commit to a firm timeline of when that would be or what products will be added to the list.

A recent study from HP and the Ponemon Institute surveyed more than 5,500 IT professionals, from operations to security management, to gauge potential problems with user access and policy enforcement. The results? Unchecked access to data is still an issue, no matter what segment of the business world you’re looking at.

Sophisticated Malware is Crafted to Ensure it Remains Undetected by Antivirus Products. Organizations Must Prepare to Deal with Unknown Files.

The operator of a credit card fraud ring that ran up and down the east coast was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison for running operation that that used counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account numbers.Jonathan Oliveras, 26 of Brooklyn, N.Y., managed a crime ring that used stolen credit card account information in New York, New Jersey and the Washington, D.C., area.

In October 2010, Sourcefire announced its planned expansion into the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) market. Just over a year later, the Columbia, Maryland based company has officially made its launch into the NGFW space and will begin shipping the devices by the end of this month.

Sometime around the beginning of November, thieves managed to insert an additional circuit board into the self checkout Point of Sale (POS) machines Lucky’s stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since then, the company has collected more than 80 consumer and employee reports of fraudulent attempt to access bank account data. Unfortunately, there is nothing new or novel about this attack, only that it continues to happen in the age of smart embedded systems and PCI.

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NT OBJECTives, an application security vendor based in Irvine, California, has released a new tool that not only scans for SQL Injection vulnerabilities, but also exploits them with just a few extra clicks.

Which Web Browser is the Most Secure? New Research Tests How Web Browsers Stand Up Against Today's Web-based ThreatsSecurity research firm Accuvant, today released the results a study comparing the security of the three most widely used web browsers – Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo continued its investment in the security space today, announcing that it has agreed to acquire Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web security and WAN optimization solutions, for approximately $1.3 billion in cash.

China based telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies said today that it would voluntarily curb its business efforts in Iran, citing an increasingly complex situation in the country.In a statement, the company said it would no longer seek new customers, and that it would limit its business activities with existing customers.

In October 2010, Version 2.0 of the Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (affectionately called PCI-DSS) was released by the Security Standards Council and went into effect January 1, 2011. Most of the changes were focused on clarification of existing guidelines but could have an impact on the steps required to get PCI compliant.