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Let’s start with the visual image of one of those mechanical claw arcade machines – the one where you insert a few quarters and grab a toy with a mechanical claw. These can be addictive games for some of us.Let’s take that same visual image. But instead of a claw dropping down onto a pile of beanie babies, let’s visualize a hacker reaching through your login screen and feeling around for your database. Picture the hacker running impenetrable scripts instead...

The Split-Personality Year of 2011 will Lead Organizations to Make Sure they are Protected in 2012:  The Year of Ubiquitous Encryption. 

Adobe Systems plans to release a patch Friday to close an Adobe Reader and Acrobat security hole at the center of an attack campaign on the defense industry.

Industry Organization Approves Industry-wide Standard for The Issuance and Management of SSL/TLS Digital CertificatesSSL certificates are supposed to be a mechanism for authenticating the ownership of Websites.

Provider of Cloud-Based Email Security and Compliance Solutions Could Raise Approximately $50 Million Through IPOProofpoint Inc., a Sunnyvale, California based provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, filed an S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week for a proposed initial public offering.

2011 Year in Review: Seven Prime Hacks and Why They are Significant

In today’s digital world, trust is a critical component as consumers spend considerable amounts of time online and on mobile devices shopping, searching and communicating. While these consumers are increasingly becoming concerned with privacy, businesses may be surprised to find out who their customers actually trust, and what it takes to maintain their trust.

Report Highlights Need for Enterprises to Implement Proper Password Security Policies and Procedures, Treat as Highly Valuable Data.

Hitachi-LG Data Storage Execs Pay Fines and Head to Prison After Conspiring to Fix the Bidding for Contracts with HP, Dell, and MicrosoftThree Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (HLDS) executives have agreed to pay fines and serve seven to eight months in a U.S. prison, after reaching a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on price fixing conspiracy charges related to optical disk drives.

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.