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IPhone / Smartphone Security

Overview of IPhone and Smartphone security

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Achieving HIPAA Security Rule Compliance

Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online. Lumension helps organizations address these compliance challenges by providing the proactive risk management

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Bad security update brings down PCs worldwide

A number of BitDefender users, whose 64-bit Windows systems stopped working or were unable to be rebooted after updating their security programs, vented their frustration by flooding the antivirus (AV) vendor's forum pages over the weekend

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HSBC Confirms Massive Database Security Breach

HSBC this week confirmed that a data theft it first uncovered last year impacted more than 24,000 people, or 15 percent of its total clients, a far cry from the 10 customers it originally said were affected.

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Survey: Pay rise for half of Asia Pacific security pros

Defying expectations amid a global recession, the (ISC)2 2010 Career Impact Survey found that half of information security professionals surveyed in both Asia Pacific and worldwide received salary increases in 2009

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US Homeland Security hearing: Senators scratching heads over IT-related testimony

The Senate Committee on Homeland Security yesterday heard testimony from the IT side of intelligence agencies with respect to the Christmas Day bombing attempt.

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'Highly critical' flaw found in Opera browser

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing HTTP responses having a malformed “Content-Length” header. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly large 64-bit “Content-Length” value

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Security experts on next cyberwarfare steps

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Richard Clarke, chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, and Marc Rotenberg, share their views on how to best stop cyberthreats in the future

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Mariposa botnet masters arrested, 12M+ hosts compromised

According to a statement published by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, the botnet masters behind a 12M+ infected hosts botnet dubbed Mariposa, were arrested in a cooperative effort between law enforcement, security vendors and the academic community

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How to Install Linux Environment Security (LES)

Linux Environment Security is intended as a facility to quickly & easily secure RedHat/RPM based environments (i.e: turbo linux, open linux). It does such by enforcing root-only permissions

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Acquisition of Intellitactics by Trustwave

Intellitactics, one of the SIEM provider has been acquired by Trustwave

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Best Free Trojan Scanner/Trojan Remover

Most PCs are now connected to the Internet and networks, making easier the spread of malicious software (malware), which includes trojans (also known as trojan horses), viruses, worms, spyware, adware, rootkits

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Internet Monitoring

There are many safety options for your computer. The two most popular are monitors and filters. Deciding what type of protection to use for the Internet can be frustrating. So, it is helpful to compare the pros and cons of these different choices

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Vendor and model-specific tips for optimizing firewall performance

Do your firewalls need a tune-up? In our last column, we looked at general ways that firewall performance can be improved to overcome problems such as high CPU utilization, low throughput, and slow applications

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How to secure SSHD deamon

Securing your sshd service is pretty simple and straight forward

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Google hackers loosely tied to Chinese government?

Analysts working for the U.S. government reportedly are close to tying the China hack attacks on Google to two educational institutions, one with ties to the Chinese military

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URL typos earn Google $497 million per year, study says

Google could be earning some $497 million a year from the registered owners of website addresses that mimic typographical errors in existing sites, according to a new study.

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Exploit for Firefox 3.6

Russian security firm Intevydis has made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Firefox 3.6 available to its customers. The exploit allows attackers to remotely gain control of a PC

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HIPS vs Behavior Blocking

A host intrusion prevention system (HIPS) monitors each activity a program attempts and (depending on configuration) prompts the user for action or responds based on pre-defined criteria.

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Keylogger in email attachment still the easiest route to enterprise hacking

Three million emails are sent in the world every second. This is the latest estimate from the Radicati Group in their 'Email Statistics Report, 2009-2013'

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