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Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Security

Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn. Some of...

Online banking device reads information from a screen

As German banks layer more security into their online banking procedures, security vendor Gemalto has launched a device it says makes completing...

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Experts Only: Time to Ditch the Antivirus?

To the average IT security practitioner, the idea of disabling antivirus on new machines might seem blasphemous. After all, weren't we all told in IT...

Top 10 Threats to SME Data Security (and what to do about them) WHITE PAPER

For a no-nonsense perspective on the most common types of network and data compromises in small to medium sized businesses, read this white paper. It...

Intel, Oracle, PayPal back ID technology interop group

The Kantara Initiative, formed to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services, launched on Wednesday with big-name...

China to propose WLAN security standard for global use again

China will submit its wireless LAN security protocol to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for consideration as a global...

Security Analyst to DLP Vendors: Watch Your Language

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is all the rage in this era of data security breaches [see our data breach timeline] and increasingly clever malware...

When Corporate Network Safety Starts at Employees' Homes: Protecting Your Network from Home Wireless Hackers WHITE PAPER

IT managers must train their end users on wireless security, specifying wireless router hardware and configuration settings, and in some cases,...

Hardware and identity management

Those of you who know me know that I rarely get excited about hardware. And while I'll be telling you about two hardware companies in this...

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Obama's cybersecurity chief to be a 'coordinator' not 'czar'

In a speech at the White House today, President Obama put forward his vision for protecting the nation’s critical IT infrastructure from attack, and...

InfoExpress latest NAC vendor to push services

InfoExpress is introducing a managed network access control service designed to reduce the ongoing costs of network access protection and provide...

How WatchGuard Could Have Saved Hannaford and TJX Money: Real-World ROI Calculations for Retail Network Security Solutions WHITE PAPER

What is the actual dollar value of stronger network security? We don't mean hypothetically; we're talking about documented cases of network attacks...

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Wedded bliss: NAC and identity management

Network access control is one of those technology categories that has a lot of promise but not a lot of users, despite the fact that solutions have...

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iPhone Security, Part 2

Steinberger: Based on my personal observation and analysis, the main security constraints imposed by the iPhone Operating System are as follows.

iPhone security, Part 1

My friend and colleague Adjunct Professor Richard Steinberger from the MSIA Program at Norwich University sent me an e-mail note recently about the...

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