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NASA scrambles to encrypt laptops after major breach

Personally identifiable information on NASA employees, contractors exposed in Oct. 31 laptop theft; workers told of incident this week

Nov 14, 2012 4 mins

Careers Government Network Security

Nine security controls to look for in cloud contracts

Gartner says cloud SLAs are "weak but improving;" but just how effective are those controls?

Nov 14, 2012 3 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Security

Gartner’s state of cloud security: Outages are bigger risk than breaches

Outages by various cloud providers have been more common than security breaches, Gartner says, but few businesses are prepared for them

Nov 14, 2012 5 mins

Cloud Computing Security

SSL decryption may be needed for security reasons, but employees are likely to ‘freak out’

At Palo Alto Networks conference, one security expert explains why

Nov 14, 2012 4 mins

Mobile Security Network Security Security

Skype blocks password resets after trivial account hijacking flaw made public

Knowing the email address associated with a Skype account was sufficient to hijack it

Nov 14, 2012 3 mins

Access Control Malware Small and Medium Business

Office 365 email conks out twice within a week

Antivirus issue, infrastructure failures to blame

Nov 14, 2012 3 mins

Email Clients Microsoft 365 Security

DARPA wants army of networked amateur astronomers to watch sky for space junk

SpaceView program aimed at offering more data to the US Air Force’s Space Surveillance Network

Nov 14, 2012 4 mins

Enterprise Applications Security

Final attempt to pass cybersecurity legislation appears doomed

Republicans say 'no closer to compromise' than last summer

Nov 14, 2012 5 mins

Compliance Cybercrime Malware

If the Internet is magic, why can’t we vote on it

Another election and another round of calls to use Internet voting

Nov 14, 2012 3 mins

Data Center Networking Security

Palo Alto Networks aspires to anti-malware defense role with WildFire

But can the next-generation firewall vendor meet the demands around BYOD mobile devices?

Nov 14, 2012 5 mins

Malware Network Security Security