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Monster.com security breached yet again...

Monster.com security breached yet again…

Job-search website: Monster.com has reportedly been breached, for the second time, in less than 18 months. Not only was the main database’s security compromised, but Monster’s parent company, USAJobs.gov, was hacked into as well.
Website attacks are becoming so common, security experts say, that Monster Worldwide Inc. won’t necessarily frighten existing and potential customers away, when [...]

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Cyber crime and how these criminals keep reinventing their methods of attack

Cyber crime and how these criminals keep reinventing their methods of attack

Cyber crime is being propagated by the fact that cybercriminals are leveraging new technologies, as well as reinventing social engineering forms, so as to coerce and entrap consumers.
Due to this very fact, the last six months has seen an increase in Web threats, and a steady decrease in Adware and Spyware, as a combating force, [...]

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SecureCloud 2010: The future of cloud security

SecureCloud 2010: The future of cloud security

SecureCloud 2010 is actually an educational and networking event which is organized by ENISA, the Cloud Security Alliance and ISACA, three of the leading organizations shaping the future of cloud computing security. This event is going to be held in Barcelona in Spain, in March this year.

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Chinese security company shares huge malware database

A Chinese company that has created a massive database of malware found on Chinese Web sites has opened up its information to other security organizations.
Beijing-based KnownSec gathered the viruses and other information with a crawler that scans nearly 2 million Chinese Web sites each day.
Zhao Wei, the CEO of KnownSec, said in an interview in [...]

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Read on for Internet Security Tips when it comes to spam emails…

As with all good things in life, there is always the counterpart – which is not so good. In the case of emails – which we can all agree is a great invention, which none of us could imagine having to go without  0- in this digital era – well, emails’ negative counterpart happens to [...]

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Windows 7 Offers Smarter Security for those on the go

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s new Windows 7 operating system includes technology designed to erect different lines of defences depending on the type of network connection in place.
For example, Windows 7 will automatically implement “public” firewall settings for a Sales Representative who connects to the Internet through a hotel broadband service. If the Sales Representative then establishes

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Numerous Businesses Daunted by Cloud Security

An astonishing 80% of businesses that are using cloud computing service providers are not accessing how these firms ensure the data is kept private, says Deloitte.
The firm said in a report (entitled ‘Enterprise@Risk:Privacy & Data Protections Survey’) that is was unclear whether that’s because they lack the means to make sure cloud providers are actually [...]

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Safari, Opera Users fall behind in Security Updates

A study today found that users of the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers are far more likely to be surfing the Web with the latest, most protected versions of the browsers than users of either Opera or Safari.
Researchers at c Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology studied through anonymized logs from [...]

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GFI Software releases GFI Backup 2009 – Home Edition

GFi Software is ahead of the grain in this particular instance. Bearing in mind the woes of your ordinary home PC user, GFI have developed a product which assists the PC user and helps them understand the importance of data back-ups. The FREE version of GFI Backup 2009 – Home Edition, is perfect as it [...]

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Security Viewpoint – March 2009

Windows 7 builds upon the strong security lineage of Windows Vista and retains and builds upon the development processes and technologies that have made Windows Vista the most secure version of the Windows client to date. Basic security features such as Kernel Patch Protection, Service Hardening, Data Execution Prevention, Address Space Layout Randomization, and Mandatory [...]

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