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Microsoft unleashes Cybercrime Center
Microsoft yesterday posted the announcement “Digital Detectives” to publicly herald its seriously cutting-edge Cybercrime Center. We’ve seen Microsoft help shut down botnets and other cybercrime in the past, but this fascinating new effort will be taking this on at a whole new level. The facility looks like something out of “24”, a science fiction or ...
What’s yours is mine – Symantec study highlights intellectual property risks
Who owns what in the employee-employer relationship? It’s an interesting line within these relationships, where definitions, boundaries and ownership intersect. We’re talking about the information and intellectual property that an employee produces while working for an employer. In an era where there is so much fluidity of data, it’s a question that brings up other ...
Cyber Monday, Cybercrime playday, up to $3.4 Million/Hour at risk – RSA report
A recent RSA announcement introduced the results of a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute that examined the cost of fraud and online disruption coinciding with Cyber Monday (December 2). Cyber Monday is of course just around the corner, and it’s the biggest online shopping day of the year, taking place annually the Monday after ...
Security developments on Android KitKat mean more enterprise and more stability
Android KitKat has been out well over a week now (in production on the Nexus 5) and for those that are running it, the new operating system is packed with many new features. Less obvious to most however are a bunch of security features that are meant for the enterprise, for better security than was ...
HP takes on supply chain security
Security risks today can come from any source. Sometimes there are deliberate attacks, sometimes, there are inadvertent security issues and they can come from outside or within your own organization, but one of the most critical points of weakness in the modern enterprise can be outsiders, third-party groups and vendors. The evidence is clear that ...
IPO for CUDA – Barracuda Networks debuts on NYSE
While it seems everyone’s talking about Twitter and their IPO, Barracuda Networks debuted on the New York Stock Exchange today with their own IPO under their trading ticker symbol CUDA. Wall St. responded by boosting the value in trading by as much as twenty percent and at the end of the day Barracuda raised upwards ...
Failure as a Service : Obamacare site security flaws emerge
The Healthcare.gov technology story isn’t going away anytime soon. As tech rescue teams have come to save the day with what they hope will be a rapid fix for the struggling site, the first of what may be a number of security issues have started to emerge. It’s a situation so dire that even the ...
NSA hacks Google and Yahoo, Schmidt responds
Google’s Eric Schmidt shared some of his thoughts on the latest disclosure from the NSA. Of particular interest were his comments surrounding the reports that the US government supposedly spied on global Google and Yahoo data centers. Schmidt called the suggestion “outrageous” and stated that if true, they would be potentially illegal acts. More controversy ...
Egnyte introduces mobile apps to its secure enterprise file sharing platform
The BYOD revolution is brought up all the time among other things, as a security issue. How should the enterprise put mobile solutions into employee’s hands and be sure the organization is properly protecting assets? Mobile Device Management is one piece of the puzzle. Protecting data is another and Egnyte has a new solution for ...
The Buffer security breach makes case for behavioral security and partner practices
You may have noticed some confusing social media messages from theCUBE or SiliconANGLE over this past weekend. That’s because the social media scheduling app Buffer had a weekend security incident that resulted in a hacking of the service for many customers, us included. What was sent out were weight loss spam links. The company responded quickly ...