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09/03/2010
India and Russia are the biggest producers of viruses
According to analysis of internet threats by Network Box, India has overtaken the US as the single biggest producer of viruses. India is now responsible for 13.74 per cent of the worlds viruses, up from 9.5 per cent in July. Russia is the next in line, producing just over 11 per cent of viruses - a jump from last months 4.01 per cent. The US acco
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09/03/2010
Misconfigured networks are the easiest IT resource hackers exploit
Tufin Technologies's annual Hacking Habits survey aims to better understand how trends in the hacking community impact corporate security teams. Responses from security professionals attending the DEF CON18 conference in Las Vegas last month revealed that 73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time which, accordi
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09/03/2010
The Return of Ransomware and Do-it-Yourself Botnets
According to Fortinet's August 2010 Threat Landscape report, ransomware variant TotalSecurity has made its biggest comeback since March. Ransomware is malware that locks out applications and data from a users PC and then demands ransom for restored access, and TotalSecurity loader (W32/FakeAlert.LU) was the no. 1 malware detected this month by For
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09/03/2010
Atos Origin secures and manages the IT systems for Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games
Singapore hosted the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) from 14 to 26 August 2010. The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games received some 5,000 athletes and officials from the 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), along with 1,750 media representatives, 20,000 local and international volunteers and 320,000 spectators. Young athletes - aged between
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09/03/2010
Djigzo partners with Comodo to provide email encryption and authentication solution
Djigzo has teamed with Comodo to provide an easy to use email encryption and authentication solution. As a result of this collaboration, the Djigzo email encryption and authentication gateway will be able to interface directly with Comodo's managed Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (EPKI). A fully automated certificate request procedure allo
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09/03/2010
Data protection laws are too relaxed and require revision
In April this year, the ICO was empowered to impose fines of up to £500,000 on companies found to have breached the data protection principles, while the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) issued a Call for Evidence to learn whether the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the Data Protection Act 1998 is working and how it is impacting on individ
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09/03/2010
Zeus financial malware targets online banking customers by exploiting Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode security programs
Zeus, which is also known as Zbot, WSNPOEM, NTOS and PRG, is the most prevalent banking malware platform for online fraud, and has been licensed by numerous criminal organizations. It infects PCs, waits for the user to log onto a list of targeted banks and financial institutions, and then steals their credentials which are sent to a remote server i
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09/03/2010
The challenge of protecting multiple and increasingly disparate end user environments
Most organisations have many different end user environments, often across physical locations and comprising individuals who use a wide-range of technologies to handle information. These disparate end user environments are subject to factors such as diverse cultures and different operating conditions that make managing information security extremel
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09/03/2010
The USA continues to be the number one spam polluter whle Europe becomes the most prolific continent for spamming
Spam emails make up 97% of all emails received by business email servers, both putting a strain on network resources and wasting a huge amount of time to lost productivity. Used largely as a method for selling counterfeit or illicit goods, virtually all spam comes from malware infected computers (known as bots or zombies) that are controlled by 'b
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09/03/2010
Quantix partners with Signify to offer two-factor authentication in its cloud environment
Quantix is partnering with Signify to offer all customers two-factor authentication (2FA) in its cloud environment. By delivering Signifys hosted 2FA service as standard, Quantix is able to alleviate security concerns and provide a scalable cloud model that ensures data and applications are safer than they would be in the average customers own IT
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