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Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Mana...
Some legal minds are getting together to see what can be done to make sure that social networking Web sites like MySpace are exclusively kids' space. Researchers at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society have been chosen to head up the Internet Safety Technical Task Force -- at...
Perhaps like no other industry before it, the IT industry has come to thrive on continuous innovation coupled with rapid and widespread product introduction. In the competitive -- at times mad -- rush to be first or early to market key things are sometimes overlooked. When it comes to security, it i...
For a couple of hours on Sunday, access to YouTube worldwide was cut, the result of the Pakistani government's banning YouTube in the country. Access to YouTube elsewhere was restored after two hours or so, but the question on everyone's minds is, can this happen again? Reports say the Pakistan Tele...
A new study suggests that dynamic memory on computers stores encrypted, secure data longer than originally thought. The research project -- conducted by eight researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wind River Systems -- focused on retrieving encrypted data from...
Just as Microsoft began grappling with a glitch in the installation of a file required for its Vista Service Pack 1 download, another Vista SP1 hiccup has bubbled up. The company has confirmed that some applications may experience "a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pac...
It's not exactly Amazon.com's business model, but Borders Group appears to be at least borrowing a page from the Web-based book and music retailer by offering digital downloads. Borders, the second-largest book retailer in the U.S., on Wednesday, announced it is opening the first of 14 new concept s...
Microsoft released 11 security updates to patch 17 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, by far its largest release in a year. There were five critical and six important updates, the two highest levels issued by the software company. The patches cover a wide range of Microsoft products from Word, Publisher an...
In order to turn bigger profits from their armies of compromised computers, hackers this year will use a new tactic in targeting master boot records with viruses that plant rootkits on computers' hard drives, security experts warn. These infections activate during the boot sequence before the operat...
As repair work gets under way, rumors are flying thick and fast about the cause of a series of undersea cable cuts in the Middle East in recent days. The latest is that a fifth undersea cable has been cut -- or it could be a second cut to Flag Telecom's FALCON cable near the Egyptian port of Alexand...
2007 turned out to be "one of the most remarkable years in the history of malware," according to the recently released "ESET Global Threat Report 2007." The movement of new digital devices, social networking channels, operating systems and platforms into the mainstream is providing malware creators ...
Managers of enterprise networks are becoming more aware of the importance of IT risk management issues even though they still cling to four so-called myths that give a false sense of security, according to Symantec. The security vendor on Wednesday released its IT Risk Management Report Volume II, w...
Study after study continues to reveal a fundamental truth about the shifting landscape of IT security today: The biggest threat to proprietary systems and information is not the traditional cyber-criminal writing malicious code in a virtual location, but rather trusted employees. Savvy administrator...
One year after a proof-of-concept hack for pharming wireless routers hit the Internet, network security company Symantec issued a warning that more attacks are on the way. The new attack -- which targets wireless routers -- is similar to other pharming hacks in that it reroutes the domain name syste...
McAfee announced Monday a security suite that provides enterprise users with host data loss prevention, device management and endpoint encryption to ensure compliance and limit exposure to fines. McAfee Total Protection for Data, a solution for data loss and data leakage protection, has full visibil...
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