With the Christmas and New Year holidays looming, Courion Corporation, the access governance and compliance specialist, has released `five golden rules’ – a set of best-practice-based guidelines for companies looking to reduce the security risk posed b…
WatchGuard offers managed services package for channel partners
Unified threat management vendor WatchGuard Technologies has enhanced its managed security offering with its Managed Security Services Program (MSSP).
Identity thief gets nine years
An identity thief who used victims’ credentials to register credit cards fraudulently was sentenced to more than nine years in prison wihout parole late last week.
CA identifies fakeware, search engines and social networks as major information security threats of 2009
In its year-end report on the state of IT security, Computer Associates (CA) has noted that fake security software (fakeware), poisoned search engine results and social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook and Myspace, were the major information sec…
UK SMEs not ready for snow fall
Many small businesses in the UK are not ready for the current snow fall, according to remote access provider LogMeIn of Massachusetts, USA.
‘Iranian Cyber Army’ hacks Twitter
A hacker group called ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ hacked Twitter for an hour early on 18 December, redirecting users to a website containing a green flag and Arabic writing.
Businesses migrate to virtualised security appliances
A study from IDC Research shows that virtualised security appliances (VSAs) are becoming more and more popular amongst a growing number of companies.
Adobe admits to another PDF security vulnerability
Adobe has announced its latest zero-day security vulnerability in what has become a litany of such flaws this year – and this one won’t be patched until halfway through January.
US military drones video feeds hacked by Iraqi terrorists
The US military is reported to be in quiet uproar after it emerged that Iraqi terrorists have hacked and monitored the video feeds from Predators, pilotless aircraft used for unmanned surveillance.
AppGate and Signify team up on cloud-based two-factor authentication
AppGate and Signify have announced they are able to offer clients unified secure access to protected information with strong, cloud-based, two-factor authentication.