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Article | 15/02/2011 Startup protects sensitive cloud data without breaking apps
CipherCloud, a startup launching this week at the RSA Conference, protects sensitive data being transferred on the Web without breaking the applicatio...
Article | 9/02/2011 Android Market's instant app download a security threat, Sophos says
Android Market's instant-download feature for applications that customers buy has a flaw: It could open up Android devices to malicious downloads from...
Article | 9/02/2011 Check Point expands security blade platform
Check Point is introducing four applications for its a la carte security platform that allows customers to create tailored security appliances on off-...
Article | 8/02/2011 Security researcher feels the wrath of Anonymous
Wikileaks defenders Anonymous are firing both barrels at a security researcher who promised to name people in the group. Aaron Barr vowed he’d expose ...
Article | 5/02/2011 Financial firm fined $25M for hiding software glitch that cost investors $217M
An investment fund that hid flaws in a computer application that set the fund's strategy for making trades has agreed to pay a <a href="http://www.sec...
Article | 5/02/2011 Hacker steals 400 billion virtual poker chips from Facebook game
An English hacker has admitted he stole 400 billion virtual poker chips worth somewhere between $US285,000 and $12 million in actual dollars from a po...
Article | 3/02/2011 Cloud services could bolster national cyber security
The shift to cloud computing offers an opportunity to better secure the national digital infrastructure by concentrating the burden of cyber security ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Kaspersky vows anti-virus products are safe despite source-code theft
Kasperesky Lab says the anti-virus source code that one of its employees stole three years ago and distributed online cannot harm customers of the com...
Article | 26/01/2011 Low-cost SSL proxy could bring cheaper, faster security; defeat threats like Firesheep
Researchers have found a cheaper, faster way to process SSL/TLS with off-the-shelf hardware, a development that could let more Web sites shut down cyb...
Article | 27/01/2011 Security start-up offers free, cloud-based firewall, server-vulnerability services
Security start-up CloudPassage is offering two free services to protect cloud-based virtual servers by maintaining firewall policies and also checking...
Article | 25/01/2011 Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed
A Web hack that can endanger online banking transactions is ranked the No. 1 new Web hacking technique for 2010 in a top 10 list selected by a panel o...
Article | 20/01/2011 Public cloud services can provide useful tools for criminals
Buying public cloud services passwords as demonstrated this week at the Black Hat D.C. conference is not the only malicious use these computational an...
Article | 19/01/2011 Library system dumps MPLS with cheaper DSL, cable services
The Sno-Isle, Wash., public library system expects to save $400,000 this year by yanking its MPLS network and replacing it with multiple, less expensi...
Article | 19/01/2011 Feds charge professed White Hat hackers in breach of AT&T iPad customer data
Professed White Hat hackers face federal criminal charges for grabbing the e-mail addresses of 114,000 AT&T 3G customers who use iPads.
Article | 12/01/2011 Court papers name Akamai tipster in insider-trading investigation
Federal court papers name a former <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/091610-akamai-ipv6.html">Akamai Technologies</a> employee who allege...

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