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Article | 14/05/2011 Cisco VoIP phones part of security weakness demo
Security firm HackLabs is expected to demonstrate at AusCERT 2011 how hackers perform VoIP attacks and identify weaknesses in Cisco and other manufact...
Article | 11/05/2011 Malware writers gunning for Google Android
Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms have been the proving ground for mobile malware over the past five years, but a new Juniper Networks re...
Article | 3/05/2011 Can a new CISO improve Sony PlayStation Network security?
Can a chief information security officer (CISO) help prevent the kind of massive data breach that occurred in the Sony PlayStation network breach last...
Article | 18/04/2011 More powerful Sourcefire IPS line sets stage for next-gen firewalls
Sourcefire Monday announced a new line of intrusion-prevention systems (IPS) that sets the foundation for the company's anticipated foray into the app...
Article | 29/04/2011 Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?
A survey of 127 of cloud computing providers suggests many regard security as being mainly their customer's problem, and indeed, see their own profici...
Article | 28/04/2011 The Sony PlayStation Network breach: An identity-theft bonanza
The massive Sony PlayStation Network data breach that exposed personal and password information -- and possibly credit cards -- of an estimated 77 mil...
Article | 27/04/2011 Corporate security threats many times come from customers, business partners
While a company can do everything possible for its own network security, in the age of e-commerce and online banking that's not enough.
Article | 14/04/2011 Firewall security issue raised in report ignites vendors' ire
A test by NSS Labs that found firewalls from five vendors are subject in one way or another to remote exploit by hackers has ignited furious response ...
Article | 13/04/2011 Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls
Some of the most commonly-used firewalls are subject to a hacker exploit that lets an attacker trick a firewall and get into an internal network as a ...
Article | 6/04/2011 RSA detailing SecurID hack to customers sworn to secrecy
RSA has started providing more detail into the mid-March attack on its SecurID token-based authentication system, but to get a fuller story you have t...
Article | 5/04/2011 EMC/RSA acquires electronic threat detection firm NetWitness
EMC Corp. today announced it has acquired NetWitness Corp, a security company that makes the NextGen visibility monitoring system to detect electronic...
Article | 1/04/2011 Phishing attacks down dramatically in 2010, says IBM
The volume of phishing attacks dropped in 2010 to less than a quarter of what was seen in the previous two years, according to IBM's annual research r...
Article | 31/03/2011 Hacker group defies U.S. law, defends exposing McAfee website vulnerabilities
The hacker group that exposed holes in McAfee's website knows it's breaking U.S. law, but vows to continue exposing vulnerabilities, especially on sec...
Article | 3/03/2011 Google Android's infected apps spotlight mobile danger
The Google Android Market for apps is supposed to be an apps showplace, but the fact that Google this week yanked down about 50 Android apps it found ...
Article | 2/03/2011 IE browser losing influence as Web app traffic explodes
Microsoft Internet Explorer use is dropping and Web application traffic is surging according to one study of how employees at about 2,000 companies ma...

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