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<item><title>DRM Moves Beyond Hollywood</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:37:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Digital Rights Management technology is not uncontroversial, but it may be coming soon to your company.   -  As companies look for ways to better manage content and prevent security leaks -- not to mention outright theft-- a growing number are turning to digital rights management. Market research firm Global Industry Analysts (GIA) reports that the global market for DRM is projected to triple by 2014 and h...]]></description>
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<item><title>Security Best Practices Pay Off</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:37:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Well-prepared companies fare significantly better than their competitors when faced with IT security threats.   -  IT security concerns never go out of style. 
The recent data breach at Zappos.com in which 24 million customers had personal information stolen is just the latest in a seemingly endless series of reminders that a comprehensive and multi-layered security strategy is essential to any business.


A...]]></description>
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<item><title>Defending Your Firm Against Cyber-Attacks</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:35:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Overcoming a hacker-friendly environment.   -  
Last year brought a wave of high-profile data breaches,
including Google, Epsilon, Lockheed Martin and the International Monetary Fund.
These attacks have demonstrated that hackers can wreak havoc on a businesss
network as well as on a companys or institutions reputation. Symantecs
Internet Se...]]></description>
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<item><title>Younger Workers Pose Big Security Risks</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:57:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Young employees are known to shake things up. They expect to use the latest mobile devices, they want access to Facebook and Twitter, and they think email is for their parents. Oh, and they could post a major security threat to your enterprise, putting a serious strain on IT resources and potentially costing their employers much more than just salary and benefits. You need young talent, but some of the information about Millennials in Ciscos Annual Security Report may keep you up at night.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Secure, Compliant, and Delicious</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:07:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Improving visibility across its IT infrastructure bolstered restaurant chain Bertuccis security and compliance initiatives.   -  Restaurant chain Bertuccis moved proactively to
protect its sensitive data and ensure compliance with reporting requirements.
Senior IT Director Kevin Quinlan explains how the Northboro, Mass., company
deployed technology and processes to safeguard its data and to ensure that
Bertuccis is compli...]]></description>
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<item><title>Android`s Mobile Security Disaster </title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:20:58 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Android's profound impact on the mobile market has made it a prime target for criminals. And the operating system, which powers over half of the 60.5 million smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2011, is less safe than its rivals. Juniper Networks Malicious Mobile Threats Report shows that Android malware instances increased by 400% between 2009 and 2010, while other platforms remained relatively secure, due mainly to fewer cybercriminals trying to break through their defenses, and in some cases, to stronger security features. Things have only gotten worse this year. Juniper says Android remains a top destination for malware in the mobile space, and that Google likely wont be able to stop the bad guys before things get totally out of hand.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Dark Secrets of Hacker Forums</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:38:49 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Being a black-hat hacker can be hard, with technical complexity creating a high barrier to entry for many would-be criminals. Thus the evolution of the hacker forum, an online gathering place where aspiring crooks can communicate, train, collaborate, recruit, conduct business and interact socially. Studying these forums can provide insight into what hackers are into at the moment, how they are attacking, and how they see business trends and future activities. Imperva, an Internet and data security company, analyzed one of the largest-known hacker forums -- one with approximately 250,000 members -- to learn more about how these sites operate. See also Impervas Web Application Attack report, which indicates SQL injection accounts for one out of every four attacks online.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Fools and Their Data Are Soon Parted</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:26:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What would you give up to retrieve lost computer files? Pretty much anything, according to a survey from Wakefield Research and Carbonite Inc. People say theyd shell out big bucks or abstain from beer, wine and coffee rather than lose critical data. Yet a significant percentage of survey respondents say they dont back up these precious computer files, even though theyve experienced computer crashes and realize that data goes missing. The average user keeps more than $400 worth of digital movies and music on their devices, not to mention important information folders. “People have priceless photographs, critical personal financial information and hundreds of dollars of digital media stored on their computer,” says David Friend, CEO/chairman of Carbonite. “Most have experienced at least one major data loss disaster, yet are still not taking simple steps to protect the contents of their computer.” More than 1,000 U.S. adults took part in the research. For more about the survey, click here.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Ways To Stop Insider Security Threats</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:09:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Information security too often involves a fortress mentality, with not enough attention paid to the risks of an inside job. Yet nearly half of all data breaches can be linked to insiders, with half of those breaches involving privilege misuse. In the book, Preventing Good People from Doing Bad Things (Apress/Available now), authors John Mutch and Brian Anderson examine the clever ways that crooks gain access to corporate systems and valuable data. Many incidents are perpetrated with the cooperation of a willing inside party who may be seeking personal gain and/or revenge, but the stealthy manipulation of uninformed workers is another popular tool for hackers, who trick unsuspecting professionals into clicking malware-inviting links. The authors advocate a “least privilege” approach to ensure that enterprise users access only the information they need. Mutch and Anderson both work for BeyondTrust, a security company, where Mutch is CEO and Anderson is chief marketing officer. For more about the book, click here.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Undead Data Haunt the Enterprise</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:33:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Every device your company issues to employees will die someday, but the data on it can live forever – unless you know what to do about it. Each year companies buy millions servers, laptops, smartphones, and so on, many of them to replace machines aging out of service. Its as important to have an end-of-life process as it is to build a business case for buying hardware in the first place. &quot;From a data security point of view I think that both corporations and consumers need to appreciate some of the risk that they could be exposing themselves to with all of the wonderful new devices that we carry around with us every day,&quot; says Steve Skurnac, president of Sims Recycling Solutions, Americas (an interested party, no doubt, but hes got a point). &quot;Companies spend a lot of time on security procedures when units are in use, but what they may not realize is that when units are taken out of circulation…they need to do as much diligence with what will happen to the units when they get recycled or returned as they do when employees are using them.&quot;   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cocky Execs Missing Security Risks</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:30:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Never mind all those stories youve read over the years about costly data breaches -- senior executives around the world apparently think they're doing a bang-up job on the security front. This despite the fact that most of them admit they aren't making good use of encryption, don't have strategies for securing emerging areas of IT, aren't paying enough attention to safeguarding privacy, and aren't availing themselves of the latest security technologies. These are just a few of the findings of PricewaterhouseCoopers's 2012 Global State of Information Security Survey, which polled nearly 10,000 C-level and IT executives from 138 countries. PricewaterhouseCoopers has posted a handy tool for those who want to investigate the endless numbers in close detail; in the meantime, we've distilled it all down to a dozen IT security insights that may surprise you.   -   ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Companies Spend On Security Amid Mobile and Social Threats</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:08:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mobile devices, hackers, and social networking are the biggest security challenges facing IT departments, according to Symantec's 2011 State of Security Survey. For the second year in a row, the survey found that the perceived risk from cyberattacks is higher than off-line crime, natural disasters and terrorist attacks&amp;#151 although in reality, some key risk metrics declined this year. On behalf of Symantec, Applied Research surveyed 3,300 IT professionals in April and May 2011 at companies ranging in size from five employees to more than 5,000. Most companies said that they had been affected by cybercrime in some way during the past 12 months. &quot;Mobile computing, social media use, and the consumerization of IT are providing new challenges,&quot; said Sean Doherty, vice president and CTO of Enterprise Security at Symantec. &quot;Attackers are using more insidious, sophisticated and silent methods to steal data and wreak havoc.&quot;   -   ...]]></description>
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<item><title>How Websites Poison Your Computer</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:48:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Search engine poisoning attacks use ranking algorithms to link and direct users to websites that host malware. The attacks can be hard to trace because hackers dont require control of the servers involved in the scheme, instead relying on knowledge of vulnerable URLs. Combining HTML code injection with cross site scripting (XSS) lets hackers insert a malicious script into browsers, tricking search engines into indexing dangerous links. When users follow these links, their computers are infected with malware. This has a negative impact on a sites accessibility via search engines. Companies can prevent sites from being abused by protecting web applications against XSS.; protection from malicious references returned as search results is also a responsibility of search engines. Current solutions that warn the user of malicious sites may be enhanced by studying the footprints of a SEP via XSS, allowing more accurate and timely notifications, as well as prudent indexing. Noa Bar-Yosef is a Senior Security Strategist at Imperva.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Eight Tips for Creating Bulletproof Passwords</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:06:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Strong passwords are an important way to protect your corporate and private data from theft – and to avoid joining the more than nine million Americans victimized by identity theft each year. Eugene Buyakin, COO of Kaspersky Lab, says he used to have a &quot;throwaway&quot; password that he would use for online services that werent important, or one-time only events. However, one day he “realized that the same throwaway password was being used on junk pages as well as sites like Twitter and Facebook,” he says. &quot;A throwaway password never stays unimportant.” Darya Gudkova, head of content analysis and research for Kaspersky, also emphasizes the need for strong passwords. She recommends long passwords with a mix of different characters and letters. She also throws in several different languages to make her own passwords even tougher to crack. How do you create a bulletproof password that hackers can't crack? These tips from myID.com can help you and your employees set passwords that will keep your data stays secure.   -   ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Protecting Data Is a Shared Responsibility</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:29:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[CEOs and corporate boards can help the IT organization by articulating new security objectives as they pursue growth.   -  According to the latest “Global State of Information Security Survey” conducted by PwC, 35 percent of respondents say they dont have an overall security strategy in place. Yet, data must be protected wherever it resides; secured network walls are no longer enough.While they benefit the bottom line, ...]]></description>
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