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Application layer DDoS attacks are smaller than traditional network-based attacks, which try to exceed the available bandwidth. Organizations need to handle them differently.
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As federal officials and the White House increasingly call on Congress to pass the comprehensive cyber-security bill to protect critical infrastructure, the House moves forward with its version.
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Thousands of computers still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan will not be able to access the Internet after the FBI shuts down its temporary servers March 8.
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Researchers examined the state of security in SCADA and industrial control systems and presented an ugly picture of the vulnerabilities and challenges in addressing the issues.
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Adobe wants researchers to focus on mitigation technologies that make it expensive for attackers to launch attacks, not hunting bugs.
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VeriSign didn't disclose that it had been successfully attacked several times in 2010 because the security team didn't tell management about the incidents until recently.
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Attackers targeted executives in the defense industry and government officials with fake invitations to conferences to install the MSUpdater Trojan to steal sensitive data.
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The threat of cyber-war and cyber-attacks is serious enough that countries need to beef up their defenses as part of their military strategy.
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Increasing demand for mobile computing capabilities is forcing IT executives to fret about everything from device support and application development strategies to a whole new set of security concerns, with huge rewards awaiting those who tackle these issues most effectively.
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McAfee's latest Mobile Security 2.0 enables remote data wipes, tracking and locks, as well as the ability to tell when applications are accessing personal data.
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Fifteen companies including PayPal, Google, Microsoft and Facebook are banding together to fight domain-based phishing and other email scams with the new DMARC specification.
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Google is under fire in Congress for its new privacy policy changes to unify user information from 60 Web services under one single policy.
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When it comes to preventing increasingly sophisticated and malicious attacks to your corporate network and its data, simply slapping on a few security appliances and scanning for spam isn't enough. Hackers act fast and are changing tactics. Even more can be gained by taking the time to analyze the data that your tools can give you about the attacks your enterprise is thwarting – or the malware that makes its way through. Analysis can give CIOs and IT managers value information about what's working and what's not when it comes to security. In the Cisco 4Q11 Global Threat Report, the company has rounded up information gathered by its security products to create a picture of the state of cyber-security between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2011. The report finds that while spam volume continues to decline, malware attacks are becoming more frequent; in fact, "33% of Web malware encountered was zero-day malware not detectable by traditional signature-based methodologies at the time of encounter," Cisco said. "Most importantly, regular review and understanding of the data can help uncover the elusive “black swan”—the types of surreptitious and malicious events that otherwise could fly below the radar." Here are the report's key findings.
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The unveiled rules for the EU's data privacy law revamp includes 24-hour breach notification, appointing a data protection officer and required user consent for online data access.
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While there is no silver bullet to prevent all attacks, Symantec's latest survey proves that following best practices is a better defense than skimping on the protections.
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