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S.C. Security Blunders Show Why States Get Hacked
Governor blames data breach on Russian hackers and the IRS, but states' by-the-book IT ethos shows rules and regulations are the real culprit.
Royal Security Fail: 'May I Speak To Kate?'
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Social Networks Continue Push For Control
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Facebook 'Privacy Notice' Has No Legs
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Petraeus Mission Impossible: Cloaking Email, Online Identities
So-called security experts making basic information security errors isn't a new occurrence. Arguably, it even led to the rise of the Anonymous...
The Petraeus Affair: Surveillance State Stopper?
Lawmakers, now reminded of their own vulnerability, need to strengthen email privacy protections. Companies need to do more to help customers...
5 Items Should Top Obama's Technology Agenda
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5 Emerging Enterprise Technologies
If you are not watching these developments, your business is missing out. Here's what Gartner's annual top 10 tech trends list missed.
Frankenstory: Attack Of The Iranian Cyber Warriors
Citing no hard evidence, U.S. government officials have been stoking fears that the Iranians are out to get us.
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Forensic Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt Containers
December 20, 2012ElcomSoft's Forensic Disk Decryptor uses PC memory dumps to crack passwords associated with BitLocker, PGP and TrueCrypt archives.
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Hackers Hold Australian Medical Records Ransom
December 11, 2012With no offline backups available, Australian medical center must choose: pay $4,200 ransom or attempt to do business without patient records.
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5 Rules For (Almost) Painless Encryption
December 10, 2012Even as mobility and cloud take off, too many companies still leave data in the clear, spooked by operational concerns. Yes, key management...
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Stolen NASA Laptop Had Unencrypted Employee Data
November 15, 2012Data breach drives NASA to now require that at minimum, all sensitive files stored on laptops be encrypted.
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Hack Exposes Most South Carolinians' Social Security Numbers
October 30, 2012State database infiltrated; 3.6 million citizens' unencrypted social security numbers are at risk.
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VA Computers Remain Unencrypted, Years After Breach
October 19, 2012Report faults IT managers for 6-year delay in adopting security measures.
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Seagate Seeks Enterprise HDD Comeback
October 16, 2012Seagate tries to recapture its lead from Western Digital, debuts three new hard disk drives with enterprise-class performance and security.
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RSA Launches Database Breach Prevention Tool
October 09, 2012Distributed Credential Protection randomizes, scrambles, and splits passwords between two servers to help block criminals or hacktivists from...
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SHA-3 Secure Hash Algorithm: New Face Of Crypto
October 03, 2012Secure hash algorithm beats 63 contenders to become NIST's next-generation cryptographic standard.
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Iran Removes Gmail Block
October 02, 2012Iranian government says it will soon introduce its own search and webmail tools. But YouTube remains indefinitely blocked.
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