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Can IT Be Trusted With Personal Devices?
Mobile device management as a path to security is a fundamentally flawed strategy. You must manage the data.
Has Anonymous Ruined Online Anonymity?
Anonymous, the hacktivist collective, has given anonymity a bad name. Yes, anonymous online services may be used to send bomb threats or abusive...
Google Wardriving: How Engineering Trumped Privacy
Blame the Street View data collection practices on a "more is more" engineering mindset. And rethink your notions about privacy for unencrypted...
After Flashback, Apple Walled Gardens Won't Help
Apple and other vendors will use the Flashback botnet as reason to move forward with desktop walled garden restrictions. Here's why that approach...
Mac Trojan Fallout: Apple Security Glory Days Gone?
Apple's reputation as an unattractive target for malware writers changed when the Flashback trojan hit more than 600,000 Macs. But Windows...
Anonymous Vs. DNS System: Lessons For Enterprise IT
A rumored attack on the world's DNS servers by Anonymous failed to materialize. But the many enterprises still ignoring persistent weaknesses...
Girls Around Me App: Not Today's Creepiest Stalker
Was the Girls Around Me app tasteless and juvenile? Of course. But we should be far more concerned about being stalked by law enforcement agencies...
Security Practices From The Front Lines
In the age of LulzSec, industrial espionage, and everyday breaches, it's more important than ever to be proactive about security. These security...
Google Big Tent: Regulation Vs. Personal Responsibility
Society should embrace the touch-the-stove approach when it comes to online common sense, explains 14-year-old Adora Svitak, author of no less...
Facebook Password Debate Stirs Deep Social Fears
Recent controversy over prospective employers requesting Facebook credentials has dredged up some big social questions.
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Forensic Tool Grabs iPhone, iPad Data Remotely
May 17, 2012Commercial forensic software from ElcomSoft lets investigators download someone's iPhone or iPad data without physically accessing the device;...
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Google Drive Privacy: 4 Misunderstood Facts
April 27, 2012Privacy and security questions have bedeviled the launch of Google's new online file-storage service. Ignore the hype and consider these four key...
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2 Healthcare Data Breaches Show Importance Of Encryption
April 05, 2012Patient data from Howard University Hospital and California Department of Child Support Services wasn't fully encrypted, and one security expert...
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Internet Crime Focus Of Black Hat Europe
March 14, 2012Security and cryptography experts at Amsterdam conference consider the enormity of securing a world where everything--from smartphones to power...
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Sony Suffers Michael Jackson Song Hack Attack
March 05, 2012Attackers last year reportedly stole 50,000 files, including music from Jackson and numerous Sony recording artists.
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Megaupload Hosting Provider Seeks Out Data Owners
February 02, 2012No promises, but MegaRetrieval campaign tries to reunite legitimate Megaupload users with their data.
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Megaupload: What's Next for Founders, Users?
January 27, 2012Justice Department tells Megaupload's customers they shouldn't expect to get their files back.
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Rocstor's Ultra Secure SmartCard-Based Portable Hard Drive
January 11, 2012
At CES 2012, Rocstor displayed a prototype of its Amphibious -- a highly secure portable hard drive that connects via Firewire 800 or USB and that...
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Diebold Virtualizes ATMs To Secure Banking Data
January 04, 2012Diebold seeks to close vulnerabilities by moving customer data off physical machines onto virtualized ATMs on protected data center servers.
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Whose Job Is Virtualization Security?
November 21, 2011The adage "When everyone's in charge, no one's in charge" applies all too well to private cloudified networks.
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