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Melding search and security
A few weeks ago, the otherwise-conservative security firm McAfee shocked many by paying $70 million for a startup, SiteAdvisor, that was less than a year old, had barely 15 employees, and a product that had been in the market for only about four months.
What made SiteAdvisor so valuable was its idea: the company scanned the links thrown up by search engines like Google and Yahoo, checked them for malware, and marked out the ones that could be dangerous. SiteAdvisor then displayed the safety ratings right next to each search result in real time (see McAfee Buys SiteAdvisor).
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Ransomware adds password stealing to its arsenal
Posted on 17 May 2013. | Microsoft researchers are warning about a new variant of the well-known Reveton ransomware doing rounds.
Application vulnerabilities still a top security concern
Posted on 16 May 2013. | Respondents to a new (ISC)2 study identified application vulnerabilities as their top security concern. A significant gap persists between software developers’ priorities and security professionals’ concerns.
IT security jobs: What's in demand and how to meet it
Posted on 15 May 2013. | Let's say you want a career in information security, where do you start? What credentials do you need? What are employers looking for? Read on to find some answers.
Hacking charge stations for electric cars
Posted on 15 May 2013. | Ofer Shezaf talks about what charge stations really are, why they have to be ‘smart’ and the potential risks created to the grid, to the car and most importantly to its owner’s privacy and safety.
Is Microsoft is reading your Skype communications?
Posted on 15 May 2013. | The question of whether Skype allows U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to access the communications exchanged by its users has still not been adequately answered by Microsoft.
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