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• Microsoft decrypts Skype comms to detect malicious links

  23.05.2013

  The issue addresses last week by The H and their associates at heise Security of whether or not Microsoft checks links contained in encrypted Skype chat sessions and their claim that it did has raised quite a few questions.

• Is Microsoft reading your Skype communications?

  15.05.2013

  The question of whether Skype - a Microsoft subsidiary since May 2011 - allows U.S.

• Microsoft fixes 33 vulnerabilities

  14.05.2013

  Today for Patch Tuesday, Microsoft and Adobe are both coming out with critical fixes for a number of widely installed and attacked programs.

• Internet Explorer best at blocking malware

  14.05.2013

  NSS Labs released the results and analysis from its web browser security comparative evaluating the protection offered by five browsers - Safari 5, Chrome 25/26, Internet Explorer 10, Firefox 19 and Opera 12 - against malware downloads (also known as socially engineered malware).

• Hijacking Facebook accounts via expired Hotmail accounts

  10.05.2013

  Three researchers from Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, have discovered a simple way to hijack Facebook accounts by just by misusing existing features and responses of Facebook, Microsoft's Hotmail web-based email service and its Windows Live Messenger.

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Review: Logging and Log Management

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Experts highlight top data breach vulnerabilities

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A closer look at Mega cloud storage

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The CSO perspective on healthcare security and compliance

Posted on 20 May 2013.  |  Randall Gamby is the CSO of the Medicaid Information Service Center of New York. In this interview he discusses healthcare security and compliance challenges and offers a variety of tips.

Cyber espionage campaign uses professionally-made malware

Posted on 20 May 2013.  |  A massive cyber espionage campaign has been hitting government ministries, IT companies, academic research institutions, and more.