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Experts highlight top data breach vulnerabilities
22.05.2013
Hidden vulnerabilities lie in everyday activities that can expose personal information and lead to data breach, including buying gas with a credit card or wearing a pacemaker.
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Free tool repairs critical Windows configuration vulnerabilities
22.05.2013
Tripwire announced SecureCheq, a free configuration utility that helps evaluate and repair the most common, critical configuration vulnerabilities in Windows desktops and servers.
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A look into the EC Council hack
17.05.2013
Update: Wednesday, 22 May 2013 - Tal Be'ery: “We had analyzed a screenshot of what we had thought at the time the current EC council site hack.
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IE8 0-day used in watering hole attacks
06.05.2013
Last week a U.S. Department of Labor website was discovered to be redirecting users to sites serving a hard-to-detect variant Poison Ivy backdoor Trojan.
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Top Android AV software fooled by common evasion techniques
03.05.2013
A team of researchers from Northwestern University and North Carolina State University have tested ten of the most popular Android anti-virus software and have discovered that all of them can be fooled by common code obfuscation techniques.
Spotlight

A closer look at Mega cloud storage
Posted on 21 May 2013. | Once a novelty, nowadays many cloud storage services are fighting for their piece of the market in the virtual world. Mega offers 50GB of free space with great pricing on Pro accounts.

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.

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.

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.
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