Latest news
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10 best practices for securing data in Hadoop
05.04.2013
Dataguise released ten security best practices for organizations considering or implementing Hadoop.
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The War Z taken offline following forum, database hack
03.04.2013
Players of The War Z, a first-person zombie survival game, have been notified of a breach of the developer's (Hammerpoint Interactive) forum and game databases and the theft of user data contained in them.
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Dataguise enhances DG for Hadoop with selective encryption
03.04.2013
Dataguise announced DG for Hadoop 4.3, which provides both masking and selective encryption for sensitive data in major Hadoop distributions.
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Database security is too complex to implement
14.03.2013
A recent GreenSQL survey of IT professionals worldwide concluded that 31.4% of security professionals believe that database security implementation is too complex, making it their number one obstacle.
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Juniper adds global attacker intelligence service to its products
28.02.2013
At RSA Conference 2013, Juniper Networks unveiled its next-generation security products for protecting data center environments, fortified by the Junos Spotlight Secure global attacker intelligence service.
Spotlight

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.

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.

Internet Explorer best at blocking malware
Posted on 14 May 2013. | While Chrome’s malware download protection improved significantly, Internet Explorer 10 continues to outperform the other browsers with a block rate of 99.96%.

Researcher refuses to help Saudi telco to spy on people
Posted on 14 May 2013. | You would think that a Saudi Arabian telecom firm interested in monitoring its users' mobile communications would not be asking a well-known pro-privacy researcher for help, but you would be wrong.

Malicious browser extensions are hijacking Facebook accounts
Posted on 13 May 2013. | Facebook users - especially those in Brazil - are being targeted with malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles, warns Microsoft.
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