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Women did well on Defcon social engineering test

Lionel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:10:00 +0000

Contestants in the Defcon hacking contest were successful in getting most firms to divulge information that is not supposed to be revealed to strangers. How corporate IT departments are vulnerable to social engineering
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Security-as-a-service is growing

Lionel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:18:00 +0000

IT managers may think they do not use software as a service or cloud computing when in fact they outsource their e-mail, anti-spam and anti-virus services. Find out why messaging security is suited for the cloud and why intrusion prevention and firewall functions should happen outside the gateway
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Cisco patches bug that crashed part Internet

Lionel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:13:00 +0000

A Duke University experiment inadvertently uncovered a bug in Cisco Systems Inc.’s Internetwork Operating System XR, which is used on carrier grade routers such as CRS 1. A Renesys Corp. official said it affected 3,500 prefixes and caused some Cisco routers to corrupting Duke’s experimental data
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RIM clarifies three misperceptions about BlackBerry

Lionel — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:12:00 +0000

RIM proposes establishing an industry forum to work with Government of India on encryption issues and stresses the need to ‘unequivocally clarify’ three misperceptions, in a statement Thursday. But RIM isn’t clarifying the difference between BES, BBM and BIS, says one analyst
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Intel’s McAfee purchase: Daring, desperate or doomed?

Lionel — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:47:00 +0000

Intel’s shocking purchase of security giant McAfee received mixed reactions from the blogging community. One blogger is excited at the prospects of antivirus-on-a-chip, while another says Intel should stick to its core competency
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Intel to acquire McAfee for US$7.7 billion

Lionel — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:48:00 +0000

The world’s largest chipmaker announces a surprise deal that will see the security giant become a subsidiary of its Software and Services Group
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Changes to PCI data security standard raises questions

Lionel — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:01:06 +0000

The new standard appears to leave largely untouched several issues where companies are looking for more guidance from the PCI Council, say industry analysts.
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‘Dangerous’ iPhone exploit code goes public

Lionel — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:20:00 +0000

The maker of a 10-day-old jailbreak exploit released code that others could put to use hijacking iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads. It’s an impressive piece of work, says one expert
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Saudi deal won’t affect Canadian BlackBerry users

Lionel — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:50:00 +0000

BlackBerry users in north America shouldn’t worry about RIM’s negotiations with countries like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, India and Lebanon affecting the security of their devices, analysts say. RIM’s statement says the enterprise solution remains unchanged
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Smartphone wave challenges enterprise security

Lionel — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:24:00 +0000

It’s a devil’s bargain, says one industry analyst of user demands for devices mainly aimed at consumers, and there isn’t one solution
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