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IT departments and their parent organizations must make significant decisions on letting employees download and use outside applications. This is a tricky situation: While many of these apps bring value to the business, they are real security risks.
Processor offers some good insight into this vexing issue. The first step – as it invariably is when […]

It may be temporary, but it feels good.
A victory on the endless battle against spammers was notched this week when McColo, a California hosting company, was switched off by Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric, the companies that provision it.
SC Magazine says that the news was originally reported by The Washington Post’s Brian Krebs. He said […]

The year in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can be described pretty simply: Bigger, dumber and more dangerous. At least that’s the conclusion – not in those words, of course – reached by Arbor Networks in the fourth edition of its Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report.
The firm found that DDoS attacks are surpassing 40 gigabits […]

There is a truism that no form of security is unbreakable. The basic idea is that if humans devised it, humans – given enough time and enough CPUs – can defeat it.
Still, it’s an unwelcome surprise when it actually occurs. That’s the thought that had to cross many minds as the news spread that two […]

Like most scary stories, what’s happening to Express Scripts is compelling.
The company has received a letter with the names and vital information – including, in some cases, prescription information – of 75 members. The sender of the note threatens to release millions more if they are not given an undisclosed amount of money. The story […]