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Obama wins. But so does Palin.
The election, of course, is a month away. And, just as certainly, both Barack and Palin can’t win. Where they both come out on top is in a Secure Computing study, reported upon at a Globe and Mail blog, that showed Obama was the subject of 84.4 percent of e-mail […]

It has long been accepted that the erosion of the line between consumer and professional mobile devices has important ramifications for enterprise security.
Experts have gone back and forth for some time on whether the leading consumer smartphone, the iPhone, is appropriate for business uses. Whatever the answer is to that problem, the reality is that […]

A new survey from Cisco offers interesting, but not especially shocking, results. The big takeaway from the expansive survey — it features input from 2,000 people in 10 countries — is that intentional and accidental user actions are responsible for a good share of data loss.
More specifically, 20 percent of employees changed settings to bypass […]

Two weeks ago, I posted a blog based on an Interop panel in which participants concluded that there were significant potential threats to VoIP security, but that for the most part, problems have so far been diverted.
That remains so, but crunch time might be closer than the panelists thought – or at least said. This […]

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – if only to keep an eye on ‘em.
That’s the idea behind one interesting feature of Affinion Security Center’s Identity Secure theft prevention service. The service monitors hacker marketplaces to see if a specific identity is being bought or sold. The piece says that IdentitySecure, which includes a […]