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A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats It’s been a while since we’ve talked about banking security, but it appears new banking malware is making the rounds. IBM’s X-Force team discovered the banking Trojan, which is primarily targeting the Japanese financial market. It has been named Shifu – the Japanese word for thief – […]

Wearable devices aren’t quite as ubiquitous as smartphones – at least not yet. IDC predicts that the wearables market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 45 percent between now and 2019. Fitness bands are the most popular wearables at the moment, but smart watches and other technologies are expected to increase over […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats The number of data breaches in the first half of 2015 has jumped 10 percent over the same time period last year, according to a new report from Gemalto. Yet, the number of records that have been compromised is down by 41 percent. It seems like these […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats When I got an email asking if I was interested in learning more about the shadiest neighborhoods on the Web, I had to say yes. Part of that was my own curiosity – there are so many new domains that I have wondered how safe they all […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats DDoS attacks have been a headache for IT and security professionals for a long time, and we can expect them to get worse. Recent reports show just how much they are increasing and, perhaps more disturbing, that we’re still struggling to understand them or prevent them. According […]

Data Loss Prevention: 5 Reasons You Need to Step Up Your Game Shadow IT is happening in your company, and it is causing serious security problems.  My IT Business Edge colleague Arthur Cole reported on a recent Cisco study that found that CIOs really are in the dark when it comes to shadow IT, with […]

Top Data Leak Vulnerabilities and How to Secure Them I got an email the other day that said companies shouldn’t let security worries keep them from moving to the cloud. Ironically, the two emails directly below that particular message in my inbox were warnings about the latest security concerns within cloud computing. Now, I’ve been […]

Top Data Leak Vulnerabilities and How to Secure Them Is there anyone out there anymore who thinks passwords are a good security option? After the newest survey from LaunchKey, I’m going to say the answer is a very firm, “No!” The survey of 589 people of the “general population” found that 84 percent of participants […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job If you think about it, many of the security incidents that companies deal with are a direct result of human behavior. Take phishing emails, for instance. You can put in all kinds of perimeter protection like firewalls, but that only does so much. Those who use phishing […]

5 Ways HTTP Protocol Can Address Emerging Cloud Threats I don’t think I’m off base saying this, but in our current Internet security culture, it seems like threats and other issues are taken seriously only when top management begins to recognize the problem. And as we know, C-level executives are almost always the last ones […]

5 Components of an Enterprise Print Security Strategy In theory, creating privileged access accounts to the most critical areas of your company’s network is supposed to add a layer of security to sensitive data or infrastructure. However, these accounts are difficult to completely lock down and thus could be a data vulnerability for many enterprises, […]

Data Loss Prevention: 5 Reasons You Need to Step Up Your Game Have you thought about where your data is at greatest risk? If you haven’t, you should, because where that risk lies may surprise you. Bromium, a global enterprise security company, asked Black Hat attendees about the state of security, querying them about security […]