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SECURING FINANCE AND INSURANCE ORGANISATIONS – WHY THERE’S NO SILVER BULLET

Leon Ward, Director, Product Management, Sourcefire Banks, brokerage firms, and insurance companies...

31st January, 2014

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WHAT DO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO BE VIGILANT AGAINST IDENTITY-BASED ONLINE ATTACKS?

Written by Mark Reeves, SVP International for Entrust Today, financial institutions (FIs) offering i...

30th January, 2014

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CYBER THREATS TO EXPECT IN 2014: SSL AND MOBILE API-BASED DDOS ATTACKS

In the past holiday season, revenue of online retailers in the US soared to an unprecedented 55.2 bi...

23rd January, 2014

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SECURITY – IT’S A FUNNY OLD GAME

Leon Ward, Director Product Management at Sourcefire “The analogy between sports and business is one...

18th January, 2014

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CYBER SAFETY TAKES A BACKWARD STEP, SURVEY OF AUDIT COMMITTEES SHOWS

Proportion of UK audit committee members dissatisfied with cyber information doubles Audit committee...

17th January, 2014

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ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF FOREGENIX SECURITY ESSENTIALS TO COMBAT CYBER ATTACKS IN RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS

With an unprecedented rise in security attacks in South Africa and the country ranked the third wors...

17th January, 2014

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FORESCOUT NAMES ENRIQUE SALEM, FORMER SYMANTEC CEO, TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ForeScout Technologies, a leading provider of pervasive network security solutions for Global 2000 e...

17th January, 2014

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TRUSTEER COMMENT ON JAVA-BASED MALWARE INFILTRATION

It has been reported that a group of cyber attackers, believed to have ties to the Chinese governmen...

16th January, 2014

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WHY BANKS NEED TO SHARPEN UP THEIR DDOS ATTACK PREVENTION MEASURES

With only 32% of UK businesses admitting to implementing distributed denial of service (DDoS) securi...

12th January, 2014

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HOYOS LABS INTRODUCES FREE HOYOSID™ MOBILE APP, APP LEVERAGES BIOMETRICS TO SECURE PERSONAL INFORMATION

End-to-End Biometrics Solution Will Replace Usernames, Passwords and Log-ins Although biometrics hav...

10th January, 2014

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UNITED KINGDOM RANKS HIGH FOR ‘COMPULSIVE CLICKERS’ THAT PUT COMPANIES AT RISK OF POTENTIAL CYBER ATTACK, ACCORDING TO NEW SURVEY

90% of workers in Britain cannot resist clicking on a web link, according to a survey conducted on b...

3rd January, 2014

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YEAR IN REVIEW: HOW BIGGER & FASTER DRIVES, ENCRYPTION, AND NEW MALWARE IMPACTED DATA RECOVERY IN 2013

Kroll Ontrack reveals latest trends in data recovery The continuing proliferation of new drive types...

3rd January, 2014