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Small Business IT Security Attacks Raising Awareness
Small Business IT Security Attacks Raising Awareness SMBs spend an average of $51,000 per year on security and data protection solutions. No Title Two-thirds of SMB IT staff time is dedicated to computer security, disaster preparedness, backup, recovery and archiving. No Title 87 percent of SMBs have a disaster preparedness plan. No Title Only 23…
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Employees Using Unsafe Applications at Work, Survey Finds
A worldwide survey of 512 IT professionals conducted on behalf of Cisco by InsightExpress found employees are consistently working around information technology security policies to use unsupported devices and applications and more than half of survey respondents determined that their employees use unsupported applications. More than half (51 percent) listed social networking as one of…
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Tracing Digital Fingerprints in Malware
In a presentation at July’s Black Hat security conference, HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund will talk about how to use what he calls the development fingerprints in malware to track down attackers. Just as criminals can leave fingerprints in the physical world, malware authors can leave fingerprints on their products in the digital world. In a…
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Google Android Apps Highly Vulnerable to Viruses, Report Finds
For the first time since its inception, Android based smartphones outsold iPhones in the first part of 2010. Consumers who purchase these smartphones are downloading millions of Android-based applications, and, according to a SMobile Systems analysis of the Android market, putting their personal and professional data at risk. SMobile’s Global Threat Center discovered 20 percent…
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CIOs to Slow Down Spending on IT Security
CIOs to Slow Down Spending on IT Security Gartner recommends that more mature organizations can safely reduce security spending by 3 to 6 percent of their overall IT budgets through 2011. No Title Last year security spending made up an average of 6 percent of IT spending. No Title Gartner expects security to make up…
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IT Security Vendor SonicWall Gets Higher Offer on Company Takeover
BANGALORE June 22 (Reuters) – IT security company SonicWall Inc (NASDAQ:SNWL) said in a filing it had been approached by a privately held company to be acquired for $12 a share, trumping an earlier offer from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Earlier this month, the New York-based private equity firm had offered to acquire the…
