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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…
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10 Reasons Why VARs Should Love Content Security
10 Reasons Why VARs Should Love Content Security About 23 percent of SMBs have been compromised by employees who accessed personal webmail accounts, according to a survey conducted by Webroot. No Title Webroot also found that about 24 percent of SMBs had been compromised by employees using social networking sites. No Title According to Barracuda…
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System Crashes After 600,000 iPhone 4 Preorders
Apple became a victim of its own success June 15, when an unexpected 600,000 pre-orders for its iPhone 4 managed to crash both its and AT&T’s ordering systems. AT&T continues to be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the United States. Apple and AT&T found themselves hit by unexpected demand for the iPhone 4,…
