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Hacking Threat Faces Mobile Phone Users, Experts Say
(Reuters) – Accessing your bank account using your mobile phone might seem safe, but security experts say would-be hackers can access confidential information via a simple text message seemingly from your service provider. People in the industry aware of the risk see it as extremely small, as only a few people use handsets to access…
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Fed Video on Cybersecurity States the Obvious
President Obama didn’t announce the next cybersecurity czar, as speculated he would last Friday. However, the White House did unveil the ineptly named "Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure." Accompanying the report was this video highlighting the need for better, coordinated government and private sector efforts to protect the…
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Data Discovery Features Make DLP Smarter
Data loss prevention (DLP) or, as it was originally called “data leak prevention,” has been more of a promise than a reality. Many of the products on the shelf today are designed as the data equivalents of antivirus pattern matching to detect the emailing or streaming of common data sets, such as Social Security and…
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President Obama to Appoint Cybersecurity Czar
President Barrack Obama is expected to march out on the Rose Garden lawn Friday morning and proclaim the next cybersecurity czar—the man or woman who will coordinate and lead the defense of the U.S. critical digital infrastructure. Some people will argue that the need for this post has never been greater. Many IT security vendors…
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EMC, Symantec on Collision Course in Systems Management
Storage giant EMC is taking a step closer to becoming more of a systems management company–and on a collision course with Symantec–through the acquisition of configuration management software company Configuresoft. Configuresoft, a pioneer in security and network device configuration management and change control applications, will become a part of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group once…
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Apple’s iPhone, Mac Seeing Higher Sales to Business
Apple has never been known for its strong reseller channel partner program or its efforts to woo the channel with discounts and back-end rebates. But over the years as Apple’s Mac platform has made inroads into small businesses and workgroups within larger enterprises, the channel has come along for the ride, with or without Apple’s support.…