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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 22 Flaws
Microsoft released 13 security bulletins addressing 22 unique vulnerabilities for its August Patch Tuesday update. Of the 13 bulletins, two were rated as "critical," nine as "important" and two as "moderate," Microsoft said Aug. 9 in its Patch Tuesday notification announcement. The patches addressed bugs in both desktop and server versions of Microsoft Windows, Office,…
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How Washington is Impacting Small Business and IT
Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the technology and IT sectors have an important role to play in getting the economy back on track — assuming they are able to play in it. SMBs compete directly with larger and more highly capitalized companies by using the Internet to level the playing field. All you…
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Seagate Hard Drives Feature SafetyNet Data-Recovery Services
Seagate unveiled the GoFlex Turbo performance drive with SafetyNet DRS (data-recovery services), the first recovery service offering by a hard-drive manufacturer to be included as part of the purchase price of an external drive. With a USB 3.0 interface and rpms clocked at 7,200, the GoFlex Turbo drive is equipped to handle transfer speeds up…
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Worried IT Professionals Pose Risk to Data
Worried IT Professionals Pose Risk to Data Nearly 40 percent of IT professionals believe that senior management doesn’t really know or understand how much data information professionals can access within their organizations. No Title Over 78 percent of respondents reported that they’d be able to take sensitive information with them if they lost their jobs.…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday to Fix 22 Flaws
Microsoft plans to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio as part of the August Patch Tuesday release. Microsoft will release 13 security bulletins, two of which are rated "critical," the company said Aug. 4. Nine were rated as "important" and the final two were listed as "moderate" according to the…
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Mobile Security Threat Rising: Report
Lookout Mobile Security, a provider of mobile security, announced the results of its Mobile Threat Report, based on threat data from its Mobile Threat Network, which includes data collected from more than 700,000 apps and 10 million devices worldwide. The report found that mobile malware has increased significantly, with Android users two-and-a-half times as likely…
