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McAfee Launches New Cloud Security Platform for Business Data
McAfee is launching a new security platform designed to protect content and data traffic as businesses and IT departments move from physical to cloud computing infrastructures. These new security tools also come as the IT industry is digesting how secure the cloud after two notable failures at Sony and Amazon. The McAfee Cloud Security Platform…
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IT Specialists at Risk Transmitting Unsecure Mobile Data: Report
A study by Origin Storage, a secure storage specialist, has revealed that 41 percent of what should be a security-savvy audience are carrying sensitive information on mobile devices unprotected. In fact, 19 percent revealed that their organization had suffered a data breach following the loss of a portable device (i.e., laptop, USB, CD) with 54…
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Nexsan E-Series Storage Platform Offers 3TB SATA Drive Compatibility
Disk-based storage systems specialist Nexsan announced its E-Series storage systems are the first enterprise-class storage systems shipping with 3TB SATA drives, delivering capacity of 180TBs in just 4U of rack space. The E60X expansion chassis can be added to the E60 to house up to 60 more 3TB drives for a total of 360TBs in…
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Sophos Buys Unified Threat Management Firm Astaro
British security firm Sophos has acquired unified threat management provider Astaro to round out its networking security portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sophos will be able to provide complete data and threat protection for IT, regardless of device type, user location or network boundaries, Sophos said on May 6. The combined…
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Hacking Dirty Dozen Fraudsters Favorite Attack Vectors
Hacking Dirty Dozen Fraudsters Favorite Attack Vectors POS serverServersUsed in 36% of breaches No Title POS terminalUser DevicesUsed in 21% of breaches No Title Pay at the pump terminalUser Devices Used in 18% of breaches No Title Database serverServersUsed in 14% of breaches No Title Web app/serverServersUsed in 9% of breaches No Title Regular employee/end-userPeople…
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Network Anomoly Sparks Password Concerns for LastPass Users
An “anomaly” in the network traffic has prompted online password manager LastPass to notify its customers of a potential security breach that requires them to immediately change their master passwords. Administrators noticed a “network traffic anomaly” that lasted a few minutes from a “non-critical” machine on May 3, LastPass wrote on its blog on May…
