I’d like to imagine that if I were a fish I would be smart enough to avoid the worm dangling from a hook attacked to a string that goes up out of the water, but maybe not. A worm wriggling […]
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Every three months or so there seems to be a new mobile malware survey or threat report citing the dramatic rise in mobile malware in circulation. Every single mobile malware report I’ve seen has indicated that somewhere between 95 and
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Data is the lifeblood of business. That is why organizations understand the importance of backing data up regularly to protect it from being irrevocably lost. According to Gartner, though, a third of all businesses will replace their backup and recovery
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One thing seems to be more apparent with each major data breach that makes the headlines: nobody is going to look out for your identity and sensitive information as closely as you will (or at least should). A lending firm
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It’s easy to be jaded and cynical these days when it comes to data breaches, and protecting your identity and sensitive financial information. Target, Home Depot, UPS, and Dairy Queen are just four of the more high-profile data breaches in
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While the entire world was focused on the Apple media event today, and the unveiling of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch, it also happened to be the second Tuesday of the month, which makes it
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Juniper Networks announced a number of new and enhanced capabilities for its Spotlight Secure platform. The most intriguing news, though, is that Juniper is expanding to allow organizations to integrate threat intelligence data from multiple sources, and consolidate and manage
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Financial institutions aren’t really all that different than Vegas casinos. From the perspective of an average customer, the bank exists to provide a service–someplace to store money, process credit or debit card transactions, and maybe earn half a percent of
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Blue Coat recently analyzed 660 million unique hostnames over a 90-day period, and found that more than 70 percent of the domains existed for less than a day. Cyber criminals use these short-lived domains–dubbed “One Day Wonders” by Blue Coat
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There are reports that JPMorgan Chase and a number of other US financial institutions have been breached at a very deep level. The attack is more concerning than most because it seems the hackers were able to steal checking and
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