Children on social networks unaware of privacy risks

Children on social networks unaware of privacy risks


Children on social networks unaware of privacy risks

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:28 AM PDT

77% of 13-16 year olds and 38% of 9-12 year olds in the EU have a profile on a social networking site, according to a pan-European survey carried out for the European Commission. Yet, a quarter of chi...

HBGary does some reputation building

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:00 AM PDT

A little over two months have passed from the HBGary breach, and the unfortunate incident seemed to have somewhat faded from public consciousness, supplanted by the slew of other high-profile breaches...

Gaping security hole in Skype for Android

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:10 AM PDT

The Skype application for Android contains a flaw that allows a rogue app to access and harvest users' personal information and things like chat logs from the device without needing root access or spe...

Rise in ZIP file attachments in spam emails lead to Bredolab malware

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:52 AM PDT

On the 16th of March Rustock, the largest of the spamming botnets, was taken down. As you would expect, global spam levels started to drop, as can be seen when you look at the number of mails being de...

Secure access to cloud services from iPad and Android devices

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT

AEP Networks has bridged the gap between consumer tablet devices and sensitive corporate data by delivering a secure solution that allows users to connect to cloud services and run corporate applicati...

Sourcefire expands IPS solutions portfolio

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:33 AM PDT

Sourcefire has expanded its IPS solutions portfolio on three fronts with:Sourcefire IPSxTM – A streamlined, easy-to-manage IPSSourcefire 4.10 software release – Enhanced awareness and 3rd party intero...

Review: IPv6 for Enterprise Networks

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 06:00 AM PDT

Authors: Shannon McFarland, Muninder Sambi, Nikhil Sharma and Sanjay Hooda. Pages: 400 Publisher: Cisco Press ISBN: 1587142279 Introduction The February news that the last batch of IPv4 a...

SANS to teach VoIP security in Europe

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:53 AM PDT

The SANS Institute will be teaching the first European session of its new Security 540: VoIP Security course at the upcoming SANS Secure Europe event in Amsterdam this May. The 6-day course which debu...

Virtual solution to secure and audit VM-to-VM communications

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:42 AM PDT

PacketMotion released the PacketSentry Virtual Probe, which monitors and secures access to sensitive data in VMware clusters by delivering PacketSentry's application and identity-aware solution as a g...

Security fears still an obstacle to cloud adoption

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:59 AM PDT

Over three fifths (62 per cent) of IT managers state concerns about security as an obstacle to cloud adoption, according to Kaspersky Lab. The research found that among the IT managers and directors s...

Final report: Pan-European cyber security exercise

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:35 AM PDT

The EU's cyber security agency, ENISA, has issued its final report on the first Pan-European cyber security exercise for public bodies, Cyber Europe 2010. The report underlines the need for more cy...

Week in review: Wordpress and Barracuda breaches, "free shopping" exploits, Koobface leaving Facebook

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 09:03 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: "Official Profile Viewer Application" Facebook scam After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Fac...

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