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Businesses are constantly looking for exploitable holes in their security systems to protect themselves from hackers. But while your focus may currently be on the security of your employees’ laptops and smartphones, it appears that the very heart of your corporation could have been left wide open.
Boston based Rapid7 is a security company that specializes [...]

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A new study seems to confirm the worst in people, revealing that people who found a lost smartphone violated the loser’s privacy a whopping 89 percent of the time. And they weren’t just seeking a phone number or email address: On nearly half of those phones, the finder attempted to access the owner’s online banking [...]

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Electronic medical records (EMRs) are safer than their paper counterparts, according to a new survey of physicians—but a similar survey of patients didn’t get the same response. They think paper is still safer, which means some education is in order.
The survey, which was conducted by GfK Roper on behalf of Practice Fusion, asked patients and [...]

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Security experts are predicting a rise in the use of personal gadgets to access company data – which means that you will have less control over what kind of data goes in and out of your IT system. The best way to rectify this is by having a concrete and comprehensive IT policy that secures [...]

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A survey by StaySafeOnline.org shows some disturbing results – that a large number of small business, while largely dependent on their computer systems, do not see themselves as threatened by hackers and online thieves. This results in a significant percentage of them having poor or mediocre security.
StaySafeOnline.org, a website of the National Cyber Security Alliance, [...]

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Not every ad you are served by Google is good for you, warns Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier, after he spotted a suspicious looking ad for a free Flash Video player in his Google Reader.
By clicking on the link he was taken to the download page of the player, which repeats many times over that the offered [...]

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As the worldwide use of Facebook continues to grow, more and more scams are appearing on the popular social networking website. Using promos, “interesting” links and all other sorts of strategies to trap you, a grain of salt is always needed when dealing with things outside of what Facebook offers.
As more and more people continue [...]

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As mobile marketers latch onto the convenience and cool-factor of QR codes, hackers are starting to take advantage of these square, scannable bar codes as a new way to distribute malware. Like all mobile attack vectors, it is a new frontier that security researchers say is not extremely prevalent, but which has a lot of [...]

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With more and more businesses using online banking for its convenience and ease, more and more hackers and cyber-thieves are also making it their mission to infiltrate and manipulate these transactions for their benefit. More than ever, it is important for businesses to ensure that they have the proper security protocols in place to prevent [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
UPDATED Tuesday Dec. 20 8:45 a.m. ET:  The first instances of Kim Jong Il malware have been confirmed, as spam emails purporting to be about Kim’s death have begun to appear, according to Trend Micro. The subject lines may vary, but the emails have PDFs or Word documents attached, which of course hide malicious [...]

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