A data leak from the Municipal Bond Insurance Association has exposed a large amount of customer information including account numbers, balances and account holder names, according to the blog KrebsOnSecurity.
Stephen Lawson |
08 Oct |
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Box and AT&T plan to lock down cloud file-sharing with a service that places enterprise content behind an AT&T VPN.
Stephen Lawson |
05 Sep |
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a "global compact" on surveillance and the use of collected data, saying the U.S. isn't the only country that does it and American technology companies are unfairly targeted for the government's actions.
Stephen Lawson |
29 Aug |
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Gemalto plans to acquire SafeNet for US$890 million in a deal that would combine a big vendor of portable secure elements such as payment cards with a provider of enterprise data protection technology.
Stephen Lawson |
09 Aug |
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Exploit kits of cybercrime tools fell into a big slump in the first half of this year after Russian authorities nabbed the alleged creator of the popular Blackhole kit, but users aren't necessarily safer.
Stephen Lawson |
06 Aug |
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In its quest to help enterprises seek out and neutralize all threats to their Wi-Fi networks, AirMagnet is now looking to the skies.
Stephen Lawson |
22 Jul |
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Plans to favor some Internet packets over others threaten consumers' hard-won right to use encryption, a digital privacy advocate says.
Stephen Lawson |
19 Jul |
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The German government is reportedly dropping Verizon Communications as a service provider because of worries about U.S. spying.
Stephen Lawson |
27 Jun |
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Revelations about U.S. National Security Agency snooping have made some buyers outside the U.S. think twice about public clouds, placing a drag on one of the world's biggest technology trends, the head of Hewlett-Packard's enterprise group said.
Stephen Lawson |
19 Jun |
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The brake pedal in your car probably isn't attached to the brakes. But don't worry, the pedal knows how to tell the brakes that you've pressed it. And now there's a new way to secure the messages they send each other.
Stephen Lawson |
17 Jun |
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A federal judge's order on Friday could force the U.S. government to reveal more information about its widespread collection of citizens' phone records.
Stephen Lawson |
14 Jun |
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The Blackphone security-focused smartphone will go on the market in three weeks and "a few thousand" have already been sold through pre-orders, executives from the device's makers say.
Stephen Lawson |
11 Jun |
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Jeff Schilling, who joined cloud hosting startup FireHost this week as chief security officer, knows a thing or two about cybersecurity.
Stephen Lawson |
31 May |
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Allegations that the NSA installed surveillance tools in U.S.-made network equipment, if true, could mean enterprises have more to worry about than just government spying.
Stephen Lawson |
13 May |
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EMC may be in the market for security and data analytics acquisitions as it builds out what it calls a federation of businesses among VMware, RSA Security, Pivotal and the company's traditional storage operations.
Stephen Lawson |
08 May |
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