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RSS hackers breachHackers breach Guardian Jobs site
News Personal details included in users' job applications may have been accessed by the hackers, according to an email sent to affected users by Guardian Jobs on Saturday. The Guardian Jobs site has been breached by... [26 Oct 2009]
Convenient Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Web Portals & Enterprise Applications
White Paper Single-factor authentication is easily defeated by hackers and can result in a security breach, financial loss, or loss of sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). As the usage... [06 Oct 2009]
Outsmarting Tomorrow's Hackers Today
White Paper Network IDS/IPS and first-generation Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) don't protect against today's sophisticated web application threats, such as cross-site scripting, injection flaws and other vulnerabilities listed on the OWASP Top 10. [01 Oct 2009]
Optimistic CEOs must not neglect IT security
News Commissioned by Ounce Labs, the survey of more than 200 executives revealed that CEOs were more confident than other C-level executives that a data breach can be avoided. Compared to other respondents, they were also... [03 Aug 2009]
Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities and How to Mitigate Them
White Paper Unfortunately, under the pressure of a tight development schedule, it is difficult to stay focused on the fact that malicious intruders are actively searching for the smallest opportunity to breach application security. [31 Jul 2009]
Why Your Firewall, VPN, and IEEE 802.11i Aren't Enough to Protect Your Network
White Paper Mischievous hackers may try to attack the network, or a negligent employee may create a security breach that leaves the corporate WLAN or a client device vulnerable to attack. Like any network... [13 Jul 2009]
Why 1970s hackers had 'whiz kid' status
Comment I had to breach like four layers of security to get in. Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous computer hackers, talks to CNET News about his days on the dark side and why he's now one of the good guys. [23 Jun 2009]
Website Security Tests Protect Against Application Vulnerabilities
White Paper More than four out of every five (85 percent) U.S.businesses have experienced a data breach, according to a recent study by Colchester, Conn.based law firm Scott + Scott, putting millions of consumers' Social Security... [14 May 2009]
Threat Modeling for the Management of Risk
White Paper The difficulty lies in the fact that although the high-level threat is generally well understood (breach of customer data, denial of service etc.the underlying causes and sub-threats that can lead to it remain obscure. [01 May 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment A poll of anti-fraud chiefs published by RSA Conference in the run up to the event found that more than half thought fraud attacks have increased because of the global economic problems - and one in three said their organisation had been... [21 Apr 2009]
Windows Vista: A Cyber Security Shield
White Paper The average cost per security breach is on the rise, and the two main security concerns in most organizations are "Spyware and employees' ignorance of security. Hackers are constantly exploiting security... [23 Mar 2009]
How to recover from a data breach
Comment Breach containment isn't always as easy as patching a piece of software, warns Bruce Potter, founder of security consulting firm Ponte Technologies and organiser of the recent ShmooCon security conference. [09 Feb 2009]
As crunch bites: Don't neglect the logs
Comment Any security breach where data is lost could damage their reputation and cause customers to jump ship. Failure to adequately protect information and ensure its integrity has not been compromised could also lead to... [05 Feb 2009]
Is this the largest security breach ever?
News Heartland Payment Systems, which processes payroll and credit card payments for more than 250,000 businesses, reported Tuesday that consumer credit card data was exposed in what may be the largest security breach ever. [21 Jan 2009]
Data Loss Prevention From the Inside Out
White Paper Further, Ponemon Institute estimates that each data breach now costs the average company $6.3 million. Most of these losses are caused by careless or naive employees, not hackers or data thieves.... [10 Dec 2008]
