Survey Says: Portable Storage Devices a Growing Threat
Survey asked 323 IT professionals about potential security impact of iPods, USB flash drives and other devices in the workplace. Although organizations see rapid growth in such device usage, few have a solution to prevent widespread data loss. Download report.
After a light November round, December's Patch Tuesday fixes from Microsoft is likely to have security administrators on their toes. The Redmond, Wash.-based company today released seven fixes for 11 vulnerabilities, labeling three of them "critical" because they could allow an attacker to remotely hijack a user's computer.
An annual study by Gartner will report that the number of consumers who were taken in by bogus online offerings increased by nearly 40 percent in 2007 compared to the previous year.
Researchers today began noticing increased activity on ports directed to media players, a strong indication that attackers are actively screening machines for a new codec vulnerability reported over the weekend.
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U.K.-based encryption and key management provider nCipher announced today it acquired most of the intellectual property and assets of NeoScale Systems, an appliance-based enterprise storage security firm that recently ceased operations.
The U.S. House of Representatives is unlikely to take up a tough identity theft law passed by the Senate last month before considering a broader measure proposed by the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a committee counsel told SCMagazineUS.com today.
A targeted assault of phishing emails opened the door for hackers to glean the sensitive information of up to 12,000 visitors to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, officials said Thursday.
Survey Says: Portable Storage Devices a Growing Threat
Survey asked 323 IT professionals about potential security impact of iPods, USB flash drives and other devices in the workplace. Although organizations see rapid growth in such device usage, few have a solution to prevent widespread data loss. Download report.
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