The Mechanics Bank, the largest independent community bank in the San Francisco Bay Area, has undertaken an infrastructure upgrade that aims to boost the security of its Citrix Presentation Server-based application environment in the face of a growing threat from viruses and hackers.
U.S. consumer groups have warned of a growing danger from phishing and pharming attacks.
Enterprises can look forward to cheaper antivirus and anti-spyware software after Microsoft enters the desktop security market next year, industry experts predict.
The vast majority of business PC users believe that UK legal authorities were too soft on the members of the Thr34t-Krew cyber crime gang who were sentenced last week for causing unauthorised modification of computers with intent.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has kicked off a wide ranging information security systems overhaul. Worth around $10m in total the project will see Veterans Affairs (VA) develop a training programme and course designed to boost the skills of its information security officers.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the software giant’s Security Technology Unit, have outlined a strategy and product road map that they claim will help boost IT security for the firm’s customers.
The Liberty Alliance Project today unveiled business and policy guidelines designed to help organizations cope with the business,
legal and privacy challenges of deploying federated identity management.
Researchers warned today that there is a pressing need for companies to scrutinize existing identity management policies to keep pace with rapid developments in access technology and mobile devices.
Up to 12 percent of all scanning attacks targeting broadband service
providers networks are launched internally, from their own subscribers,
newly published research has claimed.
