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Chocolate is better than antivirus software in data breach settlement

Antivirus software can't stop someone's identity from being stolen

Fake antivirus makes security vendors look bad: Trend Micro

"The antivirus industry sucks," says Trend Micro CEO

How hackers find your weak spots

That Facebook friend request may be a hacker

Engineers fix shortcomings of the traditional firewall

Building a new firewall from the ground up

Use ants to fight worms

Researchers use digital ants to battle Trojans and other malware

Lack of single sign-on could hamper cloud security

Microsoft admits that Azure does not yet support FIM

Seven reasons websites are not secure

Many sites you visit are laden with malware. Here is advice on how to protect your systems.

Data centres go underground

Security, backup, data recovery and business continuity in a bunker

Novell and CA look to crack cloud authentication

New products aim to make cloud computing safer.

Getting to grips with PCI Security Standard

The dirty dozen of important principles.

SailPoint tackles the threat from within

How to guard against unhappy staff.

What the security industry can learn from Wall Street

If you have nothing to fear but fear itself, rationally speaking what is left to worry about?

Too much network control is a bad thing

Spread that knowledge and authority around.

Why can't we do anything about spam?

Email has been rendered almost useless; Facebook and Twitter are under attack.

Windows 7 security: more of the same please

How Vista was stepping stone to better things

Web file sharing, the new torrents?

Pirates hiding their warez booty

The problem with defence in depth

Security flaws and solutions

Is your office printer secure?

Network-attached device security poses serious risks, warns ISCA Labs

Companies overlook application security

Enterprises spend too much time worrying about operating systems

End-to-end encryption: The PCI security holy grail

How do you make it difficult to illicitly move and use your data? The answer is simple: encrypt it.

Twitter's Biz Stone speaks out about crippling DDoS attack

Stone also talks about Twitter (finally) making money

10 ways to hack into networks

Spying on voice and data

Securing servers in the cloud

How virtual servers can appear from nowhere.

Why employees ignore security

They have never heard of the 'policy', that's why.

Virtualisation and security - the risks explored

And what to look for when going virtual.


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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

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Best practices for optimising performance and availability in virtual infrastructures

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