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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.

Spotting weak security staff

Get them before they hold the network hostage - somtimes literally.

The lowdown on the Techworld product awards

Why the winners won