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Data Protection: Cornell University Loses 45,000 Records Another typical notification of data loss by an educational establishment. In summary, the personal details of around 45,000 current and former students and staff were lost when the laptop containing them was stolen. datalossdb.org entry / Cornell University Entry Cornell have been very open with the ...
CEO: White House Recognizes Cybersecurity Importance Today President Barack Obama recognized that cybersecurity of critical U.S. public and private infrastructure is essential to our national security and ...
Family Safety: The hidden danger of online videos An investigation by the Swiss police uncovered child pornography had been downloaded from a Swiss hip-hop music website to around 2,300 computers in 78 ...
Corporate Responsibility: Obama Gets It: Cybercrime is Real As you have likely read in the news, President Obama gets it: Cybercrime is real, it is not going away, and it’s time that we make it a priority in the ...
Security Perspectives: Disgruntled Employee or Cybercriminal? Our recent report entitled Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information cited survey results that shed light on the changing "face" of the threat horizon ...
Avert Labs: FakeAlerts Uncovered It has been almost a year since the rogue antivirus products, a.k.a. scareware, became rampant. These Trojan families are typically spread via Drive by ...
Consumer: Consumer Expectations in the Netbooks Market There is no doubt that Netbooks device category has been one of the hottest and most talked about consumer product categories in recent times. There has ...
Endpoint: April 1 Passes Without Major Conficker Incidents As the sun sets in California I thought I should provide an update on Conficker, the Windows computer worm that some predicted could wreak havoc on the ...
CSO: Predictive Security Update: Watch McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt’s RSA Conference keynote on Predictive Security and also view my video on the topic. The year started off really ...
Critical Infrastructure: Cyberspies Hack Power Grid - Those in the Know, Knew! Last month the press was abuzz with the news that the US electric grid has been hacked by foreign operatives. To anyone who has studied security in the ...
Network Security: Time to Update our “Defense in Depth” Definition - Part One We all seem to take for granted that changes happen very quickly in the online world, yet for some reason we haven’t updated our definition of “defense ...
Risk & Compliance: Gartner Risk and Compliance Summit This year’s theme at the Gartner Risk and Compliance Summit centered on directions and tools to help organizations maximize their Governance, Risk and ...
Public Sector: McAfee Firewall Enterprise Granted FIPS 140-2, Level 2 Validation I’m happy to announce that McAfee was recently awarded the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2, Level 2 validations from the Cryptographic ...

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