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Social networking seen by staff as security risk
The warnings about the security threats of social networking sites have made a deep impression on users with a growing number of users taking the view that sites like Facebook and LinkedIn pose a threat. Research yesterday from Clearswift revealed t... News | 07 Sep 2011
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Security fears spark social media clampdown
We are all meant to be getting more social but with the likes of Twitter and Facebook identified as sources of security threats more firms are clamping down on the use of networking sites. Over the past six months the rise in the use of social netwo... News | 06 Sep 2011
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Cyber-Ark confirms Lowe appointment
Cyber-Ark has confirmed that it has taken on former Northern European Check Point boss Nick Lowe with a remit to grow operations at the security vendor as it looks to get more out of its channel relationships. Lowe left Check Point last month after ... News | 01 Sep 2011
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IBM bolsters big data security credentials with i2 buy
IBM has swooped to pick up privately held UK crime intelligence specialist i2 as it looks to strengthen its proposition in the big data arena keeping up with rivals including SAP and Oracle. The theme of big data has emerged this year with software ... News | 01 Sep 2011
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Security threats continue to cause customer headaches
Security continues to remain the biggest headache for customers as they try to fend off cyber attacks which continue to evolve and cause problems for firms trying to protect sensitive data. The latest Symantec State of Security Survey revealed that ... News | 31 Aug 2011
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Blue Coat boss walks the plank as profits collapse
Blue Coat CEO Michael Borman has been ditched after just eleven months in the postafter the company failed to meet its financial targets during the first quarter of its fiscal 2012, which closed on 31 July. Borman joined from Avocent last September a... News | 17 Aug 2011
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Hackers using search engines to map targets
Hackers are taking advantage of search engines to seek out corporate vulnerabilities and map out targets harnessing the power of thousands of botnets to reveal the defences in specific servers. Imperva's latest hacking report highlights the use of G... News | 16 Aug 2011
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Lowe ends eight year stint at Check Point
Security vendor Check Point is mapping out the fresh management reporting chains after it emerged that its current regional head of Northern Europe Nick Lowe was leaving the firm after eight years. Lowe ran the UK for a while in his time at the vend... News | 11 Aug 2011
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ICO chooses not to fine Lush for data breach
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has been accused again of being a toothless tiger after it opted not to fine the cosmetics firm Lush after a data breach that lasted for four months at the tail-end of last year. The ICO has already been c... News | 10 Aug 2011
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ZyXEL offers security licensing freebie
SME and consumer networking specialist ZyXEL is to offer a free IDP licence to small business customers buying a Content Filter licence for any of its Unified Security Gateway products until the end of August. The extra licensing capability will ... News | 09 Aug 2011