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MessageLabs Intelligence has recorded a recent rice in spam using TLS (Transport Layer Security), a technique for sending email through encrypted channels. The accounted spam rose to 35% from last week's 20%.
WhiteHat Security CTO, Jeremiah Grossman, discussed the top 10 Web hacking techniques in the RSA conference 2010. The creation of rogue certificate authority ranked the first in the list.
Despite losing 25% command-and-control servers, the Trojan botnet has returned as soon as Troyak.org reestablished upstream connections.
Blocking DNS cache poisoning attacks are expected to be a thing of the past with security improvements in the DNS layer.
While the benefits of social networking are sound as discussed in the RSA conference 2010, the security infrastructure around it should first be improved.
Cybercriminals are seeing the value in healthcare date as more and more healthcare records are getting stolen for getting drugs and other medical fraud.
The software giant is set to release eight security fixes in its latest security patch cycle.
Virtual patching was the subject of much discussion in the RSA conference 2010. While it is a good temporary solution for minor network vulnerabilities, it should not replace proper implementation of problem fixes.
The consensus in the RSA conference 2010 on PCI tokenization is that while it bears potential in credit card protection, the lack of standards to back it up is an issue for concern.
In the RSA conference 2010, security experts are saying that federal government intervention may be necessary to protect the privacy of critical network infrastructures but it should continue to mind the civil rights of its citizens.
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Today's top security priorities
Attacks based on vulnerabilities in websites are skyrocketing, and not many solutions are available to protect organizations against them. How do you deal with this and other key security issues today?
Taking a holistic business-centric approach to security
Today’s CIOs face multiple challenges, including the need to innovate in an extremely competitive business climate, address highly dynamic regulatory and compliance challenges, speed ROI to counter shrinking IT budgets, and secure their organizations against a wide barrage of sophisticated threats.
UTM product offers Logansport Savings Bank superior protection
Astaro Security Gateway’s IPS was able to block attacks that other intrusion prevention systems (IPS) missed at Logansport Savings Bank.
Hong Leong Financial opts for Juniper Networks at new Malaysia head office, data center
Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad builds complete and seamless data center and office network infrastructure with Juniper switches, security devices and Junos software.
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The 10 Most Popular Security Articles for 2008
You are what you read! We culled the entire database of SearchSecurityAsia piecing together a list of the 10 most read articles in 2008. The list doesn't surprise us. Readers are looking for help to understand how technology and best practices can help them solve their problems. Read on!
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Social networking sites are phishing traps 
How hackers are ingeniously leveraging social networking sites and the Web 2.0 to craft new phishing attacks, posing a new threat to their users.
Could the 2010 World Cup be a nightmare waiting to happen for IT managers?
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa promises worldwide coverage like never before, with the BBC Sport website offering live video streaming of all matches. This presents a nightmare to IT managers are they anticipate employees accessing video coverage of the event via their desktops.
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Information security issues, strategies and spending in 2010
In the SearchSecurity Asia Information Security Survey at the beginning of 2010, we asked IT and information security professionals from the region questions ranging from security and risk management issues they are currently dealing with, to a comparison of their IT budgets in 2009 and 2010 and their organizations’ information security strategy, to their greatest fears and needs.
Where is enterprise security heading in 2010
Symantec’s 2010 State of Enterprise Security study reveals that organizations are intent to double their efforts at shoring up their security infrastructure, considering the increasing security breaches, and initiatives such as ‘Cloud Computing’ that are viewed as being more problematic from a security standpoint.
