U.S. court tackles fake Canadian domain-name registrar, SEO popular with criminals, Intel to acquire McAfee, HP to buy Fortify, and time to be proactive on cybersecurity.
Despite major concerns over privacy and data security, people around the world are rapidly adopting the mobile internet as an easy and convenient method of carrying out everyday transactions including banking and shopping, according to KPMG's Consumers & Convergence IV survey.
IDG Research Services and RSA have found that nearly 80% of security executives are seeing user influence on IT decisions growing as smartphones, netbooks and tablet PCs enter the workplace.
Millions off home routers are at risk of hacking, the Ponemon Institute says the cloud makes data breaches pricey, BitDefender finds that Canadian moms are clueless about what their kids do online, and Research in Motion announces BlackBerry Protect.
Symantec unveils cloud-based enterprise protection, new attack bypasses every Windows security product, Google defends privacy policies, RSA targets “man-in-the-browser” attacks and leads in Gartner report, IT departments losing control of cloud computing security, and Juniper announces dynamic security for data centres.
PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that Canadian organizations are eight per cent less likely to know if they've had a security incident compared to their global counterparts, the security SaaS market grew 70% in 2009, RSA launches a cybercrime intelligence service for enterprises, Juniper Networks shows off, and Cisco Systems donates network security solution to Concordia University.
A study by Cormac Herley, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research, has found that popular advice on how to spare users from computer attacks often cost more when one takes into account the user effort and time expended.
Cisco System's VPN client for smartphones, Microsoft wards off attacks, Websense and Juniper get together, EMC expands security consulting, Canadian firm Defence Intelligence helps dismantle botnet, McAffee grows its SaaS base, Blue Coat and IBM team up, and...Do you know the most dangerous words on the web?
Microsoft has combined technology with a legal manoeuvre to cripple a massive network of hacked computers; and the company goes after a whistleblower site that reveals its advice to those who want to subpoena personal information.
