The Security Shelf

Look beyond BYOD

Whether officially permitted or not, employees are using personally-owned smart phones, tablets, and PCs for work. A study by Gartner last year found that 57% ...

Rapid Cybersecurity Risk Assessments

Businesses and governments alike are struggling to effectively protect information systems from cyber-attack. The theory appears sound: We conduct risks assessment, identify areas of risk ...

Apple releases iOS 7.1 to address multiple security issues

On Monday Apple released iOS 7.1 to address a number of security issues. The update is now available through iTunes and Software Update on iOS devices. ...

C-13: Who’s the bully?

Bill C-13 is being promoted by the Conservatives as addressing cyber-bulling, but it is much more about the Harper government bullying Canadians into giving up ...

Adobe Releases Security Update for Adobe Shockwave Player

Adobe has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave Player 12.0.7.148 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

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Top vendor join to bolster OpenSSL, other open source projects, after Heartbleed

Reeling from the Heartbleed security fiasco, major IT vendors including Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Google and Cisco are backing a Linux Foundation initiative designed to boost ...

Huawei still selling to carriers in the U.S.

Despite its setbacks in the U.S., Huawei Technologies still expects growth from its carrier business in the nation, and is focusing on the market’s smaller ...

Mobile Devices Still Unsecured in the Workplace

The survey found 43 percent have accessed sensitive corporate data on their personal device while on an unsecured public network.

Inside the DarkMarket Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize

The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site’s lucrative drug trade, still offered its ...

Heartbleed Puts 150 Million Android App Downloads at Risk

Heartbleed doesn’t just affect the operating system, new research shows application libraries to be at risk, too, across all Android versions.

Verizon Report Shows Good, Bad News in Data Breach Trends

Fraud detection is no longer the primary way that companies hear about breaches of their data systems. But third parties still are more likely to ...

Intralinks Acquires Document Security Firm docTrackr

Among docTrackrs technologies are its abilities to protect and track PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, no matter where those documents are.

Reg probe bombshell: How we hacked mobile voicemail without a PIN

Months after Leveson inquiry, your message are still not secure: Special report Voicemail inboxes on two UK mobile networks are wide open to being hacked. ...

Bank of England seeks ‘HACKERS’ to defend vaults against e-thieves

Report: 20 major cash-holders to be probed by white hats: The Bank of England is planning to hire ethical hackers to conduct penetration tests on ...

Researchers slurp unencrypted Viber messaging data with ease

Images, videos, location and other data easily exposed, they claim: Popular Whatsapp-like messaging service Viber is exposing users to man-in-the-middle and other attacks because it ...

Cisco: you’re all malware hosts

Security report also notes skills shortage: Everybody at least every multinational that Cisco checked out for its 2014 Annual Security Report is hosting malware of ...

Whoops! ‘Immune’ Apple posts Heartbleed fixes for AirPort, Time Capsule

Don’t worry, everything else is still safe … we think: Apple has posted a security update to address instances of the Heartbleed security vulnerability in ...

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