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BlackBerry maker RIM meets Ofcom to discuss porn blockade

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) was summoned to a meeting with the UK communications regulator Ofcom yesterday, after it emerged that children are able to view pornography on its smartphones.
Enterprise security spending up, but data protection overlooked

It's no big secret. Contemporary attacks are levied over the web, attackers will craft custom malware to slither past anti-malware defences and any business on any given day can be compromised. That's the reality of where information security stands today.
Adult industry websites urged to buy up .XXX domains

Registrar ICM Registry has announced that the dot-XXX sponsored top level domain (sTLD) for the adult entertainment industry is open for registration.
Anonymous hacktivists assault Turkish government websites

Hacker group Anonymous said on Thursday it has launched DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on some Turkish government websites, in protest against government plans to introduce Internet filtering.
Facebook most blacklisted site says Open DNS

Facebook is the most blacklisted website and second most whitelisted too. PayPal is the winner when it comes to phishing according to research from Open DNS
SEC staff watched online porn during Wall Street crisis

Several senior SEC staffers spent hours daily watching porn on their work computers even as the massive financial crisis was unfolding in 2008, according to agency's inspector general.
OpenDNS reaches milestone in DNS services

It doesn't sound like a lot but OpenDNS's one percent of the world's market is a significant figure
Europe's spam war hits stalemate

Europe's ISPs are just about holding their own against the global spam barrage, a Europe-wide report has found. Put another way, things are not getting better, but they are not getting any worse either.
Cisco bags Scansafe for $183 million

Never one to turn up the opportunity to buy in what it doesn't have, Cisco has announced plans to buy rising security-as-a-service star, Scansafe.
McAfee outlines email security strategy

McAfee has outlined details of its email security strategy, providing enterprises with the widest range of deployment choices and service options available today.

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The best way to keep your business safe and secure

In the 1995 film "Hackers" the lead character downloads sensitive information to a floppy disk. Today, of course, advances in technology have yielded equally advanced security threats. Consider news reports in the past year about computers compromised by botnets. Businesses face daily threats from these and other cybersecurity dangers that are further enhanced by increased reliance on new business communications and computing tools.
Turbocharge web browsing with Greasemonkey scripts

Add cool features to Gmail, streamline the Web, and get more out of the Internet with these must-have Greasemonkey scripts.
DNS: a tempting free lunch

Are free DNS services worth the cost?
Cellular in the last mile - hidden problems

A 3G router can turn a cellular connection into a broadband replacement. But will the operators like it?
Do you know what's on your network?

There's most likely a lot more information moving around than you think - and a lot of it will be stuff that you definitely don't want leaving the organisation.
Aruba plans for success

Wireless security vendors, and Aruba's competitors, all come under the scrutiny of chief executive Dominic Orr.
Free software flows

Developers have realised that free versions - whether cut-down or time-limited - are an ideal way to get new users interested in their software, and that means network managers can get stuff done for a lot less money.
Remote access is no longer a luxury

Top tips from the real world on how to enable secure remote access to your network, whether for roaming users or remote sites.
Infosec: New products to look out for

The tradition of launching new products at shows has long since died a death, but this year's Infosecurity show still features a sprinkling of genuinely new or recently new products.
Is reputation services the future for spam fighting?

Dictionary and content-based anti-spam technology is being replaced with a new generation based on reputation assessment.

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Threats in a Web 2.0 world Will your IT policy protect you?

Web 2.0 is here. Innovations such as instant messaging, blogging and multi-networking are part of daily life and will revolutionise the way we all do business. Is your organisation protected against the threats these tools can bring?
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Postini 2006 Message Management & Threat Report

The Postini 2006 Message Management & Threat Report provides a concise summary of how message threats have evolved over the past year; changes in message management concerns and priorities; how organizations are responding to changes in message threats and regulations; and what to expect in 2006.
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Maintaining control

Over recent years, virus and network threats have become much more sophisticated. Traditionally, a dedicated firewall was enough to keep the business protected, however, unfortunately today's businesses face a variety of different security threats and a simple firewall is no longer enough to provide the level of protection needed to protect the corporate network, resources and assets.
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Conquering E-mail and Data Security Risks

Security-based incidents from the internet are resulting in average revenue losses of almost $2 million per incident across all industries and firms, according to Aberdeen Group. Retailers are an easy target of external attacks; retail brands are well known, and confidential data is dispersed thoughout the many mini-networks retailers operate among headquarters, store and distribution locations.
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Secure Content Management: Protected, Productive Networks for Today?s Businesses

Today?s businesses?from small companies to large global enterprises?rely on the Internet for efficient access to information and resources. But companies are faced with many challenges when it comes to managing the risks to in-house networks and data. The risks can be classified in four categories: attacks to data and the network, abuses and inappropriate use of resources by authorized users, legal liabilities based on recent legislation requiring network managers to provide safe and appropriate environments for all network users, and the ability to efficiently administer networks. Some threats fall into multiple risk categories. For example, viruses, phishing programs, spyware and other external threats tax network support teams, erode bandwidth and can result in legal liabilities and vulnerabilities. Abuse of instant messaging and inappropriate peer-to-peer applications pose additional liabilities and can reduce productivity.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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