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US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.
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InfoSec 2012: IBM launches new threat analytics engine
IBM is growing its Security Systems unit with the launch of a new threat analytics appliance, which the company claims can identify suspicious behaviour in the network to protect organisations against hidden threats.
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Asus Transformer Pad 300 will be released next month
Asus has announced the Transformer Pad 300 will go on sale next month.
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Verizon claims most data breaches undiscovered for months or years
Over 90 percent of data breaches are the result of external attacks and almost 60 percent of organisations discovered them months or years later, Verizon claimed at the RSA security conference.
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Malware increasingly using DNS as C&C channel to avoid detection
The number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday.
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Asus debuts phone-tablet hybrid PadFone and Transformer Pad family
The Asus PadFone made an appearance last May, but we haven't heard much about it in the time since. Now, at the Barcelona-based Mobile World Congress, Asus has given us a few more details about its phone-tablet hybrid.
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LG Optimus 4X HD with quad-core processor launched ahead of MWC
LG Electronics has launched the Optimus 4X HD smartphone, which is powered by a quad-core processor from Nvidia and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the company said yesterday.
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Click Security launches intrusion detection appliance with analytics
Startup Click Security has launched a threat detection product that analyses and correlates intelligence gathered by sensors on network traffic and activity to provide real-time alerts or even automate defence response to network intrusions or other security threats.
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Lenovo announces voice controlled smart TV
Lenovo on Sunday announced its first smart TV that will recognise voice commands and run Android 4.0 applications, getting a jump over Apple's rumoured pursuit of TVs with advanced features.
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M86 Security discover fragmented AJAX-based Web exploitation attacks
Security researchers from Web filtering vendor M86 Security have detected Web exploitation attacks that use AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to fragment the payload into small pieces of code that are harder to detect by antivirus programs and intrusion prevention systems.
