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Smartphones should have the ability to scan applications, as suspicions are raised about the validity and safety of downloads

Dan Raywood March 11, 2010

Veracode has warned on application security as users could possibly download malware from suspicious code writers.

Online fraud levels increase as positive signs are seen over card fraud

Dan Raywood March 11, 2010

A decline in the amount of card fraud is a positive, but UK cardholders should remain vigilant.

Payment validation boosted by real-time solution from Unified Software

Dan Raywood March 11, 2010

Online credit validation is to be boosted for businesses with the BankVal solution from Unified Software.

CA set to complete another acquisition with performance and availability monitoring solutions provider in sight

SC Staff March 11, 2010

CA is to acquire Nimsoft, a provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions for emerging enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs).

US Department of Homeland Security's website for Iowa vandalised by hackers

SC Staff March 10, 2010

The US Department of Homeland Security's website for Iowa has been defaced by hackers.

Latest Reviews

Netgear STM600

March 08, 2010 |

Netgear signalled its intentions on the SMB web and content filtering market last year with the launch of the STM family of appliances – but it rather jumped the gun, as a number of important features hadn’t yet been implemented.

Cisco IronPort S160

March 05, 2010 |

Cisco’s IronPort appliances have traditionally offered a powerful security solution to enterprises, but it now wants to make this technology available to budget-conscious SMBs.

LogLogic DSM

March 05, 2010 |

Businesses must comply with data protection regulations, but database security is often left out of the equation for one simple reason: to monitor database activity, auditing must be enabled and many administrators will not do this due to serious concerns about performance.

Clearswift Web Appliance

March 04, 2010 |

Never tempted to diversify, Clearswift has always had a firm focus on web and messaging content security and its latest v2.0 appliances deliver a range of welcome new features. In this exclusive review, we look at its Web Appliance CSHE, which targets mid-sized businesses with between 250 and 500 users.

ACTAtek

March 01, 2010 |

ACTAtek’s Combination Unit device uses optical technology to read finger and thumb prints, which it then transfers into templates and stores on the system. This comprises a central unit and several slave units. The central unit can communicate with the rest of the slave units through the network and transfer ...

Could effective log management and SIEM have prevented the Wyndham Hotels incident?

Dan Raywood March 09, 2010

Last week we covered a story regarding the Wyndham Hotel group that 'discovered that a sophisticated hacker penetrated the computer systems of one of the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts (WHR) data centres over a three-month period'.

Why is restricting access to cardholder data the biggest challenge of PCI DSS compliance?

Dan Raywood March 05, 2010

At the start of this week we covered a report by Thales and the Ponemon Institute on findings around Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance audits by qualified security assessors (QSA).

Professional Monitor: in association with (ISC)2

February 25, 2010

RuneScape creator Jagex has 112 million accounts, 400 staff - and only one infosec officer. Frequent training and a mandatory security-awareness programme are the keys.

Mobile gadgets used by employees are a security threat to the company network

Sean Glynn February 25, 2010

Without a strong policy, the end-user's mobile gadgets could attack the firm's soft underbelly, says Sean Glynn.

Certified products are not always as secure as the approval suggests

Nick Barron February 25, 2010

'Approved' product is a gift horse into whose mouth you need to look with great care. You pays for what you gets...

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RSA Conference 2010: Video highlights

If you couldn't make it to the conference last week - don't worry! RSA has neatly put together videos of the keynote speeches by industry luminaries. We present the SC pick below.

Art Coviello
Executive VP, EMC; president, RSA, Security Division of EMC

Scott Charney
Corporate VP Trustworthy Computing (TwC), Microsoft

Enrique Salem
President & CEO, Symantec

Howard Schmidt
U.S. Cybersecurity Coordinator

Philippe Courtot
Chairman & CEO, Qualys

David DeWalt
President & CEO, McAfee

Al Zollar
General manager, IBM Tivoli Software

Dr. Peter Warren Singer
Senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative, Brookings Institution

Click here for full interactive coverage of RSA Conference

Opinion

The news in review - 10th March 2010

Could effective log management and SIEM have prevented the Wyndham Hotels incident?

Latest features

Oracle's Sun rise, a new dawn?

Kevin Eagles February 26, 2010

It's finally happened folks, with the EU handbrake now released Oracle and Sun are now one mighty rolling combo.

SC Vision

2010: the year of living dangerously?

Whether it's the challenge of integrating Web 2.0, making sense of the cloud, or simply keeping up with malware, all in a stringent economic climate, it's going to be a tough 2010.

Hear insight from the leading thinkers, such as BitDefender, AstraZeneca, Skype, Travelex and more at www.scvision.tv.