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Now that Facebook is flush with cash (and expectations), here’s what we have to watch out for. By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PCWorld After all the attention, clamor, and expectations Facebook is now a publicly traded company worth $104 billion. With shares trading at a hundred times earnings, Facebook is under a lot of pressure to increase the profit […]

Shane McGlaun (Blog) Everyone is aware that smartphones can be hacked and are a potential source of security vulnerability for personal and private data. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning for medical devices and smartphones noting that the devices can expose patient data and lead to cyber security issues. The DHS issued

By Edwin Kee   Life in the cloud is not all peachy keen it seems, as a handful of iCloud accounts have been compromised despite being protected by secure, randomly generated passwords. This has led to speculation by the iCloud community in general that a security breach might have happened on Apple’s servers. According to one of those

Once in a while, someone comes up with the idea that firewalls are really not all that necessary. Most recently, Roger Grimes of Infoworld [1][2]. I am usually of the opinion that we definitely probably need firewalls. But I think the points made by the anti-firewall faction offer some insight into not only why we

By John Fontana  Summary: A developer has created a password analysis tool that examines patterns to determine password strength and concludes password-creation policies are the real enemy of solid passwords. Passwords stink because policies for creating them typically focus only on composition and can’t measure strength, according to developer Cameron Morris. The time it takes to crack

As a penetration tester, your work tends to be fairly straightforward. You obtain a client engagement, define the scope of your penetration testing work, and then use your knowledge, skills, and tools to provide the client with a report of their vulnerabilities. As more and more people are starting to learn the value of penetration

By Ellen Messmer <a href=”http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idge.cso.identity_access/access_control;kw=anonymous,fbi,forresterresearch,security,accesscontrolandauthentication,nac,ddos,next-generationfirewalls;tile=8;pos=sidecar;sz=60×55;cid=706489;author=ellen_messmer;type=article” target=”_blank” style=”border:none”><img src=”http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idge.cso.identity_access/access_control;kw=anonymous,fbi,forresterresearch,security,accesscontrolandauthentication,nac,ddos,next-generationfirewalls;tile=8;pos=sidecar;sz=60×55;cid=706489;author=ellen_messmer;type=article” border=”0″ height=”55″ width=”60″ /></a> May 15, 2012— Network World— Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away. Do you agree or disagree?