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Two companies, a door manufacturer and a dental laboratory network, have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers. read more »
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Financial services suffer mostData breaches cost UK companies an average of £47 for every record lost.… read more »
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/data_breach_real_cost/By John OatesThe Register25th February 2008Data breaches cost UK companies an average of 47 for every record lost.This means the average cost to a company which suffers a data breach is 1.4m. The Ponemon Institute isn't pulling these figures out of the ether- it talked to 21 UK companies about how much actual data breaches cost them.>From a total of 47 per record, the cost from lost business in the wake of a data disaster is 36 per cent or 17 read more »
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Think you can get away with using e-mail and the Internet in violation of company policy? Think again. read more »
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http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39170322,00.htmBy Natasha LomasSilicon.com10 March 2008Companies are being warned to make sure they correctly configure BlackBerrys - or risk weakening their IT security.Internet security consultancy company NTA Monitor says recent testing showed that organisations are still failing to ensure the smart phone devices are locked down.It said the BlackBerry architecture can be insecure if no firewalls are used to separate the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) r read more »
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The recent scandal at French bank Société Générale has again highlighted how vulnerable companies are against insider threats, speakers said Tuesday at the European Computer Audit Control and Security Conference in Stockholm. read more »
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Smaller businesses in particular are spending a larger percentage of their budgets on security than enterprises as they play a game of IT whack-a-mole. ...Exchange and SharePoint Hosting Plans Get your employees online with Exchange e-mail, calendar sharing, and SharePoint today! read more »
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Providers of applications security testing tools say business is taking off, as more customers are building such capabilities into their development lifecycles and large platform providers have picked off some of their closest rivals. read more »
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Network administrators are complaining that Apple's recent decision to offer users its Safari Web browser as part of an iTunes and QuickTime update has made their lives harder as they struggle to remove the software from PCs on their networks. read more »
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Today, Symantec Security Response has received reports from a number of our customers of a possible targeted spam attack against several Japanese companies. The spam email associated with this attack spoofs itself as an email from a Japanese government agency and entices the user to open the attached .zip file to check organizational changes made recently. The attached .zip file contains 2 files: 0414.xls and 0414.exe. 0414.xls is a legitimate file containing a list of names, addresses, personnel positio read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:37:26 -0500 (CDT)http://www.emportal.co.yu/en/news/region/60001.html20. August 2008EMportalRomanian hackers stripped foreign companies of over 150 million dollars in 2008 alone, Romania's Police representatives declared quoted by Romanian news television Realitatea TV.Romanian hackers stripped foreign companies of over 150 million dollars in 2008 alone, Romania's Police representatives declared quoted by Romanian news television Realitat read more »
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