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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 314 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: over percent companies workers email net abuse comments Discuss  
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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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 279 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn ddos packets percent net traffic report says comments Discuss  
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/ddos-packets-ar.htmlBy Ryan Singel Threat LevelWired.comApril 02, 2008 One out of every 50 packets on the internet is malicious junk intended simply to clog the tubes, according to a high level traffic analysis by Arbor Networks.Distributed Denial of Service attacks or DDoSes aim to bring a site down by bombarding it with fake requests for a web page or image. It's like having 1,000 people continually crank calling a company -- the real customers can't get through.A read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 191 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: data breach reports percent comments Discuss  
Businesses, governments and universities reported a record number of data breaches in the first half of this year, a 69 percent increase over the same period in 2007 driven by a spike in data thefts attributed to employees and contractors, according to an analysis by identity theft experts. The San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center tracked 342 data breach reports from Jan. 1 to June 27. Nearly 37 percent of reports came from businesses --...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 190 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: forty percent web users surf unsafe browsers comments Discuss  
A comprehensive new study of online surfing habits released today found that only 60 percent of the planet's Internet users surf the Web with the latest, most-secure versions of their preferred Web browsers. The study (PDF), conducted by researchers from Google, IBM and the Communication Systems Group in Switzerland, relied on data from server logs provided by Google for search requests between Jan. 2007 and June 2008. The researchers found that of the 1.4 billion...Please click on the title to continue re read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 176 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: windows update servers score percent uptime beat competitors comments Discuss  
Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, a Swedish uptime monitoring company said. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 1 day 11 hours ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn data breaches percent affecting records million people comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:32:23 -0600 (CST)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010503046.htmlBy Brian KrebsWashingtonpost.com Staff WriterJanuary 6, 2009Businesses, governments and educational institutions reported nearly 50 percent more data breaches last year than in 2007, exposing the personal records of at least 35.7 million Americans, according to a nonprofit group that works to prevent identity fraud.Identity Theft Resource read more »
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