At the Hadoop Summit, Yahoo announces two key enhancements to the beta-level cloud computing platform: Hadoop with Security, and Oozie, a new workflow engine.
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At a roundtable discussion, security pros from Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee and other companies weighed the role of consumers, vendors and online businesses in securing the Internet.
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According to a new survey conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by NetWitness, 83% of information security professionals said their organization has been recently targeted by advanced threats, and 71% report that such attacks have increased in the past 12 months.
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Google will take a page from Mozilla’s security playbook and block outdated plug-ins from launching in its Chrome browser, part of a new effort to keep users safer, the company said Monday.
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Passwords are fundamentally insecure and represent the biggest security threat facing organisations, says Jason Hart, senior vice-president for Europe at security firm Cryptocard.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is inadequately securing medical and personal information on the more than 3 million airmen who it certifies as being fit to operate an aircraft, according to a new government report.
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“The first thing companies have to do to protect their information is to detect the five percent of vital data that is truly worthy of protection at all costs.” This was the core idea of the keynote address that Mr. Michael George, industrial espionage expert, Bavarian Department of the Interior [...]
Security experts in Germany are warning of a new threat to MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
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Already in the first six months of 2010, financial institutions have been involved with more than half the total data breaches they suffered in 2009 – and experts don’t see the pace decreasing.
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In a new document, the White House has outlined its plan for strengthening authentication and identity verification on the Web.
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