Start-up Netskope comes out of stealth mode today in unveiling its security service intended to help enterprises monitor how employees are using cloud-based applications, such as Salesforce.com, while also giving IT managers the ability to block data transfers or receive alerts.
Ellen Messmer | 03 Oct | Read more
Revelations made by NSA leaker Edward Snowden would have given former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio a fighting chance to beat insider-trading charges that garnered him a 70-month jail term, says Nacchio, who was released this month after serving four and a half years.
Tim Greene | 01 Oct | Read more
Intellectual property rights (IPR) have become the cornerstone of the EU economy, accounting for 40 percent of its economic activity and a third of its employment, a joint study by the European Patent Office and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) has concluded.
John E Dunn | 01 Oct | Read more
Intel has signed a deal to acquire Sensory Networks, a provider of software pattern matching technology for network security applications.
John Ribeiro | 01 Oct | Read more
Revelations made by NSA leaker Edward Snowden would have given former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio a fighting chance to beat insider-trading charges that garnered him a 70-month jail term, says Nacchio, who was released this month after serving four and a half years.
Tim Greene | 30 Sep | Read more
Cisco and Intel say that companies wanting to make use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds should be aware that controls exist for keeping virtual workloads on servers within country borders.
Ellen Messmer | 30 Sep | Read more
While some experts welcome the move, another sees it as a Trojan horse for more access to Americans' communications
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Sep | Read more
Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has launched a new Cyber Intelligence Centre that aims to help companies monitor, analyse and respond to cyber threats.
Anh Nguyen | 25 Sep | Read more
Infrastructure and tools used by hackers originate from network infrastructure in China, security firm Symantec says
Antone Gonsalves | 24 Sep | Read more
Court's rationale allows collection of almost any information on Americans, including all financial transactions and Internet activity
Antone Gonsalves | 19 Sep | Read more
Security researchers from the U.S. and Europe released a paper showing how integrated circuits used in computers, military equipment and other critical systems can be maliciously compromised during the manufacturing process through virtually undetectable changes at the transistor level.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Sep | Read more
When NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander addressed Black Hat earlier this year, he painted a rosy picture of how well the agency controls access to its phone record database, but he never brought up cases when those controls broke down, unauthorized access was made and data was shared among analysts who shouldn't have seen it.
Tim Greene | 12 Sep | Read more
Enterprises are still ignoring the threat posed by out-of-date versions of Java, with barely one in five running the latest version during August, security firm Websense has reported.
John E Dunn | 10 Sep | Read more
With BlackBerry cast aside by Android and Apple iOS, Microsoft has an opportunity to fill the security gap
Antone Gonsalves | 04 Sep | Read more
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith Friday said that the company would move ahead with its lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking permission to release more information on demands Microsoft receives from the National Security Agency and others for Internet user data.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 30 Aug | Read more