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Two Missing BCBS laptops may impact 800k people

Source: http://threatpost.com/two-missing-insurance-laptops-may-impact-800k-people/103202 Someone broke into the offices of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and stole two laptops that contained the sensitive information of more

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Target Stores said have data breach of over 40 million customers

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616054-83/target-investigating-massive-black-friday-data-breach-report/ Everyone will be attacked, and many will be breached.  Have you taken steps to protect your organization or made plans for how to react

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Missing Thumb Drive Compromises User Data

Do you have policies in place to protect your client’s data?  Do you verify that your employees are following those policies?  It was reported that

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Microsoft December Security Bulletin

Today Microsoft released eleven security bulletins addressing 24 CVE’s. Five bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other six have a maximum

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Information Security Profiling

If your not profiling, you’re not doing security…This is a great article that dispells some common misconceptions about the word profiling.  http://www.danielmiessler.com/blog/security-profiling

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Microsoft November Security Bulletin

Today Microsoft released eight security bulletins addressing 19 CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other five have a maximum

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McAfee Labs Detects Zero-Day Exploit Targeting Microsoft Office

Last Thursday morning (October 31), our Advanced Exploit Detection System (AEDS), which we discussed in an earlier post, detected a suspicious sample targeting Microsoft Office. After

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Top 5 malware that kept researchers up at night

Which malicious code would be most frightening if sinister pieces of malware could rise from the dead on Halloween? Well, malware researchers spend all their

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MongoHQ Hacked

This goes to show that application dev is not necessarily the biggest risk.  Information Security isn’t tied to any single domain of IT or business.