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Huawei Fires Sales Manager Who Poland Charged With Spying
2019-01-14 06:21

The Chinese tech company Huawei on Saturday announced it has fired a sales director who was arrested in Poland and charged with spying for China, saying he has brought the firm’s reputation “into...

Most organizations are migrating data for ERP apps to the cloud
2019-01-14 06:15

According to a Cloud Security Alliance survey, 69 percent of organizations are migrating data for popular ERP applications to the cloud, moving to major cloud infrastructure-as-a-service...

Revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products for cloud environments reached $16.8 billion
2019-01-14 06:00

According to the IDC, vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, grew...

IoT Community announces formation of Security, Privacy & Trust IoT Center of Excellence (SPTIoTCoE)
2019-01-14 02:00

The IoT Community (Internet of Things Community) unveiled the formation of its security, privacy and trust focused IoT Center of Excellence (SPTIoTCoE), which will be Co-Chaired by Nancy Shemwell,...

Week in review: How data becomes intelligence, email security predictions, EU bug bounties
2019-01-13 18:55

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: The attack surface is growing faster than it has at any other point in the history of technology Avast launched its...

Dridex/Locky Operator Uses New RAT in Recent Campaigns
2019-01-13 01:49

The threat actor responsible for large Dridex and Locky distribution campaigns in the past has been using a brand new backdoor in attacks over the past couple of months, Proofpoint reports.  read more

Facebooker swatted, Kaspersky snares an NSA thief, NASA server exposed, and more
2019-01-12 10:30

Plus, Vita boot ROM caper, TCL caught slinging Android malware, etc Roundup This week we saw a Huawei official cuffed (again), telcos caught selling tracking data (again) and Microsoft patching...

Ep. 014 – Rickrolls, Acrobat and zombie hands [PODCAST]
2019-01-12 01:10

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - enjoy!

*taps on glass* Hellooo, IRS? Anyone in? Anyone guarding taxpayers' data from crooks? Hellooo?
2019-01-12 00:04

Could someone slide a note on identity-theft protection under the door? Helloooo? With the partial US government shutdown showing no signs of letting up any time soon, senators are pressing...

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile US pledge, again, to not sell your location to shady geezers. Sorry, we don't believe them
2019-01-11 22:58

Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again, OK US cellphone networks have promised – again – that they will stop selling records of their subscribers' whereabouts to...