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- Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace
- The Kwikset Kevo lock opens at your touch
- Samsung Galaxy Note II, S3 exposed to partial "Emergency Call" lock-screen bypasses
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Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace
In an alarming 'post-PC' era alert, working group says criminal infrastructure created much faster than it was for PC fraud
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PayPal says it's time to ditch passwords and PINs
PayPal CISO Michael Barrett took the keynote stage at Interop to announce the impending death of passwords and their replacement with more robust authentication protocols based on an open standard. Apple may lead the way with its next iPhone.
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The Kwikset Kevo lock opens at your touch
Those fancy entry locks with the touch-sensitive numeric keypads are so 2012. Kwikset's new Kevo deadbolt quizzes your iPhone to verify that you're authorized to enter, and then unlocks when you physically touch it.
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Google Play changes bring cautious optimism on Android security
Making app updates available only via the store will improve security on Google's mobile platform, but experts are not sure how much
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Detector finds smuggled cellphones even without batteries or SIM cards
Turning off cellphones or even locking them in metal boxes won't be enough to keep them hidden with a new phone detector introduced on Monday.
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Tech Titans Talk: The IDG Enterprise Interview Series
In the IDG Enterprise Interview Series, you'll hear from technology CIOs and CEOs on today's burgeoning trends, ongoing headaches and upcoming product plans. Check out this informative series from IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and his team of editors.
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33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6
Perhaps you are already an iOS master. Or maybe you consider yourself more of a novice. Either way, we feel confident that at least some of the tips and tricks for iOS 6 that we present below will be new to you. What's more, we hope you love them--and benefit from them--as much as we do.
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2012: The year in quotes
Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.
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Worst security snafus of 2012
The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.
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Opinion: I want a military smartphone
The U.S. military wants to put smartphones in the hands of all deployed troops. Their phones are going to be better than regular smartphones, says Mike Elgan, and that's why he wants one.
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The TCO and Security of Enterprise Grade Mobility
In this whitepaper, Strategy Analytics present the findings of extensive research into the total cost of ownership (TCO) and security across major mobile platforms. Find out about the challenges companies are encountering in the face of the four Cs: Compliance, Control, Cost and Consumerisation. Click to download.
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Setting New Standards in Mobile Security
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Top 10 tips for Migration
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Web Security Services: Delegating Security Responsibility to the Cloud
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The new IAM: nailing shut the door on the Trojan horse
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Despite $1.46b furphy, 2013-14 Budget offers slim pickings for cyber security
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VMWare wants software defined data centres for better security
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iiNet’s Web analytics delivers real-time security bonus
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Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform
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Splunk Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM
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Dell Sets Sights on Cisco, Announces Game-Changing NSA Series That Introduces Powerful Next-Gen Firewall Advances for Mid-sized Businesses and Distributed Enterprises
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Silver Peak saves Riverbed customers up to 86 per cent with software upgrade program
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Ovum analysis ranks Orange Business Services ahead of APAC competition for service capability and strategy
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2013 Brightcove Innovation Award Winners Announced at PLAY 2013 Global Customer Conference
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Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.











