Cisco beats estimates on 17% sales jump in security business

The company has been beefing up its wireless security and datacenter businesses to offset the impact of sluggish spending by telcos and enterprises on its main business of making network switches and routers. Network equipment maker Cisco Systems reported better-than-expected results and gave an upbeat forecast for the current quarter, sending its shares up about […]

10 of the best jump and run platformer games for Android and iOS

Nintendo’s Donkey Kong hit the arcades all the way back in 1981. Many were the factors that made it a video game unlike the rest, one of them being that it told a story. Pauline, a damsel in distress, had been kidnapped by a giant ape and it was up to a hero to save […]

Hacker Attacks on Healthcare Providers Jump 600 Percent

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The recent data breach at Community Health Systems, in which Chinese hackers stole the personal information of 4.3 million patients, was another sign of a disturbing trend that security researchers at Websense have been observing for months: Healthcare providers are […] For more information go to […]

McAfee: Digitally-signed malware numbers jump

E-criminals are increasingly using digitally signed malware to try to circumvent computer-security measures, according to security company McAfee. The number of unique malicious binaries that use digital signatures to try to trick users, admins, and security software into trusting and running malware jumped from almost zero at the beginning of January 2012 to more than […]

Apple desktops see jump in security threats in 2011

New Mac-based security threats jumped in 2011, but still remain far below that of Windows PCs, according to a report by F-Secure Labs. A total of 58 unique variants were detected from April through December, according to the Labs’ Threat Research team. Nearly half, 29, were Trojan downloaders, which F-Secure defines as a type of […]