You probably don’t interact with your PC’s BIOS (Basic Input/Output Operating System) much, but it occupies a unique and highly privileged position in your computer’s architecture. Since the BIOS loads before the operating system – and before you enter your user credentials – malware surreptitiously introduced into the BIOS could…
‘We need investment to secure our cyber future’: researcher
OPINION: Australian researchers need more funding to help secure cyber space, argues Dr Raymond Choo. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Newest Version of Snap Secure Mobile Security Suite Makes Managing and Protecting Tablets and Smartphones Easy as a …
PRINCETON, N.J., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – A significantly enhanced and easier-to-use version of the Snap Secure™ mobile security suite has been introduced by Snap MyLife®, Inc. (www.snapmylifeinc.com). Snap Secure (formerly SmrtGuard) is a cloud service application that provides a broad range of protection for Android and BlackBerry smartphones and Android…
How To Secure DNS with DNSCrypt
eSecurityPlanet: This open-source software for Mac and Linux does for DNS what SSL does for HTTP: It encrypts DNS traffic to prevent spoofing, snooping, and man-in-the-middle attacks. View full post on email spoofing – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
How to create different, secure and easy-to-remember passwords for every site
Is there a bigger hassle than password management? Based on ample evidence showing that a majority of users opt for simplistic, easy-to-guess passwords like “123456″ and, sadly, “password,” I’d say no. Here’s the problem: You need a robust, virtually impossible to crack password. You need a different one for each…
ProtectMyID: Knowing how to #besafeonline may be the key to your child’s secure identity. http://t.co/hIGN4UYD #childsafety #identitytheft
ProtectMyID: Knowing how to #besafeonline may be the key to your child’s secure identity. http://t.co/hIGN4UYD #childsafety #identitytheft View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair: Secure Communications Need Protection
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Security experts debate over how to ensure secure software
Consumer desire for unnecessary features has encouraged the development of insecure and unreliable software products, said Tenable Network Security CSO Marcus Ranum, during a debate on Wednesday about software liability at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. Ranum’s discussion partner, British Telecommunications’ chief technology security officer and renowned cryptographer…
MIT and DARPA investigate possibility of self-healing secure cloud
MIT researchers and the US government are investigating the feasibility of creating cloud computing infrastructure which can recognise a cyberattack, eliminate it, and never stop working while all that is being done. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have received funding from the Defense Advanced Research…
Spyware Becoming “Business-as-Usual” Tactic for Internet Giants, Threatening Secure Business Mobility
Required new permissions for Yahoo Mail and Messenger for Android gives Yahoo Carte Blanche access to phone user information, prompting business mobility consulting and development firm On The GoWARE to issue a security bulletin to its corporate clients. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 28, 2012 Mobile navigation with real-time traffic…