February 2014 – Security & Privacy Protection

Akamai, the leading provider of cloud services finally tied the knot with Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services. The deal has been in the making for months now and was officially announced just this week. Together, they are able to offer a more comprehensive portfolio of cloud-based Web […]

FireEye’s latest Advanced Threat Report has just been released, detailing malicious activities captured by the FireEye Security Platform throughout 2013. The report shows that malware activity has become so pervasive globally that attack servers communicating with malware are now hosted in 206 countries and territories.

Relentlessly focused on keeping its customers safe, McAfee launched this week a full-featured version of its award-winning McAfee Mobile Security. Now available at no cost in 30 languages, the move is part of an Intel Corporation initiative to make security a more integrated part of the consumer experience.

The increasingly popular teenage question and answer social network, Ask.fm, has launched an online Safety Centre to help internet users develop online safety skills.

Yota Devices, developer of high tech consumer LTE devices, and Cellrox, a leader in multi-persona solutions for mobile devices, announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) a partnership agreement to provide Cellrox’s multi-persona technology on the dual-screen YotaPhone. With this technology, YotaPhone will provide functionality, privacy and security for both corporate and personal use.

That there is no 100%-security guarantee to be protected on mobile devices is obvious, otherwise the NSA would not have managed to intercept the cell phone service of well-known politicians.

Concerns about the safety of new services on the Internet are as much part of our virtual life as the carefree spread of personal data on social networks. Obviously, the tension between the need for openness on one hand, and security on the other hand, requires a new culture of privacy and trust on the

“Shareconomy” was the motto of the CeBIT last year, the world’s largest international computer show that will open its doors again next month in Hanover, Germany. What it describes in a condensed matter is the sharing of information which quite obviously requires a secure exchange of data and good solutions to fight viruses, worms and

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has been active for more than a decade now to unify the global response to electronic crime and the group just published its new Q3 2013 Phishing Activity Trends Report last week. In general, the APWG measures the evolution, proliferation, and propagation of crimeware by drawing from the research of

By sharing threat information across controls and directing preventative actions in real-time, McAfee is able to provide immediate protection against the threats posed by advanced targeted attacks across both network and endpoint controls.