Bitcoins are around now for five years, just recently having gained mass media attention – not for the right reasons –- but for criminal activities and theft. If the launch of the world’s first Bitcoin ATM has been astonishing a few months back, attacks from unknown hackers started to spread fear and trepidation now.
Will malware and wallet theft slow-down the Bitcoin drive? Read More »
Timely to Valentine’s Day, McAfee released the findings from its 2014 Love, Relationships & Technology survey. For the first time in Singapore, and the second time globally, the company examined how adults are sharing and storing intimate data on their mobile devices, especially with current or former significant others.
Valentine’s Day advice: Don’t share intimate content via unsecured digital devices Read More »
By now everybody is aware of the dangers out there when using WiFi hotspots, isn’t it? Well, according to recent reports surprisingly that isn’t so: Juniper Research, for instance, revealed that only 5% of global smartphones and tablets had security software installed, even though those devices account for 57% of hotspot connections, according to the
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Sophos just announced its new approach to data protection with the latest release of SafeGuard Encryption. Enabling wide-scale adoption, Sophos is addressing the two biggest issues in encryption, performance and usability, by leveraging native operating system (OS) encryption for better performance, and delivering multi-platform management across all devices and Cloud environments.
Sophos delivers encryption without compromise Read More »
Viacom International Media Networks announced the appointment of Paras Sharma as new Vice President of MTV Brand, Comedy Central & Digital Media Asia. Paras will start the job on March 17 and will be based in Singapore, reporting to Indra Suharjono, Executive Vice-President and Managing Director for Asia.
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The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has been conducting a global research to study which data customer regard as sensitive and which industries enjoy the utmost confidence in privacy protection. The conclusion has been that data protection needs of customers are pretty similar worldwide: Feedback or complaints about brands, products or services are rated as least
The award-winning Sophos Naked Security blog just revealed the Dirty Dozen top spam-relaying nations, as it published the final “Spampionship” league table of 2013.
USA stays top of “Spampionship’s Dirty Dozen Nations” Read More »
Hackers have cracked approximately two million access data from Facebook, Twitter, Google and other accounts, using the so-called Pony botnet for the attack, a network of thousands of hijacked computers.
No chance for hackers: Password managers protect internet accounts Read More »
Silver Peak, a leader in accelerating data over distance, just announced that it has combined the best of site-to-site VPN security and WAN optimisation to deliver Accelerated IPSec.
Silver Peak counters eavesdropping on corporate networks with Accelerated IPSec Read More »
Spam messages with malicious attachments are popular among cybercriminals intending to infect the systems of victims with all kind of malicious software. However, users have become more cautious and more often recognize the evil plan and delete the malicious email attachments immediately – usually .RAR or .ZIP files. Therefore, online gangsters recently started to launch
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