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Experts Highlight Top Hidden Exposures That Can Lead to Data Breach PORTLAND, Ore., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- It's not a plot on a TV show. Hidden vulnerabilities lie in everyday activities that can expose personal information and lead to data breach, including buying gas with a credit card or wearing a pacemaker. Every transaction and health record is now collected, categorized, sorted, and analyzed--and can be hacked. Microcomputers that control aspects of everyday life--from...

The new Information Asset Risk Assessment offers financial institutions the ability to manage information assets and conduct specific risk assessments in accordance with information security regulatory guidance. Lubbock, TX (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 CoNetrix, the leading information security and technology solutions provider for financial institutions, announces the expansion of its tandem Risk Assessment to include Information Asset Risk Assessments. As part of the tandem Security and...

2013 Global Information Security Workforce Study Confirms Software Security is Top Concern, but Industry Response is Still Lacking Clearwater, FL., U.S.A. (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 (ISC)2® (“ISC-squared”), the world’s largest not-for-profit information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP® and CSSLP®, today released additional findings of its sixth bi-annual Global Information Security Workforce Study (“GISWS”). Conducted in partnership with Booz...

Enables Organizations to Remediate While Minimizing Impact on Development Teams San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Denim Group, the leading secure software development company, today announced that ThreadFix, its open source vulnerability management platform, was chosen by CSO Magazine’s Bill Brenner as one of the top 20 free tools to help organizations increase the security of their IT infrastructure by information and network security professionals in today’s industry....

BestHomeAlarmSystemsReviews.com releases their reviews of the top home security system companies in the nation and provides insight as to what consumers are looking for in a home security system. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 BestHomeAlarmSystemsReviews.com, the home security systems reviews site, recently published the results of their 2013 home security systems reviews. Each year BestHomeAlarmSystemsReviews.com analyzes dozens of home security systems companies and rates them on...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A zero-day flaw has been found in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), a four year old version of their popular web browser. Security experts and Microsoft alike have pointed out this flaw which has been found to be used by Chinese hackers to target US nuclear researchers in watering-hole attacks. According to security experts at Invincea, the Department of Labor (DoL) was compromised on May 1 to redirect visitors to a website...

Serious Website Vulnerabilities Continue to Decrease; Training and Accountability May Be Key SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today announced the 2013 edition of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. This is the first time an industry report has correlated vulnerability data from tens of thousands of websites from more than 650 organizations, continuously monitored by WhiteHat Sentinel, with software...

GENEVA, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- High-Tech Bridge, a leading Swiss information security company recognized as one of the market leaders and best service providers in the ethical hacking industry by Frost & Sullivan in 2012, is pleased to announce that sales of its new web application security service ImmuniWeb(R) will start on the 15th of May 2013. ImmuniWeb(R) [https://www.htbridge.com/immuniweb ] is a next-generation web application security assessment solution with...

Top Mobile Security Experts and Practitioners will Share Proven Approaches for Securing BYOD BETHESDA, Md., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute today announced the agenda for its second annual Mobile Device Security Summit taking place May 30 - 31, 2013 in Anaheim, CA. This year's summit will address some of the most challenging mobile security issues with a special focus on bring your own device (BYOD) and mobile vulnerabilities and exploits. Top security...

Zero-days progress into attack kits before patches are available CUPERTINO, Calif., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Trend Micro's (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) Q1 2013 Security Roundup Report, the company's researchers raised the alarm about zero-day vulnerabilities in addition to concerns about the recent concentrated attack in South Korea. Collectively, these events demonstrate that zero-day vulnerabilities remain a threat while attack innovations are growing in...