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Will Infected Macs Dampen Apple's Stock?

April’s reappearance of a Flashback variant—the most recent being Flashback.C, which masqueraded as an update to Adobe Flash Player and discovered last fall—is too recent to have any impact on this week’s Apple earnings reports and stock reaction, but one wonders if this crack in the oft-cited “more secure platform” that Apple has enjoyed will change in the future.

Eye on Messaging
In an effort to bring the messaging industry even closer together, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), which held its 24th General Meeting in San Francisco last week, announced a name...
Eye on Messaging
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently stated that we might be able to keep our shoes on while going through airport security checkpoints in the near future. It seems there is...
Messaging experts expend a great deal of time and energy following trends and offering analysis. The latest report from Symantec states that June spam levels are currently at the lowest level since...
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you actually responded to an online offer for an herbal supplement or an enhancement drug? As any active emailer knows, there is a relentless tide of spam...
Eye on Messaging
As I mentioned last week in the article National Internet Safety (and Security?) Month, MAAWG, and Passwords, June is National Internet Safety Month. This week a study was released that examines the...
Attackers are no longer targeting web and email servers, contends Zscaler, instead they are attacking enterprises from the inside out, by first compromising end-user systems and then leveraging them...
On May 19, 2011 the ITU , the United Nations agency for information and communications technologies, cemented new global partnerships designed to make cyberspace a safer, more secure place to be...
With millions of users adopting Facebook and Twitter, it is not unexpected to see cybercriminals moving towards the mediums as a rich source of users to target. This week Fortinet, a network security...
Network Forensics (NF) has matured in recent years to play a critical role in defending against the increasing number of advanced threats. Previously, NF focused on basic network packet capture to...
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