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Vigilance can authoritatively report that UBM Live, organisers of IFSEC, the world’s leading annual security event, has announced the finalists for the IFSEC 2011 Security Industry Awards.
Idappcom last week released a second update to its malicious traffic library this month due to a marked increase in the number of attacks targeting industrial control systems. This led to a second release update to Idappcom’s traffic library this month which contained 50 attacks alone pertaining to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Reports last week disclosed how the iPhone keeps a record of your physical location. A worrying scenario which Rob Rachwald, Director of Security Strategy for Imperva warns; “has deeper implications, than may first appear, as hackers could exploit your movements.”
Imperva, the leader in data security, and the Ponemon Institute, last week made public the results of their second study on the impact of the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). The 2011 PCI DSS Compliance Trends Study surveyed 670 US and multinational IT security practitioners on how efforts to comply with PCI-DSS affect an organization’s data protection and security. This year’s report shows that while the majority of PCI compliant organizations suffer fewer or no breaches, most practitioners still do not perceive PCI-DSS to have a positive impact on data security.
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