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YouGov survey finds women are more likely to reveal security passwords than men

London: A YouGov survey, commissioned by an IT training company QA, has found that women are more likely than men to fail basic security protocols for keeping their password confidential in the workplace.

: ROSIE ANDERSON; InfoSecurity; Posted On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 10:36

ManageEngine launches privileged password management software for managed service providers

LONDON, UK: ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the immediate Beta availability of MSP Edition of its Privileged Password Management Software Password Manager Pro. The company offers an advanced look of the industry-first solution, developed specifically to address the unique privileged identity management challenges faced by Managed Service Providers (MSPs) at Infosecurity Europe, at Earls Court, London, UK between April 23-25, 2013.

: Sarah Boulton; Exhibitions; Posted On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:49

Research reveals people take care to protect data, but forget to get basics right

London, UK: Research conducted by Varonis, the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, has found that the vast majority of people expect businesses to protect their data - despite the high number of security breaches reported. The study found that while most respondents have good security practices, they still engage in high-risk behaviours that could enable hackers to breach their data.

: REGINE HARTMANN; InfoSecurity; Posted On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:42

Lancope exposes threat capitals of the world

London (UK): The StealthWatch Labs Intelligence Center (SLIC) - Lancope’s research initiative which tracks emerging threat information from around the world, today revealed that 30% the world’s active botnet command and control servers are actually based in the US! This is three times higher than the second and third most active countries – China (9%) and Russia (8%) respectively. Yet, when it comes to Internet scanning for victims to target with brute force attacks or exploit their activity, it is China (44%) that is the most active followed by Japan (7%), USA (6%) and South Korea (5%). When looking at Backscatter activity (Victims of DDOS attacks), again it is the US that tops the list at 23% followed by Taiwan (17%), Japan (10%) and South Korea (8%). Interestingly, of all the European countries, it is only Germany that features at the top of these lists, in fifth place for both botnet command and Backscatter (6% and 5% respectively). The UK’s only appearance in the top 10 list is for botnet command and control in sixth place at 4%. The reason the US and the other countries feature so highly is to be expected as threats often originate from inside large legitimate networks as a result of systems that have been compromised. Under the remote control of botnet operators or other nefarious external parties, these internal systems spread infections, steal data and wreak havoc on enterprise resources.