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Web Applications under attack every two minutes, Imperva finds

Study of 10 million web application attacks shows automated attacks can peak at 25,000 an hour

Imperva, the data security leader, released today the results of the Imperva 2011 Web Application Attack Report (WAAR), which revealed that web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every two minutes. The WAAR, created as a part of Imperva’s ongoing Hacker Intelligence Initiative, offers insight into actual malicious web application attack traffic over a period of six months, December 2010 through May 2011.

: CLAIRE HOJEM; InfoSecurity; Posted On Tuesday, 26 July 2011 17:08

SecurEnvoy develops technology to tackle the session cookie menace

SecurEnvoy has developed a security technology that solves the problem of the session cookie, a hacking technique used by cybercriminals to hijack a users' online session that any browser can be innocently subjected to.

: YVONNE ESKENZI; InfoSecurity; Posted On Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:58

Lieberman Software, Yubico partner to deliver stronger security in the wake of RSA token breach

Partnership provides improved countermeasures against threats like token breaches, key logging, social engineering and other attacks

A new generation of regulatory compliance rules mandates the use of multi-factor authentication to ensure that only authorized IT staff are able to access an organization’s powerful privileged accounts.

: BILL BOYLE; InfoSecurity; Posted On Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:46

‘Pharaoh’ of Sudan turns Sudan’s Southern Kordofan region to a field of blood...massacres them in hundreds!

Thousands of people displaced by conflict in Kordofan State have sought refuge in an area secured by UNMIS. Source: UN Security Council.

Vigilance can authoritatively report that as the ethnic cleansing of Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir continues unabated, United Nations human rights experts last expressed alarm over reports of mass killings in the Southern Kordofan region of Sudan, appealed for an immediate cessation of the violence and called for an urgent investigation.