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BlackBerry, Microsoft and other heavy hitters drop product announcements at RSA Conference

Howard Solomon

Published: February 25th, 2020

Dell Technologies sells RSA to Symphony Technology Group consortium for over $2 billion

For now, it's business as usual, but Dell Technologies today announced that it was selling its cybersecurity arm RSA for $2.075 billion to a consortium of investors led by Symphony Technology Group, a

Published on: February 19th, 2020 Alex Coop
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Hashtag Trending – Facebook’s new Stories features; Microsoft Threat Experts offering; add some DPTH to your photos

Facebook adds new features to Stories, Microsoft offers its security team up for rent, and one trick to improve your Instagram game. Trending on Facebook, the social network has released some new features

Published on: March 1st, 2019 Brian Jackson
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Mobile fraud losses ‘staggering’: Report

As the number of people buying products with smartphones, tablets, and laptops increases, so is the amount of mobile fraud. That’s the not surprising conclusion of a new study financed by two security

Published on: February 5th, 2015 Howard Solomon
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How Cryptolocker and ransomware take data hostage

From “software leases” to Cryptolocker, ransomware has been around for a while – but criminals are now taking victims’ data hostage as a way to make money, moving to mobile devices and other

Published on: June 19th, 2014 Candice So
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Avoiding data breaches is almost impossible – so now what?

Don’t try to avoid data breaches altogether – that’s a waste of time. Nowadays, dealing with a breach is now simply part of being a security professional. Instead, focus on mitigating the damage

Published on: March 3rd, 2014 Candice So

How the cloud can improve security: Courtot

SAN FRANCISCO - After the warnings about the cloud and its potential threats to security, it seems counter-intuitive to say the cloud can actually help businesses shore up the security of their data.

Published on: February 27th, 2014 Candice So

10 security concerns for the public cloud: Russinovich

SAN FRANCISCO - It’s not news that businesses are moving more and more of their data to the cloud. But even as cloud storage and computing have hit the mainstream, there are a

Published on: February 27th, 2014 Candice So

One shared database in security’s future: Trilling

SAN FRANCISCO – With all the weekly headlines about new malware, dangerous threats, and unforeseen attack vectors, it might be easy to believe that hackers will soon be the victors of the cybersecurity

Published on: February 27th, 2014 Candice So

RSA keynotes tackle NSA allegations out of the gate

Updated on Feb. 26, 2014 at 7:45am ET with analyst comments from Anton Chuvakin of Gartner Inc. There’s been a lot of talk about RSA Security Inc.’s involvement with the U.S. National Security

Published on: February 25th, 2014 Candice So

A look ahead at next week’s RSA conference

With the RSA conference kicking off Feb. 24 in San Francisco, there’s a lot of buzz around what may – or may not – be revealed during one of the cyber security industry’s

Published on: February 21st, 2014 Candice So

Securing your database is about more than just securing your network

If you run a business harbouring sensitive information within a database – anything from intellectual property, to digital cash, to your customers’ data – you need to secure it. It sounds like such

Published on: January 21st, 2014 Candice So
What you should know about the RSA SecurID breach

What you should know about the RSA SecurID breach

RSA's disclosure last Thursday that it has suffered a sophisticated cyberattack in which attackers obtained some type of information about RSA's SecurID product for two-factor authentication is prompting a variety of suggestions in

Published on: March 21st, 2011 Ellen Messmer
Five ways to stay innovative – and secure – in a down economy

Five ways to stay innovative – and secure – in a down economy

In the current economic downturn, many companies are cutting costs and security expenses are frequently part of the equation when considering where to save or spend money. New research released Monday by RSA,

Published on: February 11th, 2009 Joan Goodchild
Terrible Trojan steals 500,000 bank account, credit card logons

Terrible Trojan steals 500,000 bank account, credit card logons

A sophisticated cybercrime group that has maintained an especially devious Trojan horse for nearly three years has stolen the log-ons to more than 300,000 online bank accounts and almost as many credit cards

Published on: November 3rd, 2008 Gregg Keizer