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The news of the patch vulnerabilities Google released last Friday underscores the importance of organizations using a cloud-based solution instead of legacy apps supported by on-premises infrastructure. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google released fixes for five s...

Google logo seen at Googleplex, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. Google and its subsidiary Chronicle are rolling out new automated threat detection capabilities for its Google Cloud platform. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty I...

Securing the cloud requires a different mindset than securing your on-prem infrastructure Enterprise cloud operations are expanding and maturing, but as with any natural maturation, inevitable growing pains must be endured and overcome. As organizations increasingly migrate operations to...

Let's get ready to ruuuummmmmbbbble! In this corner, we have the Justice Department, the prosecutorial arm of the U.S. government and, in its own words, defender of the people. And, in the other corner, we have the darling of Silicon Valley, a self-billed “true American company,” Apple.In what promi...

Let's get ready to ruuuummmmmbbbble! In this corner, we have the Justice Department, the prosecutorial arm of the U.S. government and, in its own words, defender of the people. And, in the other corner, we have the darling of Silicon Valley, a self-billed “true American company,” Apple.In what promi...

Privacy advocates Wednesday lambasted a court order instructing Apple to essentially provide a backdoor into an iPhone used by one of the alleged San Bernardino shooters and threw their support behind the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company, which told customers Saturday night that it would oppose ...

Aaron Swartz's death inspired Rep. Zoe Lofgren to want to reform the federal anti-hacking law, but some security pros worry this would sterilize a potent enforcement weapon, reports Dan Kaplan.Eight days after Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his apartment, the woman he wanted to marry walked to the p...

Web users accused of piracy can soon expect punishment from their internet service providers (ISPs), which may range from educational messages to slower surfing speeds and suspension. Announced in July 2011 by the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), the Copyright Alert System (CAS) has been in a...

An unknown, but significant, number of websites hosted by GoDaddy are feeling the effects of an apparent attack on the company's DNS servers.GoDaddy, a registrar and hosting provider, tweeted: "Status Alert: Hey, all. We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We're working on it." ...

It's no secret that porous data security is a massive and costly problem for the United States economy and individual businesses. In 2012, companies will lose an average 0.6 percent of revenue as a result of poor data security. By 2018, I estimate that figure could swell to 1.6 percent. That's $16 m...