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Internet Explorer 10 blocks more malware than Chrome or Firefox, test finds

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 is better at blocking malware downloads than rivals Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera thanks to superior URL and application reputation technology, a new test by NSS Labs has found. read more »

Oracle renumbers Java patch updates, confuses users even more

Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, "As if Java updates weren't confusing already." read more »

Sheffield Hallam University improves SSO and application delivery

Sheffield Hallam University is saving up to £20,000 a year and eliminating "tens of hours of downtime every month" with an improved single sign-on system and application delivery controller. read more »

Facebook attacked with credential-harvesting malware

Dorkbot variant infection unusual because the criminals exploited a flaw in the file-sharing site MediaFire to spread the malware read more »

Ipsos MORI denies selling EE customers' personal data to third parties

Analytics firm Ipsos MORI has refuted the suggestion that it is selling EE customers' personal data its clients, claiming that all information is anonymised and aggregrated, and cannot be connected to individual customers. read more »

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Adobe's first CSO: Hosted services security is top priority

Adobe Systems has appointed Brad Arkin, the company's senior director of security for products and services, to become its first CSO. With a mature product security program already in place, the top priorities for Adobe's new security chief are to strengthen the security of the company's hosted services and its internal infrastructure. read more »

Ten tips to win security programme funding

Ask any cyber security specialist what their biggest challenge is, and you will get a variety of answers -- ranging from strengthening network security, to managing internal threats, to protecting against cyber espionage. But upon further investigation, you may be surprised to learn that for manythe biggest challenge is simply getting the funding necessary to carry out a security programme. read more »

Security Manager's Journal: A little housecleaning

Our manager finds the time and opportunity to cross a few nagging items off of his to-do list. read more »

Three simple steps to determine risk tolerance

For Chief Information Security Offiers, in addition to deciding what policies, processes, or technology an organisation should have in place, an even more significant challenge is successfully negotiating disputed risk issues. read more »

Cyber confusion at the heart of Government

Last week the Conservative chairman of the Defence Select Committee took the extraordinary step of writing to the Government to blast its response to the Committee’s recent report on cyber security. James Arbuthnot said the Government exaggerated the amount of money going to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s Cyber and Influence Centre, was not acting quickly enough to secure military supply chains and were basically passing the civil cyber security buck. read more »

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