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VirusBulletin.com: Cyber insurance, is it for you?

This article was published first in Virus Bulletin. Sorin Mustaca looks at how companies trading online can insure the risks they run. Throughout its 25 year history, Virus Bulletin has regularly published technical analyses of the latest threats and defensive methods, and will continue to do so (with the material now available free of charge). We […]

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How to have an overview of the IT Security News posts

The website ITSecurityNews.org publishes between 15-100 posts per day from the sources mentioned under SOURCES. IT Security News can be obtained on these channels: – Website: http://www.itsecuritynews.info and RSS feed http://www.itsecuritynews.info/feed – Google+:  https://google.com/+ItsecuritynewsInfo – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ITSecNewsInfo – Twitter: https://twitter.com/It_securitynews   If you want, you can even subscribe to the posts via email: Just subscribe on the page where you see this: SUBSCRIBE TO […]

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Facebook, WhatsApp and the new Internet bubble

I was reading the great news about the 19 billion USD which Facebook paid for WhatsApp. I want to underline, that 1 year ago, Google wanted to buy it for… 1 billion USD: http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/08/as-google-acquisition-rumors-grow-is-whatsapp-really-worth-a-billion-dollars/ And in December 2013, http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/12/19/whatsapp-hits-400-million-users-wants-to-stay-independent/ WhatsApp has “no plans to sell, IPO, exit, [get new] funding,” Koum said. “Despite the fact that we’re […]

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When the Internet fails on you – IFTTT.com failure

My entire automatic posting on ITSecurityNews.info which is retweeted on @ITSecurityNews, @SorinMustaca and @sorinm_security is built on IFTTT.com. Well, this is why you didn’t get some tweets on time: Last night at approximately 10:00pm PST much of the work IFTTT does in the background stopped due to an issue with one of our backend services. Our monitoring […]

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Information security in the Social Media age

A company doesn’t exist anymore if it is not present on at least a few social media platforms. Depending on the area they are active, they could go for average consumer or for highly skilled professionals. In order to address their customers, they need to use one or another social media platform. However, the tendency […]