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In a number of cases, Internet-attached private systems are not always maintained in an up-to-date state and, as such, are vulnerable to exploitation by mischief-makers and, of course, their cybercriminal peers.

With summer in full swing, employees across the country are heading out on vacation; likely topping their list of items to pack, mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, Androids and BlackBerries.

Varonis looks at the implications for organisations that get it wrongand gives advice on how to protect your information in a digital world.

What Happened?

On Sunday July 10th, 2011 the News of the World published it last edition.  This paper had been publishing for 168 years and was the top selling Sunday newspaper in the UK. The closure came following revelations of how the newspaper had allegedly obtained personal information using illegal methods such as phone hacking.  What does this teach us about privacy and information governance?

In this media alert, Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO on Trusteer  1 in 20 predicting Android mobiles and iPhones will be infected by financial malware and Trojans within the next 12 months and Androids security architecture is not currently up to the challenge.  The Alert covers Problems with Android phones and also iPhones/iPads:

Intro: In today's fast-changing world of security threats, the need to raise the security bar - by enhancing an IT platform's ability to detect and prevent malicious code from `breaking through' the network perimeter - has never been greater.

But how do you tackle the process in a modern IT department? Idappcom's CEO Ray Bryant provides some thoughts ….

Andy Cordial, managing director of secure storage systems specialist Origin Storage, explains why mobile computing users need to raise their security game if we are to avoid a series of smartphone and tablet computer driven data breaches hitting the headlines...

Although identified by Gartner as a top ten IT strategy for 2011, cloud technology has yet to realise its full potential in corporate IT departments - the promise of increased flexibility and scalability provided by the cloud is offset by ongoing concerns about the security of corporate data. So it is ironic that the cloud represents one of the most exciting and promising new channels for the development and use of anti-malware software.

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