Following on from the DDos attacks on US Banks, Imperva have posted up an interesting blog which shows the origins of these attacks which have stemmed from malware being planted into webservers.
- YVONNE ESKENZI
- InfoSecurity
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Saturday, 29 November 2025
Do security hires put a company at greater risk?
New York, NY: Interfor’s Physical Security Consulting Group is now offering outsourced CSO, CISO and CIO programs that can be custom tailored for the needs of small to mid-sized companies across all industries.
- Stephen Braswell
- InfoSecurity
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BRACKNELL, UK: A new type of secret saboteur is emerging in Britain’s workplace, according to research announced this week. Over one quarter of UK employees have deliberately sabotaged or been tempted to sabotage their company mobile device and 14% of workers have actually become “device destructors”, according to research commissioned by Panasonic Toughbook. Sales and marketing and IT managers are the most likely offenders in the workplace and the key reason for the abuse is the embarrassment of using an out of date device or frustration with their laptop or mobile.
- PETER BECK
- Case Studies
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Redwood City, CA and Reading, UK: IGEL Technology, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of thin clients, and DigitalPersona, Inc., a trusted partner for biometric identity verification solutions, have announced they have integrated their technologies to allow the use of fingerprint biometrics as an authentication credential to virtual applications hosted on a Citrix XenApp server.
- PAUL SMITH
- InfoSecurity
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