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Everyone loves to get something for free. Over the past few weeks thousands of people have not let a little thing like copyright law stop them from enjoying at least 5 current and soon to be released pirated films from Sony Pictures and made available for free download on file sharing sites. Joining SONY Pirate […]

November 6th is upon us, which in the United States means it is Election Day. And it isn’t just any Election Day but for the position of President of the United States. For months on end the 2012 Presidential Campaign has had few topics in which the two candidates actually agree on. In what has been […]

Understanding Endpoint Security Management Systems Organizations contain sensitive or important data. This data is usually accessed by their respective employees using several devices. Some of which might be company-owned and others employee-owned. Whatever the case, protecting this enterprise data across various devices becomes important for them. To accomplish this, enterprises employ what is known as endpoint […]

Fix Critical Security Vulnerabilities OpenSSL, the popular open source security implementation of the SSL protocol, has released updates patching nine issues that including several critical security vulnerabilities. This includes issues that can be caused by a denial-of-service (DOS) security attack. A DOS floods a server with messages to consume large amounts of memory or leak security information. Critical […]

Another day, another high profile UPS data breach! UPS data became the latest company this week to announce a UPS data breach of customer cardholders and UPS data branch personal information. Fortunately, this may be the most limited of the recent string of UPS data breaches because it impacted only 51 of its 4,400 UPS […]

Hackers Find Fatal Flaw Of Fingerprint Security in Apple Touch ID Thwarted  Update: check the latest version of Xcitium’s free mobile security app     When Apple announced the Touch ID technology that rolled out with the new iPhone 5, it sounded like science fiction. Your phone can now be secured by your own fingerprint. […]

Xcitium Discovers Equifax Executives’ Passwords For Sale On The Dark Web – Following the Equifax data breach revelations, the Xcitium Threat Intelligence Lab undertook a Dark Web analysis on the company and discovered that more than 388 records of Equifax user and employee endpoint data is available for sale. This data includes username, title, password and login […]

If you happen not to have been a frequent reader of the Blog contributions I’ve published within the Social Media section of Xcitium’s Web site (and picked up on Xcitium’s Facebook page), here’s your chance to catch up. – Selectively. At the start of each month, I provide one Blog that simply offers readers the […]

Hackers Dark Side Of Tech Revolution: When I read about hackers and cyber criminals I often think of the old TV show Get Smart. After vanquishing a villain, Agent Maxwell Smart would often recite a lament that typically went “If only he had used his genius for good and niceness instead of evil.” If only! […]