Masking is considered to be a critical technology in data privacy protection. Generally speaking, it increases security of a corporate database when it is required to share it with out-source companies, off-shore partners, quality assurance or development departments, etc. In simple words, data masking functionality allows production data in a database be safely and freely…
Nigerian princes emailing the elderly for wire transfers and credit card info are no longer the main online security threat. Malware has gotten better at hiding and tricking you or a company’s servers into revealing bits of personal info that can be bought and sold. This is no longer a paranoid scare tactic — this is how…
If you’ve been debating about changing your e-mail or social networking account password, now would be a great time to make the switch. According to the Wisconsin-based firm called Hold Security, a Russian cyber-crime ring has recently acquired about 1.2 billion usernames and passwords from over 420,000 websites all around the globe. The identities of the affected websites remain unknown so…