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Jabulani Leffall

Jabulani Leffall is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Financial Times of London, Investor's Business Daily, The Economist and CFO Magazine, among others.
Digital Government

Top IT security concerns voiced in survey

Network breaches represent the foremost nightmare scenario for IT pros, according to a new industry report by Amplitude Research, which recorded the responses of 353 network or systems administrators.

Digital Government

US IT pros concerned about cloud security

Nearly half of U.S. IT professionals surveyed believe that the risks of cloud computing outweigh its benefits.

Digital Government

Hackers attack Google using Microsoft security hole

Microsoft's security team confirmed that the hackers had used the first zero-day flaw found in Internet Explorer to try to steal information from Google and other companies.

Digital Government

Internet Explorer users face new zero-day threat

Just before Thanksgiving Day, Microsoft released a security advisory on a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7 browsers, based on "new public reports."

Digital Government

Which browser is the riskiest? The answer may surprise you.

Survey assesses browser vulnerabilities, Web servers and other risk factors.

Modernization

Microsoft technology targets Internet anonymity

Microsoft researchers have unveiled an anti-hacking concept that can help track hackers or malicious content to origin servers.