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Insider snooping on the rise: IT security survey

Security Patch Palooza: Microsoft Issues 31 Big Fixes; Govt 'obsession' killed national access card
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Insider snooping on the rise: IT security survey

Over a third of IT staff admit to abusing admin rights to snoop at confidential information like colleagues' salary details and redundancy lists, according to a new study. Read full story

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It may be June, but Microsoft techies haven't turned their focus to summer vacations yet. Instead, company security engineers have been busy prepping 10 major software patches that fix 31 important security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products. Eighteen of the vulnerabilities are classified by the company as "critical fixes."

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