Microsoft is working on its own file-sharing application, code-named Avalanche. Unveiled at a Microsoft open house by its United Kingdom researchers in Cambridge, the project is the company's own take ...

As many organizations still grapple with adopting and enforcing acceptable cloud use policies, shadow IT instances continue to rise. It's forcing IT security to fight risky apps like a game of whack-a ...

The recent announcement by the FTC that sensitive information from nearly 100 organizations had been compromised through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks underscores the risks of this technology.

A recent report from Ponemon Institute shines light on the lack of oversight IT security leaders have over the file sharing practices within their own company. Based on a survey sponsored by ...

With the Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committeetaking a fresh look at the privacy and security risks posed byusing LimeWire and other peer-to-peer file-sharing applications, nowis a ...

There are a variety of reasons you may want to block ports on your router in order to stop file sharing. Whether you are worried that individuals on your computer network are using file sharing to ...

Attempting to deny the undeniable has become the accepted practice for many file-sharing companies especially as it relates to the ability to filter. As the former CTO of one of those companies, I ...

File-sharing applications and other programs that access a transmission control protocol/Internet protocol network use ports to route traffic to a destination. Most routers, however, use a firewall to ...

A lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County, Calif., Superior Court alleges that Comcast Corp. intentionally interferes with Internet file sharing and blocks or slows some applications to a “mere ...

File-sharing through the dozens of software piracy mills on the Internet and well-known peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa, Morpheus, iMesh, eDonkey, Gnutella, LimeWire and Grokster accounts for ...

Eric Trexler joined Forcepoint in January 2018 as vice president for global governments and critical infrastructure sales. In this role, Trexler is responsible for all domestic and international sales ...

Network access control (NAC) is saving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $40,000 per year by keeping students from illegally using peer-to-peer file-sharing applications. When the school ...