The top five security stories of 2010

Stuart Sumner
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The cyber threat continued to evolve throughout 2010 but what were the most significant stories of the year?

This was an important year for IT security, with many new developments that changed not only the way we need to approach security, but the nature of the threat it's designed to defeat. Security ...

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