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Article | 6/01/2011 Sourcefire acquires Immunet for cloud-based anti-malware
Sourcefire today announced it has acquired start-up Immunet for $21 million, including $17 million paid at closing and $4 million expected to be paid ...
Article | 6/01/2011 Spam volumes drop as Rustock, other botnets go quiet
The infamous Rustock botnet, responsible for almost half of all spam sent last year through its command-and-control system exploiting over a million c...
Article | 17/12/2010 Norton Utilities adds defragmenter tool, other features
Symantec's Norton unit today announced an updated version of its Norton Utilities software, adding a way to defragment and organize files and data tha...
Article | 9/12/2010 ZeuS-style banking Trojans seen as greatest threat to online banking: Survey
A survey of financial services professionals at 70 banks found more than half considered real-time man-in-the-middle attacks from banking Trojans such...
Article | 7/12/2010 Startup launching web application firewall service
Imperva Monday announced its spinoff company Incapsula will start providing cloud-based Web application firewall services early next year with a focus...
Article | 1/12/2010 Fortinet unveils high-speed security blade for Fortigate-5000 chassis
Fortinet today introduced a high-speed security blade that combines a slew of capabilities -- including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, identity-...
Article | 18/11/2010 Dell offering first encryption product
Dell Wednesday announced its first endpoint encryption product, along with the possibility of factory installation on certain Dell PCs.
Article | 17/11/2010 Encryption adoption driven by PCI, fear of cyberattacks
A survey of more than 900 IT managers shows that adoption of encryption in their organizations is being driven by two main factors, anxiety about poss...
Article | 10/11/2010 AVG to acquire Android security firm
AVG Technologies Tuesday announced plans to buy out Israel-based start-up DroidSecurity for an undisclosed price by year-end.
Article | 5/11/2010 Update: Antivirus software didn't help in zero-day malware attack on power plant
When the zero-day attack known as the "Here You Have" virus not long ago hit about 500 PCs at the Salt River Project, a large public power utility and...
Article | 3/11/2010 Antivirus software didn't help utility with malware attack
When the zero-day attack known as the "Here You Have" virus hit about 500 PCs at the Salt River Project, a large public power utility and water suppl...
Article | 29/10/2010 Upgraded retail security standard ignores mobile payments
The second version of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) is being released this afternoon by the organization PCI Security S...
Article | 27/10/2010 Targeted attacks rise, retail sector under siege
Targeted attacks via fraudulent and dangerous e-mail are on the rise, according to a Symantec report published today. These attacks are typically aime...
Article | 22/10/2010 Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon
Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entr...
Article | 19/10/2010 YouTube, e-discovery software among tech tools for war crime investigators
War crimes -- brutal genocide, mass executions, ethnic cleansing, torture -- have spurred international efforts by the United Nations to investigate a...

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