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Article | 17/02/2011 McAfee, Intel subsidiary Wind River join forces to head off future Stuxnet-like attacks

McAfee, which will soon be an Intel subsidiary, and Wind River, which already is one, Wednesday announced they are hardening the security of industria...

Article | 16/02/2011 Vendors race to protect data in cloud security services

At the RSA Conference today, two industry titans laid out what appear to be competing efforts to build an array of <a href="http://www.networkworld.co...

Article | 9/02/2011 Identity theft down but cost skyrockets

Identity theft related to credit and debit cards dropped by 28 per cent in 2010 over 2009 -- but the out-of-pocket cost to victimized consumers rose b...

Article | 5/02/2011 Can 'encrypted blobs' help with secure cloud computing?

Can cloud-based computing be made more secure in the future using what crypto geeks call "fully homomorphic encryption" to send data as "encrypted blo...

Article | 28/01/2011 Stuxnet could have caused "new Chernobyl," Russian ambassador says

The Stuxnet worm attack known to have struck computers at the Russian-built Iranian Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran has serious implications and could h...

Article | 25/01/2011 Appliance automates malware detection

Security firm NetWitness today announced Spectrum, an appliance for enabling automated malware analysis that works in conjunction with the company's t...

Article | 20/01/2011 Mobile device makers react differently to attack info, researcher says

ARLINGTON, Va. --When a researcher at an ethical-hacking firm discovered mobile devices from Apple, Google, RIM and HTC had a flaw in them that would ...

Article | 20/01/2011 Fake GSM base station trick targets iPhones

While his Black Hat DC Conference demonstration was not flawless, a University of Luxembourg student on Wednesday did show that it's possible to trick...

Article | 17/01/2011 Symantec unveils backup and storage appliances

Symantec today introduced its NetBackup and FileStore appliances with an eye toward offering customers choices in whether they want to mix and match s...

Article | 13/01/2011 Survey on PCI: How it's impacting network security

A survey of 500 information technology professionals with responsibility to assure compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standard s...

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...