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While the company declined to comment on specifics related to any IPO plans, it’s no secret that Palo Alto Networks has an IPO in its sights.
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A study from Barracuda Networks, Facebook: Fake Profiles vs. Real Users, Barracuda researchers analyzes a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts to identify key differences between average real user accounts and fake accounts created by attackers and fraudsters.
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Recent research shows that at least 250 of all Fortune 500 companies and 27 out of 55 major government entities had at least one computer or router that was infected with DNSChanger in early 2012.
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Netherlands-based AVG Technologies today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 8.0 million ordinary shares at a priced to at $16.00 per share, an offering that in total will raise approximately $128 million.
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All BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry 7 and BlackBerry 7.1 benefit from the FIPS 140-2 certification recognized by the U.S. and Canadian governments.
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Solera Networks, a provider of network forensics and network monitoring solutions, announced today that it has secured $20 million in Series D financing lead by Intel Capital.
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Fifteen companies, including PayPal, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, have united to launch DMARC, a blueprint for a global, Internet-wide counter attack on phishing
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Tablets were the hot topic for much of 2011, Good Technology says, but the mid-October launch of the iPhone 4S sparked smartphone activations across Good’s customer base to spike.
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Dallas, Texas-based cloud hosting provider, Firehost, announced the opening of two new European data centers located in London and Amsterdam.
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Twitter has acquired Dasient Inc., a provider of anti-malware solutions for websites and ad networks.
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Sourcefire introduced a new malware protection and analysis solution designed to work alongside traditional endpoint security solutions and help discover malware threats that may have been missed by existing endpoint defenses.
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New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas and Electric disclosed that they have suffered from a data breach, including unauthorized access to customer records which include customer names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth.
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Sunday announced that it has named Thorsten Heins as President and Chief Executive Officer of the struggling mobile device maker.
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As Anonymous launched the “largest attack ever on government and music industry sites” downloads of the popular LOIC DoS attack tool have spiked.
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In response to actions taken by the Justice Department against operators of Megaupload.com, Anonymous launched what it says will be its “largest attack ever on government and music industry sites.”
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U.S. authorities have arrested a Chinese computer programmer working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on charges that he stole software code while working on a project used by the United States Treasury.
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Oracle delivered its first Critical Patch Update of 2012, which included a total of 78 fixes across a wide range of Oracle products. The update also marked the first time the MySQL database software has been part of Oracle's CPU process.
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Palo Alto Networks has released its semi-annual “Application Usage and Risk Report”, a report that digs into employee activity and the types of applications in use on corporate networks, and what it means for enterprise security.
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Symantec announced on Monday that it has acquired LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based email archiving, email compliance, email discovery and email continuity solutions, for approximately $115 million.
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Fortinet introduced three new appliances to its line of Web application firewalls designed to address the needs of a range of businesses ranging from mid-sized organizations up through large enterprises and service providers.
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CoverItLive, a live-blogging platform owned by Demand Media, has acknowledged that it has been the victim of a cyber attack and that certain information has been accessed without authorization.
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In an email to Zappos employees on Sunday, CEO Tony Tony Hsie asked employees to set aside 20 minutes of their time to read about the breach and what communications would be sent to its over 24 million customers.
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Denis Maslennikov, a mobile security expert from Kaspersky Lab, has discovered what he says is the first IRC bot for Android he has seen.
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AVG Technologies has filed an IPO Registration Statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a proposed initial public offering.
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Splunk, a fast growing provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from a diverse set of sources, has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC and is soon to go public.
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- With an IPO In Sight, Palo Alto Networks Names New CFO
- Google Adds New Layer to Android Security
- Study Analyzes Fake Facebook Profiles vs. Real Users
- VeriSign Attackers Swiped Data from Servers, Management Left in the Dark
- Half of Fortune 500 and Government Agencies Infected With DNSChanger Malware
- It's Time to Open Our Eyes to Advanced Malware Protection
- AVG Technologies Set for $128 Million IPO Thursday
- Wave Systems Launches Cloud-Based Encryption Service
- Threat Intelligence Market to Reach $905 Million by 2014, Says IDC
- BlackBerry 7 Gets Government Security Stamp
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