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Strategies and Best Practices for Deploying a Load Balancer for Email

Kaspersky Lab, in its most recent spam report for May 2011, revealed that across its user base, Russia has taken the number one position in terms of the quantity of malware detected in emails by antivirus software. According to Kaspersky’s data, Russia overtook the United States, where the quantity of malware infected emails received fell by 3.5 percent. The most widespread malware distributed via email was the Trojan-Spy program Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen.

Symantec this week published "A Window Into Mobile Device Security: Examining the security approaches employed in Apple's iOS and Google's Android", an in-depth, technical evaluation of Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile platforms, to help organizations understand the security risks of deploying these devices in the enterprise.

The folks over at Veracode have analyzed the recent PlayStation Network Breach and turned it into the infographic featured below. The infographic highlights events from the initial DDoS attacks and first major breach, through the many subsequent discoveries that resulted in a drop in Sony's stock price from $36.36 at the beginning of the year, down to $24.28 on June 20th.

According to new research from IDC, worldwide revenue for servers deployed to public clouds will reach $3.6 billion in 2015 while private cloud server revenue will balloon to $5.8 billion.

Playing in the Shadows: Remaining Stealthy in the Underground is Becoming Ever Simpler

Following a massive breach in late March that exposed the personal information of millions of users, Epsilon, the world's largest permission based email marketing services company, today shared information on security enhancements that the company has implemented in response to the high profile security breach.

AVG Enables Increased Secure Cloud Experience for Amazon EC2 Users

A former vice president in Citigroup, Inc.’s treasury finance department has been arrested on bank fraud charges arising from his embezzlement of more than $19 million.

VeriSign today announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) renewed the company's contract to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the .net registry for another six years.More than half of the world’s domains rely on Verisign’s infrastructure, and the company has held management of the .com/.net infrastructure for over 12 years. VeriSign also manages two of the world's 13 Internet root servers, a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net, considered national IT assets by the U.S. Federal government.

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Council’s Virtualization Special Interest Group has released new guidance pertaining to virtual environments. Any organization that accepts and manages credit cardholder data within a virtual environment must understand this guidance and act accordingly. It will influence how auditors assess virtual environments and whether these environments comply with PCI requirements.

Data Breach Exposes Highly Selective Group that can be used in Targeted Phishing Attacks on DoD/Government/Defense Contractors

Kaspersky Lab today announced its first security solution designed exclusively for Android tablets. The new solution, Kaspersky Tablet Security, helps protect tablet users with real-time protection against viruses, spyware, Trojans, bots, and more.

Cellcrypt, a provider of encrypted voice calling solutions for mobile phones, today announced that it has launched Cellcrypt Mobile™ for iPhone®, a version of its encrypted voice calling application that runs on Apple® devices running iOS and operates over Wi-Fi™, GSM, CDMA and satellite networks. Today’s announcement follows the release of the Android version which the company released back on June 14th.

The world is creating massive amounts of data. How much? According to the results of the EMC-sponsored IDC Digital Universe study released today, 1.8 zettabytes of data will be created and/or replicated in 2011, revealing that the world's information is more than doubling every two years—a rate faster than Moore's Law.

Universal Secure Registry LLC (USR), a mobile payment security technology and identity authentication company founded by Kenneth Weiss, the inventor of the technology behind the SecurID tokens now owned by RSA, today announced licensing availability of its patented electronic wallet technology to third parties including credit card companies, wireless carriers, banks, retailers and others.

Symantec today announced the latest version of its high availability solution for VMware virtual environments helps customers virtualize their business critical applications. The latest version of Symantec ApplicationHA extends the existing capabilities for disaster recovery with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager integration and provides a dashboard to monitor and manage hundreds of applications within VMware vCenter Server.

Are You using the Right Application Assessment Tools in the Right Place at the Right Time?

Lulzsec, the hacking group that quickly rose to fame over the past two months after hacking and exposing many corporations, governments, and individuals, says it’s calling it quits. In a post today, the group wrote, “Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love.”

Identity management startup OneLogin, announced today that it has secured a $1.5M series A round of funding from Charles River Ventures, an existing investor in the company.