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Waltham, Massachusetts based Bit9 Inc., a provider of endpoint security solutions, announced today that it has raised $12.5 million in funding, bringing the total raised by the company over the past year to $23 million.

ESET today announced the availability of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux, the company's new security solutions for corporate workstations and home computers running Linux.

Guide To Securing Databases Breaks Down Very Complicated Endeavor Into Set of Simple Process Maps, Associated Metrics To Guide Implementation and Define Success

According to a report released today by Commtouch, malware sent via email increased by 400% in the last week of March 2011. Commtouch says this significant increase was detected two weeks after the Rustock botnet was taken down.The rustock botnet was taken down in early March by an effort headed by Microsoft in cooperation with authorities and the legal system. Following the takedown, when the Rustock botnet was no longer cranking out spam by the billions, global spam volumes fell...

Looking to move beyond traditional Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), McAfee today announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, including enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other analysis engines.

While Fraudsters have the Capabilities of Stealing Millions of Credentials, Eventually They Can Cash Out Only as Many Mules as They Have Access to

A new report from independent security testing organization NSS Labs, warns of two major flaws affecting industry leading firewalls, including a sneak attack that can go unnoticed by most organizations.

Adobe announced today that a critical vulnerability (CVE-2011-0611) exists in its Flash Player that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.Adobe said there have been reports that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Word (.doc) file delivered as an email attachment, targeting the Windows platform. Adobe says it isn't aware of any attacks via PDF targeting Adobe...

The Texas Comptroller’s office said today that records containing personally identifying information of about 3.5 million Texans were left exposed on an agency server that was accessible to the public. The records contained the names and mailing addresses of individuals.

HP today announced the availability of its HP ePrint service App for iPhone, enabling iPhone users to unlock the power of the HP ePrint Enterprise solution which lets users print within their enterprise network via HP Managed Print Services. With the launch of the HP ePrint service App, iPhone users can now print emails, presentations, reports, travel documents and more to any networked enterprise printer.

The University of Washington took first place at the 6th National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) held this past weekend in San Antonio, Texas.

Rapid7 and Sourcefire today announced a product integration which enables Sourcefire’s 3D System to integrate active vulnerability data from Rapid7’s active scanning solution, NeXpose Enterprise. The integration enables efficient prioritization of alerts and assessment of malicious intent, giving customers a more effective threat impact analysis, covering a wider range of vulnerabilities across more applications.

Alert Logic, a Houston, Texas based provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, today announced that it has closed a $12.6 million Series E financing.

Smart Grid Security - Utilities Must Address Several Pressing Security Concerns and Establish a Strong Cyber Security Framework, or the Benefits of the Smart Grid Will Remain a Promise, not a Reality.

Congressman Eric Cantor is the target of one man’s rage. Luckily, Norman LeBoon, of Philadelphia, will be behind bars for the next 24 months, followed by three years’ supervised release, for threatening Cantor (7th District Virginia) and a member of his family. LeBoon pleaded guilty in November of this past year to threatening Congressman Cantor and transmitting in interstate commerce a threatening communication.

Reputed innovators, universities crave the cutting edge. They need to keep current. They need to trailblaze. It’s how they can continue to advance academic status and attract fresh talent. For this reason, it makes sense that university IT departments aren’t shy about investigating and participating in the latest and greatest technology trends—including virtualization and cloud computing.

People are Vulnerable. Remind Them to be Conscious of, and Ready for an Attack.

Mocana, a San Francisco based company that focuses on smart device security, recently released a study that tuned into the impact of security threats to non-PC devices.Connected devices like smartphones, smartgrid components, Internet TVs, and medical and automobile electronics already outnumber PCs on the Internet by five to one.

"Spear Phishing" - An Inside Look at Some of the Strategies and Tactics Cybercriminals Use to Conduct Successful Phishing Attacks

How You Can Avoid Email Deliverability Problems due to Shared Email Infrastructure When Outsourcing CRM functions to a SaaS ProviderCRM and Email