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CellTrust, a provider of secure messaging and secure applications for mobile phones, announced that it is partnering with NewNet, a telecom infrastructure solutions company with deployments in more than 60 countries, in creating an integrated Short Message Service Center (SMSC) and Secure SMS solution for mobile operators worldwide.

Bredolab and Koobface Botnet Takedowns Lead to Lower Spam Levels in November Fortinet’s November 2010 Threat Landscape Report shows a 12 percent reduction in global spam in November after Dutch authorities took down the Bredolab network by taking more than 140 servers offline.

Palo Alto Networks' CEO Agrees to Resign Due to Differences in Leadership Philosophy Palo Alto Networks, the company best known for its next generation firewalls, is in search of a new CEO. The company announced that “due to differences in leadership philosophy,” the Board of Directors and CEO and President Lane Bess have agreed that he will resign from his position. Bess has served as CEO of Palo Alto Networks since July 2008.

Security & Compliance Strategy - What is the Right Approach?

Research In Motion (RIM) announced today that the latest version of its operating system, BlackBerry 6, is now FIPS 140-2 certified. BlackBerry 6 debuted on the BlackBerry Torch smartphone earlier this year.

Internet Routing - The Internet's leading architects have considered the rapid growth and fragmentation of core routing tables one of the most significant threats to the long-term stability and scalability of the Internet

VeriSign today launched a cloud based service to ease the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).

Ernst & Young LLP announced today that Grady Summers has joined the firm as its Americas Leader for Information Security Program Management services.

SRA International, a provider of technology and consulting services and Mobile Active Defense (M.A.D), a smartphone security company, have partnered in order to provide security solutions for smartphone and tablet devices to SRA’s government and commercial clients.

Acquisition Helps Red Hat Move Ahead with Technology to Deploy, Manage and auto-scale Applications in The Cloud Red Hat today announced that it has acquired Makara, a Redwood City, California based developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud.

New Endpoint Security Product Developers' Consortium to Improve Critical Class of Security ProductsICSA Labs, the vendor-neutral IT security testing and certification of division of Verizon Business, announced it has founded the “Endpoint Security Consortium” to help improve enterprise endpoint security products industrywide.

Social Media and Location-Based Technologies Top Concerns for 2011As we approach December, predictions for what’s to come in 2011 are flowing in almost daily. Just last week several firms said threats targeting the fast growing smartphone and tablet markets topped lists of cyber concerns for 2011.

Researchers Discover Vulnerability in Canon's Original Data Security Kit, Allowing Manipulated Images to Pass as Authentic

"The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, commenting on the latest release of confidential documents by WikiLeaks.

INSIDE Contactless, a provider semiconductor solutions for mobile devices, secure transactions and digital identity, today introduced SecuRead, a system-in-package (SIP) near field communication (NFC) solution that helps manufacturers of NFC mobile and other devices to integrate all of the contactless, security and application functions required for a broad range of NFC payment, retail, transit, ID and access control applications.

CA Technologies today announced that it has hired Michael Denning as general manager of its Security business.

iovation, a provider of online fraud detection solutions, announced today that its suite of anti-fraud solutions would be available in Japan through a partnership with Tokyo-based Info Innovation Japan, Inc. Info Innovation Japan will exclusively represent iovation’s solutions to online communities, retailers, online gaming, financial services and payment service providers.

Juniper Networks today announced general availability of the SRX1400, a consolidated security services gateway targeted to small to mid-size enterprise, service provider and mobile operator data center environments.

HID Helps Developers Speed Product Design and Development Using HID’s Embedded Reader Platforms

Trend Micro announced today is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile Armor, a provider of data protection solutions.Mobile Armor's data protection offerings provide full-disk, file/folder, and removable media encryption for endpoints. They will complement Trend Micro's existing data loss prevention, email encryption and cloud encryption products.