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Undersecretary of Defense William J. Lynn has published an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine redefining the United States’ stance towards cyberwarfare, and he’s already getting shot at – primarily by IT pundits who find it hard to believe that the incident which led to the Pentagon’s recognizing cyberspace as a new “domain of warfare” could have really happened as described.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that security and compliance solutions firm ArcSight Inc., is putting itself up for sale.Bidders reportedly include Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., EMC Co., IBM Corp., and CA Inc. ArcSight could fetch $1.5 billion, according to the WSJ.

Workers denied access to certain websites at work are not afraid to voice their frustrations, a new survey shows.According to a recent survey, forty percent of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed said that it's at least somewhat common for employees to complain about security measures that limit which websites or networks they can visit at the office.

3PAR Accepts Dell’s Increased Price of $27 Per Share, with Total Value of $1.8 Billion Update: 9/2/2010 3Par Accepts HP's $2.4 Billion Bid, Dell Walks Away with $73 MillionUpdate: 10:27AM - HP raised its offer to $30 per share or $1.88 Billion

DNSSEC - The root is signed with DNSSEC. So what does this mean? Can we all relax? Is the Internet secure now?In July, ICANN, VeriSign and the NTIA generated and published the cryptographic keys used to sign the domain name system's root zone. This so-called "trust anchor" will eventually be relied upon by the entire DNS and used to protect billions of Internet users against several types of online attack, bringing a new foundation of security to the Internet's fundamental...

In 2010, 25 percent of new worms have been specifically designed to spread through USB storage devices when connected to computers.These types of threats can copy themselves to any device capable of storing information such as cell phones, external hard drives, DVDs, flash memories and MP3/4 players.

Mobile Application Development - Security Concerns Slowing Development and AdoptionConcerns about security issues are preventing companies from implementing features on mobile applications that are commonly available for the desktop, according to a new Ziff Davis study commissioned by Entrust, Inc. For mobile applications that feature transaction-based capabilities, these concerns are particularly acute.

SonicWALL, Inc. today announced the addition of two new secure wireless access points to its SonicPoint™ Series. These new devices are designed to provide clean wireless connections through integration with a collection of existing SonicWALL products: Gateway Anti-Virus, Intrusion Prevention, Anti-Spyware and Content Filtering.

What's in your Extended Enterprise?Analyzing its make-up and what risks it carries

IBM released its X-Force 2010 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report today, which showed record threat levels in almost every area.

Network and security monitoring firm VSS Monitoring, Inc., today announced it has raised $20 million from Battery Ventures in its first institutional round of financing.

IBM today announced new software to deliver security to thousands of laptops, PCs and servers globally -- automating some of the most time-intensive IT tasks.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today announced that AutoTrader.com paid $400,000 in order to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Autodesk, Corel and Quest software installed on its computers.

Despite using industry standard protection methods, 46 percent of U.S. SMBs have fallen victim to cybercrime, up two percent from last year.Those numbers are according to the results of study conducted by Panda Security, which surveyed nearly 10,000 SMBs around the globe and more than 1,500 in the United States.

A survey conducted at the recent DEF CON Hacker conference in Las Vegas revealed that hackers see the cloud as an attractive hacking target.The survey, carried out amongst 100 of the IT professionals attending DEF CON, revealed that 96 percent think the cloud will open up more hacking opportunities for them.

Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it will deploy Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSECs) across its registry platforms, signing 13 more top-level domains (TLDs) and increasing the total number of DNSSEC deployments among domain registries to 39.

Autonomy today unveiled a new, end-to-end, “meaning-based” platform designed to automate many time-consuming tasks law firms must deal with in order to manage documents in electronic form. The Autonomy Risk Management platform leverages Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), already deployed today in over 2,000 law firms.

Social Media Acceptable Usage Policy - Why Allow Web 2.0 to Be Used in Business?The consumerization of IT is affecting all aspects of the way we work.  As Web 2.0 technologies continue to gain popularity amongst employees, IT departments are struggling to understand and manage the challenges.

Boston based private equity and venture capital investment firm, Summit Partners today announced that it has invested $100 million for a minority stake in AVAST Software, makers of the world’s most popular antivirus software.

Variant of Popular ZeuS Malware Targets U.S. Military Around the WorldMalware created with the ZeuS toolkit is targeting members of the U.S. military with an email asking them to update their account information online.Members of the U.S. Military have been receiving emails similar to the following: Targets of this scam will receive an email with the following text:Dear Bank of America Military Bank customer: