Symantec has appointed Thomas Seifert as executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Britain's communications spy agency GCHQ and the NSA intercepted and stored images from webcams used by millions of Yahoo users, the Guardian newspaper reported.

Qualys said its QualysGuard Web Application Firewall (WAF) service for web applications running in Amazon EC2 and on-premise is now available.

AT&T and IBM announced a new partnership that the two companies say will offer customers a simplified, single-source for network security and threat management.

AVAST Software has received a significant investment from CVC Capital Partners that valued `the software company at $1 billion.

At the Cybertech Conference, Lockheed Martin and IBM both announced they would invest in CyberSpark R&D facilities, joining other cybersecurity leaders.

Bay Dynamics, a provider of information risk intelligence solutions, launched a new portal designed to help customers identify threat patterns, trends and behaviors based on deviations from normal user activities.

Chinese computer giant Lenovo will buy IBM's low-end server business for $2.3 billion, giving it a platform to compete in that sector with US giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

Check Point has released a new Security Gateway Module (SGM) 260 that doubles the performance of its 61000 Security System.

Juniper Networks has unveiled Firefly Suite, a new virtualized security platform designed to protect private and public cloud deployments.

EiQ Networks, a provider of security intelligence solutions, has released two new freemium security intelligence tools designed to help resource-constrained organizations address security management acquisition and operational complexities.