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Reports Show Significant Drops in Spam Levels Since Rustock Botnet Takedown - But Will Rustock Be Back?The Rustock Botnet was sending as many as...

eBay announced today that it has agreed to acquire ecommerce and marketing services provider GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion in cash. It’s not a...

NEI, a Canton, Massachusetts provider of solutions for software technology developers and OEMs, today announced that it has been awarded a US Patent for...

BT today launched a Managed Secure Messaging Service for financial institutions, enabling the financial community to exchange messages securely and reliably over BT private...

NETGEAR today introduced the NETGEAR ProSecure UTM150 – a Unified Threat Management (UTM) gateway targeting businesses with around 150 users. The new UTM150 was...

VeriSign today unveiled “Verisign Uptime Bundle,” a basket of services that combines protection from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks with Domain Name System...

Cybercriminals in the underground economy are making serious money from stealing corporate intellectual property, which includes things such as source code, trade secrets, marketing...

Updated with Statement from Oracle (03/28/11 1:48PM EST) Oracle issued the following statement to SecurityWeek on Monday afternoon: "Security is one of Oracle’s greatest...

Fraudulent SSL Certificate WarningUS-CERT, Microsoft, Mozilla and other organizations have issued warnings regarding fraudulent (fake) SSL certificates being issued.According to the Comodo Group, Inc.,...

According to recent scans of than 475 merchant networks, nearly two-thirds of merchant computer systems store unencrypted payment card data. These results come from...

McAfee announced this morning that it would acquire Sentrigo, a privately held provider of database security solutions.Sentrigo offerings include database security technologies including vulnerability...

Hacker Posted Video of Himself Compromising a Hospital’s Computer System on YouTubeJesse William McGraw, a former contract security guard at the North Central Medical...

NetQin Mobile Inc., a Beijing based provider of mobile security solutions, today announced that a Beta version of NetQin Mobile Anti-virus V4.0 is now...

Made possible by a sponsorship from Google, the University of Maryland, the alma mater of Google Co-Founder and President Sergey Brin, today announced the...

Cisco today announced a new wireless platform designed to extend the corporate wireless network from the office to remote workers, incorporating existing control, management...

Consumer security software giant AVG Technologies, today announced it has secured $235 million in new credit financing through a syndicate arranged by J.P Morgan...

A former Goldman Sachs programmer responsible for developing programs that power the firm's high-frequency trading systems – a key to millions in profits for...

PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has found that the number of threats in circulation has risen, reporting a 26 percent increase in new threats...

Amazon Web Services has announced expanded functionality of its Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Service, by letting enterprises specify which of their Amazon VPC...

Chicago based Trustwave, a provider of security and compliance solutions, today released a tool that provides its enterprise clients the ability to manage all...