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McAfee has announced McAfee Mobile Security 2.0, confirming the software’s presence in the Android Market last week, which appeared out of the blue to some users. The update is a step forward for overall resource usage and cosmetic improvements, but the base functionality remains the same.

Solera Networks, a provider of network forensics and network monitoring solutions, announced today that it has secured $20 million in Series D financing lead by Intel Capital.

Rival Claims "Malware" in Question is an Aggressive Form of an Ad Network – Not Malware.

Organizations Unite to Combat Email Phishing through DMARC.orgFifteen companies, including PayPal, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, have united to launch DMARC, a blueprint for a global counter attack on phishing, and a way to improve coordination between email providers and mail sender domain owners to combat spam.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a trader and four firms for what it calls a “brazen and systematic scheme”, which involved more than $850,000 in ill-gotten funds, and more than $2 million in customer compensation.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States, has issued an investor alert and a regulatory notice about an increase in financially motivated attacks, targeting the email accounts used by investors to initiate transactions. Similar warnings were recently issued by the FBI and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC).

Who doesn’t love Zappos? They are one of the friendliest Internet stores in the US. Zappos started in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn, a truly great guy, who grew the company to $1 billion in sales by 2008.It has been a few years, but I still remember those giant boxes of Zappos shoes my wife and daughter would order – lots of styles in several sizes each. The shoe ceremony would take an hour, with all but two, maybe three pair...

Symantec has found itself in the unusual position of having to warn users about its own software.

State of the art teleconferencing equipment is a must for most organizations today but few have installed it correctly, according to researchers at Rapid 7. The security company reported on Monday that conference boardrooms around the world were vulnerable to hacking. H.D.

The domain of UFC.com and two owned by luxury designer firm Coach, were targeted this week for their continued support of the anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting bills - SOPA and PIPA. In each case, the group calling itself UGNazi, hijacked the DNS used by the targeted domains, redirecting the visitors to a secondary location.

Good Technology, a provider of enterprise mobility management solutions, today released its latest device activations report for Q4 2011. With the company’s device management platform deployed in more than half of the Fortune 100, the report provides interesting insights into mobile device trends in the enterprise.The report details smartphone and tablet devices activated amongst its enterprise customers, but it’s important to note that it does not include data from Blackberry or Windows Phone 7 devices. Consider it an iOS vs....

In its most recent threat report, Sophos examines a wide range of topics including the problems and threats that emerged last year, and tying them into a list of predictions for 2012.

FireHost, a Dallas, Texas-based cloud hosting provider that has made security the focus of its offerings, today announced the opening of two new European data centers located in London and Amsterdam.

Last December, train service and rail schedules were disrupted, according to a TSA memo, after intruders managed to access the network of a rail company in the Pacific Northwest. Initially, the incident was thought to be a targeted attack, but further investigation shows that wasn’t the case.