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A shocking 87 percent of the victims in a study of data breaches jointly conducted by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service had evidence of the breach in their log files, yet missed it. According to the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 60 percent of breaches were discovered by external parties, and then only after a considerable amount of time.Most breaches were considered avoidable if security basics had been followed Only 4 percent of breaches assessed required difficult and...

Solera Networks, a provider of network forensics and network monitoring solutions, announced today that it has closed $15 million in Series C financing. Trident Capital lead the round as a new investor and was also joined by Allegis Capital and Canopy Ventures who were previous investors.

Cisco Global Threat Report - 2Q10For the first time since tracking began in 2007, the number of unique web-based malware hosts and malware URLs didn’t increase, according to Cisco’s Quarterly Global Threat Report just issued for the second quarter of 2010.

App Genome Project Enables Rapid Identification of Bad Applications San Francisco based Smartphone security company, Lookout, today unveiled plans for an initiative to map and study mobile applications in order to identify security threats and provide insight into how applications are tapping into personal data and accessing other phone resources.

Imperva, a California based data security company, this week announced a research initiative focused on providing deeper insight on how cybercriminals conduct large scale cyber attacks as well as shedding light on the evolution of the underground business of cybercrime.

Fifty-six percent of companies that have deployed interactive Web 2.0 applications have taken steps to prevent hacking, and the other 46 percent should, according to a new report released yesterday by InformationWeek Analytics. To make its point, the research firm deployed a sample Web 2.0 employee management application on its web site. The report’s author, Tivo security director Adam Ely, easily hacked it.

Several of the world’s largest ISPs, along with major enterprises, realize the need for a centralized clearing-house capable of alerting the world about major DNS problems

Last week Dell notified customers that certain Dell PowerEdge Server replacement motherboards had been infected with malware. The W32.Spybot worm (originally discovered in 2003) was found in flash storage (NOT firmware) on the motherboard during Dell testing.This issue does not affect systems as shipped from Dell and is limited to replacement motherboards in four servers - Dell PowerEdge R310, PowerEdge R410, PowerEdge R510 and PowerEdge T410.

In a trend that mirrors the invasion of the corporate world in the 1980’s by personal computers, today’s employees are beginning to use consumer-oriented technology like the iPhone and Facebook to do business – and this means stress and trouble for IT security professionals.

IT security firm Sophos this week issued new guidance on a Windows Zero Day vulnerability that is already being used to target critical infrastructure systems, including power grids. Exploit code for what Sophos terms the "CPLINK" vulnerability is widely available. In response to the situation, the SANS Institute has taken the uncommon step of raising its industry Infocon vulnerability alert level.

Microsoft today announced the availability of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) public beta which now available to customers.The successor of Forefront Client Security, FEP 2010 is built on System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2, allowing customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection.

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