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On Wednesday, NSS Labs released the results of a study that examined Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), and their ability to deal with SSL traffic. What they found was unfortunate, as many of the products – which are often the core of an enterprise’s defense strategy, failed to deal with the encrypted traffic properly.

Security software maker ESET this week launched a new solution designed to protect company data and assets stored on Microsoft SharePoint servers.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Wednesday said that it has been battling what appeared to be politically targeted efforts to steal the passwords of tens of thousands of account holders in Iran.

BEIJING - Bombshell revelations about the United States' wide-reaching surveillance programs could spur China and other countries to expand their own efforts, Beijing-based dissident Ai Weiwei warned on Wednesday.

Websense Report on Canadian Cybercrime Shows Increase in Advanced Malware and C&C Behavior, Decrease in Hosted Phishing

U.S. President Barack Obama has appointed Symantec President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Bennett to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), the company announced on Wednesday.

BlackBerry released two security advisories on Tuesday, alerting customers about vulnerabilities that affect its BlackBerry Z10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.

The global security technology and services market is forecast to reach $67.2 billion in 2013, up 8.7 percent from $61.8 billion in 2012, according to Gartner.

FireHost, a Dallas-based cloud hosting provider that has made security the focus of its offerings, today announced that it has raised $12 million in a Series D funding round.

MADRID - Spain's national police has built up an army of over half a million followers on Twitter, using them to help swoop on fugitives and get tip-offs on drug dealers in an open dialogue that has helped bring the force closer to the people.

Trend Micro has launched a new security as a service solution that uses automated and expert analysis to help protect web applications.

Better Security Intelligence and Attacker Identification can add an Important New Layer to Protect the Data Center.Perimeter firewalling has you covered like a muumuu on Memaw. While we thank our lucky stars in many ways for Memaw’s muumuu, we still feel like Memaw could do better for herself. And so can you when it comes to data center security.

Content Raven, a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based company that helps customers control and secure content and intellectual property distributed externally, today announced that it secured $2 million in a Series A round, led by Mass Ventures.

Washington - A fierce debate about Internet privacy and the limits of US executive power erupted on Tuesday in a victory for the young intelligence technician at the center of a global leak storm.

The Zeus/ZBOT Trojan is no newcomer to the malware scene, but that hardly means it does not have any new tricks up its sleeve.

Microsoft is urging businesses to prioritize a patch for Microsoft Office in order to thwart a spate of ongoing, targeted attacks that have appeared in the wild.

WASHINGTON - A coalition of Internet and civil liberties groups launched a campaign Tuesday protesting the huge US online surveillance program revealed in the past week. Joining the effort were the Mozilla Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace USA, the World Wide Web Foundation and more than 80 other organizations or companies.

Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) remain concerned about the security, privacy, and reliability of cloud applications, but they quickly see the benefits once they make the actual jump, according to a Microsoft survey.

An article reporting on the National Security Agency's surveillance program on a Washington news site was compromised and directed users to a malicious site, Invincea warned on Monday.

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and NSA through his job as a contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton, has been terminated, according to a statement released by Booz Allen Hamilton on Tuesday.