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Fresh off news that Splunk has filed for an IPO on Thursday, Netherlands-based AVG Technologies today filed an F-1 Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a proposed initial public offering (IPO). Similar to an S-1, an F-1 is required by foreign companies looking to sell securities in the United States.

In a talk at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) entitled “Smart Hacking For Privacy,” researchers Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus described their experiences with smart meters from the German energy provider Discovergy. They said they could guess what’s on your digital TV based on unencrypted signals from the smart meters. They could also spoof the energy usage reported from the meter, a far more serious concern.

The question most asked throughout 2011 was, “is this the year with the most hacks?” There is no straight answer. I think the best way to answer the question is to pose another question.“Why was there more news about hacks, and why would anyone be surprised?”Okay, that’s two questions, but the point is that companies have been working without rest to secure their data. While Internet security technology has improved, companies are slow to catch up. Hackers, on the other...

Sophos has released a new edition to its line of network protection offerings, announcing today that its gateway appliances have been adopted for virtual use. They’ve simplified the pricing, with a fixed cost based per user / per year, making the virtual protection available to any company, of any size.

Threats have evolved. Most security technologies have not. Companies need to look at new, innovative security solutions to effectively combat increasingly sophisticated threats in today’s dynamically changing IT environments.

The Day The Internet Will Break For Millions—A Looming Deadline in the Aftermath of 'Operation Ghost Click'

Following a series of highly publicized cyber attacks that occurred over the holidays, Stratfor today launched a rebuilt version of its website.During the attacks, hackers stole and released personal information of Stratfor customers, including credit card data and hashed passwords. Attackers also managed to destroy company servers in what, Stratfor says, appeared to be an attempt to silence the company.

Latest Enchancements Help Developers Make Android Devices More Secure and More Enterprise-ready.Mocana, a vendor that centers itself on smart device security, announced on Wednesday that it has released two products updates aimed at helping developers secure devices running Android 4.x “Ice Cream Sandwich”. One product protects data-at-rest (DAR), while the other offers a stable VPN client for remote connections from Android devices.

Lawsuit Alleges That Symantec's Lineup of Performance Utilities are “Scareware”, and Designed to Report Problems, Even if None Exist.

The "Lords of Dharmaraja", the same group of hackers who claimed to have compromised systems maintained by India’s Military Intelligence, leading to threats of exposing Symantec source code and details surrounding intercept operations that leveraged

The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California announced on Tuesday that Eric McNeal, 38, of Atlanta, Georgia, had been sentenced for “hacking” into a competing medical practice and accessing the personal information of patients in order to send marketing materials to the patients.McNeal, who pleaded guilty to the charge on September 2011, was sentenced thirteen months in prison and three years of supervised release, along with 120 hours of community service.

ThreatMetrix, a provider of technologies to help organizations thwart cybercrime, on Tuesday said that it has acquired TrustDefender, an Australian-based company that offers “secure browsing technology” designed to protect against malware and stop attacks including man-in-the-browser (MitB) attacks.

Microsoft and Adobe Systems released a bevy of patches today to plug security holes in their products.Only one of the month’s seven Microsoft Patch Tuesday bulletins is rated ‘critical’; the others are considered ‘important.’ The critical bulletin covers two vulnerabilities affecting Windows Media Player. If exploited, both could enable an attacker to execute code remotely with the same rights as the local user.

Splunk, the fast growing provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from a diverse set of sources, today launched the latest release of its flagship product, Splunk Enterprise.

SOPA and PIPA Raise Substantial Barriers to DNSSEC Adoption, Which will Lead to a Less Secure Internet.

Data diodes can create architectural complexity despite design simplicity of the data diodes themselves, but do they increase security?

A cyber-crime operation using the SpyEye Trojan was spotted around the holidays with a new trick up its sleeve for dodging detection.According to Trusteer, fraudsters targeting online bankers were observed attempting to cover their digital tracks on infected computers by concealing their unauthorized transactions.

Less than a year after its previous release, Oracle today announced a new release of Oracle Database Firewall, the database giant’s solution to improve enterprise database security and help enterprises prevent internal and external attacks from reaching their databases.

Last week, the Lords of Dharmaraja made headlines by exposing their work to the world, after claiming to have breached systems used by India’s military intelligence. They released old source code from Symantec, and API documentation as proof. However, over the weekend it was learned that they also released a memo documenting India’s intercept program, and the role that Research in Motion, Apple, and Nokia play in it.