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Chicago based Trustwave Holdings, a provider of security and compliance solutions, is hoping to raise as much as $100 million in an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC yesterday. The prospectus provides a detailed look at the company’s finances and operations.

A Michigan woman pleaded guilty today to selling counterfeit computer software which reportedly earned her over $400,000. Jacinda Jones, 31, of Ypsilanti, Michigan pleaded guilty to one count of willful copyright infringement before a judge in Detroit. According to court documents, between July 2008 and January 2010, Jones sold more than 7,000 copies of pirated business software at discounted prices through the website cheapdl(dot)com. The software, published by several companies including Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit and Symantec had a retail value...

What motivates an organization to secure data? For one, there is the cost or impact of a breach, which spans from the losses the business incurs while resources are shut down to investigate the attack to the potential damage to a company’s brand. Not all retailers, however, find the prospect of a hefty price tag reason enough to invest in securing customer data (emails, addresses, identification numbers, credit card numbers, etc.). Luckily for consumers, there is an even more compelling...

Protected Mobility, a Virginia-based mobile security company, announced the release of ProtectedSMS™ for Android smartphones today, a handset-to-handset solution enabling mobile users to exchange secure, encrypted text messages with individuals who have installed the software. This adds to an existing solution that was already available for BlackBerry smartphones and allows BlackBerry and Android to exchange messages.

The Air Force Association today announced that registration for CyberPatriot IV is now open, and is inviting students from all high schools or accredited home school programs in the United States to participate. No need to rush, however, as registration will be open through October 8, 2011, though space is limited.

Back in July 2010 at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that it would move to a new vulnerability disclosure process called “Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure” — a reframing of responsible disclosure — in response to the ongoing debate between responsible disclosure (where a bug is disclosed only to the software vendor who then fixes it) and full disclosure (where the bug is publicly disclosed).

As expected, Oracle has issued a critical patch update containing 73 new security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of its products. Oracle also warns that due to the threat posed by a successful attack, customers should apply Critical Patch Update fixes as soon as possible.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Europe’s cyber security agency, today released its final report on the first Pan-European cyber security exercise, “Cyber Europe 2010”. The exercise was conducted back in November 2010 as a way to trigger communication and collaboration between countries and as a step for strengthening Europe’s cyber defenses in the event of large-scale cyber-attacks.

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