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Symantec has updated its Enterprise Vault archiving software with a mix of data classification technology and a new focus on social media content.In Enterprise Vault 10, Symantec is touting data classification as a means to help ease the archiving of Microsoft Exchange e-mail content and metadata as well as the ability to automatically archive content from social media sites such as Facebook.

Software Vendors Need to Know the Impact That Unlicensed Software has on their Bottom Line

Palo Alto Networks, the network security company best known for its Next Generation Firewalls, on Monday will announce that VeriSign CEO, Mark D. McLaughlin, will join Palo Alto Networks and take the reigns as president and CEO of the company. The fast growing company had been without a CEO for 8 months.

Say you’re pulled over, can a police offer demand you turn over your cell phone? Is the officer entitled to look at or take your phone, or for that matter, any other device such as a laptop or tablet?In a recent episode of NBC’s Press:Here, Hanni Fakouri of the Electronic Frontier Foundation addresses and discusses individual’s legal rights, and what you should do if you’re found in a situation where law enforcement attempts to access or take your electronic devices.

Sourcefire announced this week that it has appointed Charles E. Peters, Jr., chief financial officer of Red Hat, Inc., to its Board of Directors as an independent director, effective July 26, 2011.

Moscow based Kaspersky Lab, with U.S. a headquarters in Woburn, MA, this week announced that two senior level marketing executives have joined the company as it continues to grow globally.

While an increasing portion of IT budgets are being allocated towards security, 70 percent of respondents in a recent IT security survey said they have been impacted by security breaches and still struggle to mitigate attacks due to limited time and resources.

I assume there are a few technology arenas more confusing that security (though, probably not many). Even when I have lunch with my small business counterparts and we talk security, I find a lot of misconceptions about what web security is all about.

According to a recent market research report from Gartner, 44 percent of the $16.5 billion worldwide security software market in 2010 belonged to the five largest vendors, including Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, IBM and EMC’s RSA.The combined market share for the top five vendors has dropped from 60 percent since 2006, according to Gartner’s report, “Market Trends: An Ever-Consolidating Security Market Never Consolidated”.

ManTech Hacked! Anonymous Begins Release of Documents

Hacking Laptop Batteries

Dell SecureWorks announced that starting in August, it will provide management and monitoring services for Next-Generation Firewalls from Palo Alto Networks.

Has the U.S. Government Landed itself on the Cutting Edge of Technology?

Anonymous and Lulz Security, in an open letter to PayPal and its customers titled, “A message to PayPal, its customers, and our friends,” is taking a new approach to punish the company, this time legally, with what some are calling "DBoS" or Distributed Boycott of Service, a play on illegal DDoS attacks, a tactic that hacktivists have used in the past.

Most reports on consumerization of technology, or “bring your own device,” are somewhat negative—at least from the view of IT and Security departments. We hear about all the threats, and challenges in managing multiple device types, enabling these devices on corporate networks and maintaining security and control over the devices and what goes on them.

Penetration Testing Platform Introduces Interface for SIEM Integration, Public and Private Cloud Deployments, Brings New SCADA Exploits and MoreRapid7, a Boston-based provider of vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, today announced the launch of Metasploit Pro 4.0, the latest edition of its penetration testing solution.

Good Software to be Offered with SteelCloud's Appliance Technology to Deliver iPhone and Android Security to the GovernmentSteelCloud, Inc. and Good Technology today announced a partnership that will bring together SteelCloud and Good Technology's Good For Government™ enterprise-class mobile mail and personal information management solution to address government mobile security requirements.

Dallas based Entrust, announced today that Jon Callas, a co-founder of PGP Corporation, has been appointed Chief Technology Officer for the company.

WhiteHat Security, a provider of website risk management solutions, has secured $8 million in new capital to fuel company growth. In its growth plans, the in Santa Clara, California based company says it will open a Threat Research Center in Houston, Texas, and increase its staff nearly sixty percent in 2011. The company also is rumored to have a new product line in the works.

For many years law enforcement turned to the public for aid in identifying and tracking criminal suspects. This was done through famous WANTED posters and, later as technology progressed, featuring them in television shows such as “America’s Most Wanted”.