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With Point of Sale Security, Simple Preventative Solutions are Often Taken for Granted and Get Lost in all of the Rhetoric

NetQin Mobile Inc., a Beijing based provider of mobile security solutions, today announced that a Beta version of NetQin Mobile Anti-virus V4.0 is now available for BlackBerry smartphones.Utilizing a Cloud-based model, NetQin's Mobile Anti-virus V4.0 Beta offers anti-virus security to BlackBerry smartphone users and includes the following features:• Protection against threats: The Anti-virus feature incorporates a cloud-based security scan to help identify and eliminates mobile malware.

Made possible by a sponsorship from Google, the University of Maryland, the alma mater of Google Co-Founder and President Sergey Brin, today announced the creation of a new cybersecurity seminar series that will feature a diverse group of speakers from industry, academia, and government, addressing a broad range of topics related to cybersecurity, including technology, policy, and economics.

Cisco today announced a new wireless platform designed to extend the corporate wireless network from the office to remote workers, incorporating existing control, management and security infrastructure.

Consumer security software giant AVG Technologies, today announced it has secured $235 million in new credit financing through a syndicate arranged by J.P Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

It appears that Canada’s Finance, Defense Research and Development departments, as well as the Treasury Board, were hacked in February by what the Canadian government is calling an “unprecedented” and “significant” cyber attack. Although confirmation is pending, the attack seems to be the work of patriot hackers, using computer servers based in China.The Canadian government admitted that if the hackers went all the way they would have accessed the financial information of private citizens.

Cloud Computing is made Feasible Through the Deployment and Interoperability of Three Platform Types: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

A former Goldman Sachs programmer responsible for developing programs that power the firm's high-frequency trading systems – a key to millions in profits for the Wall Street giant - was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 97 months in prison after being found guilty of theft of trade secrets and one count of transportation of stolen property.

SecurID Breach - Many Looking for Answers after RSA Alerts Customers of Sophisticated Attack

McAfee Public Sector Executive Tells Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee that Industry and Government Need to Evolve Collaboration Models for Global Cyber Threat Intelligence

How the FTC's Privacy Measures Could Impact the Efforts of IT Security and Fraud Detection

PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has found that the number of threats in circulation has risen, reporting a 26 percent increase in new threats compared to the same period last year.

While the Internet has no Center, Some Pieces of Infrastructure are More Important to Smooth Global Functioning Than Others.

Twitter Enables Option for HTTPS by DefaultFollowing a trend in allowing users to automatically utilize the secure HTTPS protocol when accessing Web based services, Twitter announced this week that it has added the option for users to force HTTPS connections by default when accessing Twitter.com.

Amazon Web Services has announced expanded functionality of its Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Service, by letting enterprises specify which of their Amazon VPC resources they wish to make directly accessible to the Internet and which they do not.

Chicago based Trustwave, a provider of security and compliance solutions, today released a tool that provides its enterprise clients the ability to manage all forms of penetration tests in real-time, and be presented with live, detailed test results and recommendations. With the results gathered from penetration tests, the generically named PenTest Manager displays rich media demonstrations including image slideshows and screen capture videos displaying how vulnerabilities can be exploited.

To Effectively Manage Risk, Security Teams Must have the Ability to Turn Event Data into Actionable Information to Mitigate Rising Threats and Vulnerabilities.

Adobe has issued a warning of a newly identified critical vulnerability in its Flash Player, and that the vulnerability is being exploited in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in Microsoft Excel (.xls) files delivered via email.

Anonymous, the group of online hackers notorious for its politically charged “hacktivism,” has released a massive batch of internal Bank of America emails.

In order for Virtualization to Establish itself as a Widely Trusted Approach to Infrastructure Deployment, Adaptive Security Technologies are Necessary