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USB Malware, Diploma Spam from China and Earthquake Web Searches Top Threat Lists. United States hosts 98 percent of new malicious URLs

New Diagnostic Tool Helps Publishers and Ad Networks Identify & Shut Down Malicious Ads

In response to the continued rise in Web-borne malware and botnet threats, McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), today announced the release of McAfee Web Gateway version 7.

The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced today that Recovery.gov has moved to a cloud computing infrastructure, a technology that will allow for more efficient computer operations, improved security and reduced costs.

Log Management and Security Event Management solution provider, LogLogic, today announced that it is cutting the price of its Security Event Management (SEM) products by more than 50% in order to make SEM technology more accessible to companies of all sizes.“Vendors seem to be hiding all sorts of costs as add-ons, feature upgrades, and installation services,” said Guy Churchward, CEO of LogLogic. “LogLogic is committed to offering a complete product at a transparent price, with zero compromise on the core...

In the world of information security during the ‘good old days’ of the late 1990s, enterprise boundaries were enterprise boundaries and operational risk to infrastructure was relatively easy to define, track, assess and remediate.

AT&T (NYSE:T) today announced an update to its Secure E-mail Gateway Service through a partnership with McAfee. The new service, delivered as a "Security as a Service" (SaaS) solution, integrates McAfee's e-mail protection technology and global threat intelligence with AT&T's network gateway nodes to deliver enhanced SaaS capabilities for customers throughout the world.

In an effort to improve security and situational awareness at the busiest U.S. container port, The Port of Los Angeles has begun implementation of a new integrated command and control platform to fuse, correlate and analyze information across disparate security systems.

The Harvard Crimson has reported that an undergraduate student was dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into the online accounts of faculty members.

AT&T, working with local officials and business leaders, is conducting a full-scale disaster recovery simulation - a Network Disaster Recovery Exercise - in the Metro Detroit area from May 6 to May 14 near The Dearborn Inn.Last week, a fleet of 22 semi-tractor trailers was brought into Dearborn, loaded with networking equipment for creating a temporary central network office. A team of more than 60 permanent and volunteer NDR team members assembled and turned up the central network office, first...

The Avalanche phishing gang was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks on the Internet according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s semiannual Global Phishing Survey.

 New platform and API to provide customers a way to unify security management across physical and virtual infrastructures.

Cloud Security Study: IT Unaware of All Cloud Services Used in Their Enterprise; Less Than Half of are Properly Evaluated for Security

Twitter is being flooded with reports of DNS outages in Germany, Austria and some other European countries. Many users are reporting ".de" domains not resolving and that several root servers are failing.Update 9:24AM EST: The issue seems to be limited to .de domain names due to an outage of .de zone TLD servers. The problem appears to be in a configuration or database issue as some domains are working and some are not. For example, as of now, facebook.de works...

A survey of 353 network administrators entitled “What Keeps Network Administrators Up At Night,” asked the administrators to rank their top three priorities, with the results showing that 25% ranked "securing remote access" as being their top priority, while 15% said "keeping viruses definitions up to date" was a top priority.

On October 21, 2002, the Internet’s core root server system as a whole came under a significant attack. A coordinated distributed denial-of-service attack aimed to knock the 13 domain name system root servers – the closest thing the Internet has to a single point of failure – offline. Had it succeeded, electronic communications would have eventually frozen up and e-commerce would have slowly ground to a halt. The economic consequences could have been dire.

Verizon Business today announced Enterprise Mobility as a Service, further adding its "everything-as-a-service" (EaaS) portfolio of cloud-based business solutions.

From interacting on social network sites, to disabling company installed security software so they can access restricted Web sites, most employees were more focused on individual concerns and conveniences than their company's overall IT security, according to the 2010 Trend Micro survey on corporate and small business end users.

A domestic and international enforcement initiative targeting the illegal distribution of counterfeit network hardware manufactured in China has resulted in 30 felony convictions and more than 700 seizures of counterfeit Cisco network hardware and labels with an estimated retail value of more than $143 million.

Electronic Payment services provider, ProPay, today announced it has added encryption and tokenization to its Automated Clearing House (ACH) transaction data within its ProtectPay line of services.