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Pennsylvania’s Chief Information Officer Brenda Orth will resign, effective October 31, according to an announcement made today.The commonwealth's chief technology officer, Tony Encinias, will serve as interim chief information officer while retaining his current position. Brenda Orth was appointed in January 2008. She previously served as chief technology officer for the commonwealth.

Cloud Based Solution Helps Developers Reduce the Cost of Identifying and Fixing Software Defects

Report Examines User and Application Trends in the Enterprise of over 1,100 Applications Across 723 Organizations Worldwide 

AntiVirus for MacOS Protects MacOS and Scans iOS Devices to Prevent Transmission of Malware

Kaspersky Download Web Site Gets Hacked

New solution helps customers create an intelligent, cloud-ready and secure enterprise from the data center to the cloud

Rapid7, a Boston, Massachusetts based provider of vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, today announced the availability of Metasploit Pro, its new software targeted to security professionals in enterprises, government agencies and consulting firms who need to test the security of networks.

The industrialized hackers are intent on one goal--making money. They also know the basic rules of the business of increasing revenues while cutting costs. (Part IV In a Series on Cybercrime.

Ridge Global names former US-CERT Director and former Director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security to Board of AdvisorsRidge Global, the security and risk management services company founded by Tom Ridge, nation's first secretary of Homeland Security and former governor of Pennsylvania, today announced is has named Amit Yoran, CEO of Netwitness Corporation, to the company's board of advisors.

Company Announces New Solution for Cloud Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Assurance Target Compliance, Security and Threats in Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Environments As Global 2000 private and large public sector organizations face increasing compliance and security demands, they are virtualizing more of their IT operations through private and public cloud environments. In this transition, organizations still need to "gracefully lose control" without undermining governance, risk management and compliance requirements.

MarkMonitor, a provider of enterprise brand protection solutions, announced today that it has acquired DtecNet, a company the helps locate and monitor illegal download activity on P2P networks, blogs, video streaming sites and Usenet services.

Information Theft At Global Companies Surpasses All Other Forms of Fraud for First Time. Corporate Information Technology Systems are Increasingly Under Threat 

Adobe today announced its new Acrobat X Family of products, which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. In the new release, Adobe is adding an entirely new security strategy by introducing a new “Protected Mode” in Acrobat Reader. Announced this past summer, Protected Mode utilizes "sandboxing" technology based on Microsoft’s “Practical Windows Sandboxing technique ” – a method of isolating the application from the rest of the operating system...

University of North Florida Suffers Data Breach 

Charles Schwab Clients Targeted in Recent Malware AttackThreat researchers from Fortinet have decrypted a yet another variant of the Zeus botnet, one that specifically targets Charles Schwab customers.

Massive Attack Targets Businesses Using EFTPS.Gov Tax Services Web Site

New Feature for Safe Browsing Alerts Helps Network Administrators Locate Phishing URLs

Vulnerability Could Allow Attacker to Execute Arbitrary Code or Cause a denial-of-service ConditionRIM has released a security advisory to address a security issue in the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. According to RIM, the vulnerability could allow a malicious individual to cause buffer overflow errors, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or execution of arbitrary code on the computer that the BlackBerry Attachment Service runs on.

GE today announced the acquisition of Australia-based data migration and SCADA simulation specialists, Opal Software. Opal Software supplies professional engineering services and SCADA and DMS software products to electricity, water and gas utilities. The company’s data migration capabilities help clients to switch quickly between multiple platforms.

Organized crime enterprise known as the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian, fleeced the health care system through a wide-range of money making criminal fraud schemesThe FBI reported this week that seventy-three people, including a number of alleged members and associates of an Armenian-American organized crime enterprise, were charged in indictments with various health care fraud-related crimes involving more than $163 million in fraudulent billing.