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After Bloomberg published an article this morning saying that Fortinet Inc. was in acquisition discussions with IBM, Fortinet responded with a formal statement denying the report.Late Monday afternoon Fortinet issued the following statement:

Data Protection Fears Result in Organizations Avoiding Virtual Machines for Mission-Critical ApplicationsFears around data protection are slowing mass adoption of virtualization, according to a recent survey of 500 chief information officers. The survey showed that 44 percent of CIOs say they are avoiding using virtualization for certain mission-critical workloads due to concerns about backup and recovery.

A few days ago I got back from an AMTSO workshop in Munich. AMTSO is the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, and I also wrote about it back in June. It’s essentially a coalition of organizations with an interest in improving anti-malware testing, and as you might expect, its current membership largely consists of security vendors and testers. Why would you expect that?

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that it has teamed with the University of Maryland (UMD) to support initiatives that promote education, research, and technology development in cybersecurity.

Webroot today announced it has acquired Prevx, a UK based provider of cloud-based anti-malware solutions.Prevx provides cloud-based antivirus protection and behavior-based malware detection, helping to block threats before they can reach a PC or corporate network.

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), the industry standards body that oversees the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), PIN Transaction Security (PTS) requirements and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), this week released version 2.0 of the PCI DSS and PA-DSS.

F-Secure this week announced that that the newest version of its Messaging Security Gateway product now also offers 256 bit AES encryption for email, helping to protect sensitive data being shared between users and helping to comply with corporate security policies.

Symantec today released its October 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, which showed that cybercriminals are increasingly launched targeted attacks.According to the report, targeted attacks have increased from one to two attacks per week in 2005 to 77 attacks per day in October 2010.

Privacy Breach Solution Targets Large and Complex Health Care ProvidersFairWarning, Inc., a company that provides solutions to monitor and protect Electronic Health Records, this week announced the availability of HP based high availability privacy breach solutions designed for very large and sophisticated care providers.Due to the escalating visibility and damages resulting from patient privacy breaches, breach detection is transitioning into a necessity for every care provider.

Lockheed Martin builds on strength of VCE's pre-integrated technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware to reduce infrastructure costs and risk using private clouds

Consortium of Global IT Managers Launches with Mission to Define Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure

Juniper's Global Threat Center Will Focus Exclusively on Mobile ThreatsJuniper Networks this week announced the opening of the Juniper Global Threat Center in Columbus, Ohio to provide around-the-clock, global monitoring of mobile security threats to consumers and enterprises.

Study Shows Americans Support "Internet Kill Switch" - National Security Remains Top Concern for AmericansSixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack, according to a recent study conducted by information technology giant, Unisys.

In-Q-Tel, the Venture Capital Arm of the CIA, Makes Strategic Investment in Growing Online Fraud Prevention Company

Norman ASA, a provider of endpoint security and anti-malware tools, says that its researchers in Oslo have identified a new Trojan that infected the Nobel Peace Prize site early this morning. The new Trojan was transmitted through a vulnerability in Firefox version 3.5 and 3.6.

Report Reveals the Riskiest Web Domains to VisitWeb risk climbed to a record 6.2% of more than 27 million live domains evaluated for the 2010 Mapping the Mal Web report released today by McAfee. According to the report, the world’s most heavily trafficked web domain, .COM, is now the riskiest, with fifty-six percent of all risky sites discovered ending in .COM.

Smaller botnets are cheaper and easier to build out and operate, and criminals have already realized that large-scale botnets attract unwanted attention

Qakbot Trojan Targets Business Accounts at Financial Institutions

Cloud Service SLA Survival Tips - What should you be asking your cloud provider?So you’ve decided to test the waters of cloud computing, but you have some concerns. You don’t know what you don’t know. Let’s start with a few tips you may want to consider when defining your SLA with the Cloud Provider.

Firesheep Extension for Firefox Enables HTTP Session Hijacking For the Masses. Instantly Hacks Into Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail and Many More Sites With Ease.