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U.S. Department of the Treasury posed a new challenge to fraudsters this week, unveiling the new design for the $100 note and incorporating some new technologies to combat counterfeiting.

Security Software provider, Sunbelt Software, is looking capitalize on the misfortune of competitor, McAfee’s, recent “false positive” crisis that has been the talk of the industry and Twitter Wednesday afternoon.

Palo Alto Networks today announced that Michael E. Lehman has been appointed chief financial officer of the rapidly growing network security company. Lehman brings more than 35 years of senior-level financial management experience with technology companies, including CFO roles at Sun Microsystems.

Application risk management platform provider, Veradode, Inc., today announced Veracode SecurityInsights, a cloud-based service enabling Veracode users to instantly compare their software against the aggregated security quality benchmarks from thousands of applications in their industry.

Visa (NYSE:V) has announce that it will acquire online electronic payment and risk management provider, CyberSource Corporation, (NASDAQ:CYBS) in an approximately $2.0 billion cash transaction valuing CyberSource shares at $26.00 per share.

Symantec has released its Global Internet Security Threat Report for 2009, a data packed report showing trends, impending threats, and the continuing evolution of the Internet threat landscape.

Cox Announces “Cox Business Security Suite” powered by McAfee's technology

Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) today unveiled beta versions of the Norton 2011 AntiVirus and Norton 2011 Internet Security, available now as free download. With performance being a key objective in the latest releases, both products will include “System Insight 2.0” which alerts users when applications are significantly impacting their system resources.

Affinion Security Center, announced enhancements to its BreachShield service, aimed at preventing, detecting and resolving Identity Theft resulting from data breaches. The updates are focused on helping customers at risk for medical identity theft but available for all types of organizations that could experience a data breach.

Cyber warfare is a hot topic in the security industry, but what does this term actually mean? At what point does a cyber conflict become a cyber war? Are cyber threats, cyber attacks and cyber espionage acts of cyber war? Many of these questions need to be discussed – and that discussion is about to take place.

Updated Mac Forensic Suite Features Improved Performance, Enhanced User Interface, and Support for Snow Leopard MacForensicsLab Inc. announced the release of their computer forensic suite, MacForensicsLab 3.0. The new version adds new features along with enhanced stability and speed improvements.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury in the District of Maryland has returned a 10-count indictment charging former National Security Agency (NSA) senior executive Thomas A. Drake with the willful retention of classified information, obstruction of justice and making false statements.

Average Total Cost of a Data Breach Rises to $6.75 Million; Major Increase in Number of Records Lost Per Incident. Stolen Laptops Were the Number One Cause of a Data Breach in 2009.The results of a data breach study, conducted by Perimeter E-Security, were released today, providing a review of the scope and impact of data security breaches that occurred in the past year.

When a new disease surfaces among humans or animals, the first thing we notice are the patterns of spread – not the structure of its DNA.  

New Service to Help Organizations Identify Data and Systems Compromised by Malware and Online Attacks

As anticipated, Adobe has released security updates for Acrobat and Acrobat Reader Products. These updates are classified as critical as the vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader 9.3.1 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX update to Adobe Reader 9.3.2. (For Adobe Reader users on Windows and Macintosh, who cannot update to Adobe Reader 9.3.2

DNS is the address book for the Internet. It’s the way for users, customers and partners to find your online presence and communicate and transact with it. Without DNS, the Web, e-mail, hosted applications, and virtually every mission-critical thing done online would become unusable.

We are barely four months into the year, and 2010 has already proved itself a dream for scammers and fraudsters around the world, filled with opportunity and prosperity. They have had many events working to their advantage, helping them prey on and exploit innocent victims.

On April 13th, Adobe plans to release updates for Acrobat Reader for Windows, Mac and UNIX to resolve critical security issues. The new update, Adobe says, will fix several vulnerabilities and include an improved version of the software that Adobe uses to deliver its updates, helping end-users stay up-to-date in a much more streamlined and automated way. For the latest information, visit the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team blog at: http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt

Apple today announced the biggest software update yet for the iPhone. iPhone OS 4 will include over 100 new features for iPhone and iPod touch owners, including some much desired security features for the enterprise. Set to be released this summer for iPhone and iPod touch, the update will be available for the iPad in the fall. A version is currently available for developers.