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Palo Alto Networks, today announced new functionality that enables enterprises to control Facebook Social Plug-ins, helping to ease some of the growing privacy concerns associated with facebook’s connection to third party Web sites.

Top 10 Malware Threats for AprilSunbelt Software has announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of April 2010. With nine of ten detections from March still on the list for April, it shows continued prevalence of Trojan horse programs circulating on the Internet. A new loader for a rogue security product making it into the top 10.

SAIC Selects NYU-Poly To Help Build Cyber Security Powerhouse, Delivering Master's Degrees to More Than 600 Top Employees

IT security and data protection firm Sophos announced that it has reached an agreement to sell a majority interest in the company to private equity group Apax Partners. The transaction will value the company at $830 million. Following the transaction, the founders of Sophos will retain a significant minority shareholding.

Report projects that the number of files, images, records and other digital information containers will grow by a factor of 67, each needing to be managed, secured and protected. 

Amazon Web Services announced that it has launched Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) service in the European Union today.

SecurityWeek staff has confirmed that portable storage, authentication, and trusted virtual computing solutions provider, IronKey, has raised $22 million in venture capital funding.

Managed information security services provider, SecureWorks, Inc., announced today the hire of Colonel Barry R. Hensley, former Director of the Army's Global Network Operations and Security Center. Hensley will be joining as Vice President of SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit.

Application delivery solutions provider, Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), today announced the issuance of three United States Patents based on real-time signatures to protect and secure application and network Traffic.The new additions to Radware’s patent portfolio include:• "Generated Anomaly Pattern for HTTP Flood Protection"