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Network security vendor Palo Alto Networks, today announced that its next generation firewalls have achieved Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+), making Palo Alto Networks firewalls validated for deployment in critical infrastructures, ranging from national governments to enterprise and financial institution networks.

Fixmo, a provider of mobile security and risk management solutions, today launched Fixmo SharePlace, a data leakage prevention (DLP) solution designed to provide secure and compliant remote access to Microsoft SharePoint from iOS and Android devices.

Today’s businesses must be able to rapidly adapt to changing market conditions – to support a new venture, merger/acquisition, etc. As business needs change, so too must the underlying security policies.

The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or REN-ISAC, recently issued an alert to administrators and IT staffers at some of the world’s most notable institutions of higher learning that urges them to take the matter of securing DNS seriously.

NEW YORK - The New Yorker magazine on Wednesday unveiled a new online system for anonymous whistleblower tips, based on technology developed by the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz and a former hacker.

AirWatch, a provider of mobile security and mobile device management (MDM) solutions, on Tuesday announced that it has taken a $25 million investment from VC firm Accel Partners. 

PARIS - In this episode of Security Conversations, Ryan Naraine talks to security researcher Stephen Ridley

Despite four takedowns in five years, PushDo is back, complete with new features designed to make the botnet more resilient and elusive, researchers said.

On Wednesday, Barracuda Networks released version 7.8 of their Web Application Firewall (WAF), which was developed with the aim of lowering the impact Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have on an organization.

McAfee pulled the curtain back on a new biometric protection suite on Tuesday, promising uniform data protection across multiple platforms, including Mac OS X, iOS, Windows, and Android.

During the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit this week, FBI Executive Assistant Director Richard McFeely said that the agency is pushing a broader effort to communicate more with victims of cybercrime.

Cyber-criminals are actively updating the Travnet malware and improving the botnet's infrastructure to boost its document-stealing capabilities, researchers found.

CORE Security, a provider of security intelligence and penetration testing tools, this week announced a significant upgrade to CORE Insight Enterprise, the company’s vulnerability management solution.

Would you mind a stranger taking your picture as you eat ice cream on a bench outside? What if your spouse and kids were also in the shot? Kind of creepy. Lots of folks have a negative reaction to stranger taking their pictures. They feel their rights have been impinged. But the rights you feel you deserve and the rights you have under the law can be very different. Let’s see what rights you really have with your image.

Bitcoin’s wiki defines it to be “an experimental, decentralized digital currency”. As with any experimental system, if it proves to be successful then it is usually followed by a finalized product which builds on the parts that worked well on the experiment and removes the parts proved to be irrelevant.