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Painless PCI Assessments Are Possible If You Work For Them

VMware officials are looking to calm customer fears after word spread that source code for its ESX hypervisor product was leaked online.

Shape Security Raises $6 Million in Round Led By Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and TomorrowVentures

CORE Security Technologies, a Boston, Massachusetts-based provider of security testing solutions, this week announced a significant update to its CORE Insight Enterprise security intelligence solution.According to the company, its latest offering helps security professionals identify critical exposures to their infrastructure and link them real-world business risks.

The Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), which officially made its debut at the RSA Conference earlier this year, today announced that it has chosen SSL governance and implementation across the Internet as the

Why Consistency of Security Effectiveness and Performance is Key When Choosing Security TechnologiesHow do you separate marketing hype from reality? One approach is with third-party tests of IT security solutions—an efficient, neutral way to validate vendor claims of solution effectiveness and performance. But it isn’t enough to just look at a point-in-time result. What really counts is consistency year after year. Here’s why.

On Wednesday, security firms Sophos, Trend Micro and Symantec announced that they have inked deals with Facebook to help the social networking giant protect its massive user base.

A new report by application security vendor Veracode paints a not-so-rosy picture of application development programs.

With the rise in complex threats and new advanced malware flooding headlines and causing a stir, it’s easy to forget about some of the sizable threats that have graced the security word over the years—threats that may be out of mind, but shouldn’t be.

Google today said it would make another change to its search engine algorithm in an effort to cut back on web sites showing up in search results that may be there because of the wrong reasons.

A recent study coming from Sophos showed that 1 in 5 Macs have malware on them, leading to headlines proclaiming that 20% of Macs are infected. This misleading claim misses a key point in Sophos’ study, which is that the 20% represented Windows-based malware infections. If anything, Sophos’ results seem to suggest that Macs are the new Typhoid Mary of the Internet.

Firm Estimates Total share of Russian Cybercrime Market Doubles to Nearly $2.3 BillionGroup-IB, a Russian cybercrime investigations and forensics company with offices in New York and Moscow, recently released a report that examines the Russian cybercrime market and its existence in 2011. The 28-page report looks at the risks, trends, and financial performance of the criminal element, and includes forecasts for the coming year.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have confirmed that a new variant of malware targeting Macs is a directed attack. Called SabPub, the Trojan allows the attackers full control over the system, and unlike Flashback - the other Mac malware dominating the headlines - this one seems to have a distinct reason for living.

Fraudsters Know That When There’s a Chance Someone is Watching, Loose Talk Can Cost Cash.

Security researchers are reporting the emergence of another variant of the Flashback Trojan targeting Mac machines. According to Intego, the new variant continues to use a patched Java vulnerability to infect users. No password is required for it to install, and it places files in the victim’s home folder at the following concerns:• ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.java.update.plist• ~/.jupdate