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The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) may not be many people’s favorite place, but in South Carolina, it has apparently become a magnet for hackers.
Symantec has updated its portfolio of backup products with new releases emphasizing speed and simplicity.In Symantec NetBackup 7.5, the company has added NetBackup Accelerator to speed backups. Other new features include NetBackup Replication Director, which integrates NetApp Snapshots with backup, and NetBackup Search, which allows the search and recovery of backup data.
On Monday, details emerged of what appeared to be an email exchange between a Symantec employee and a hacker using the alias “YamaTough” who claimed he was in possession of Symantec source code back in January, showing that the hacker may have attempted to extort the company, and that Symantec had been negotiating a deal to pay the hacker in exchange for the code not to be released. The exchange, however, was not between Symantec and the hacker, but between...
Visa today announced that U.S. banks have issued an estimated one million Visa-branded, EMV chip-enabled cards as the end of 2011. The milestone shows progress the industry is making toward implementing the more secure card technology, but the U.S. is far behind Europe in terms of adoption.
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Radware Debunks Myths About DDoS Attacks, Says That Size Doesn't Matter and Smaller Attacks are Often Deadlier
Hacker Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Hacking into Marriott Systems to Extort Employment from the CompanyA hacker who tried to land an IT job at Marriott by hacking into the company’s computer systems and then unwisely extorting the company into hiring him, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Palo Alto Networks Appoints Steffan Tomlinson as Chief Financial Officer Palo Alto Networks, the Santa Clara, California based network security company best known for its Next Generation Firewalls, on Thursday announced that it has appointed Steffan Tomlinson as its new Chief Financial Officer.
Google Highlights Security Processes for Android, Adds New Layer of SecurityOn Thursday, Google outlined a few of their processes for protecting users and securing the Android Market. In addition, they highlighted some interesting facts, which seem to place the rash of mobile risk reports being pushed by security firms into perspective.
With Facebook’s recent IPO filing revealing that it holds over 100 petabytes of photos and videos from its massive global base of 845 million users, it’s no secret that hiding in those millions of profiles are many fake accounts created and operated by cybercriminals.
VeriSign has admitted to falling victim to several attacks in 2010 that resulted in information being swiped from their servers.
In November 2011, the FBI and international authorities announced the disruption a massive cybercrime scheme that infected more than four million computers with DNSChanger Malware, malicious software that actively changes an infected system's DNS resolution settings to use rogue servers that can redirect traffic to malicious servers and attempt to steal personal information and generate illegitimate ad revenu
While we must continue to invest in new technologies that provide detection of the latest threats, detection alone isn’t enough.Traditional security solutions are falling short of providing needed protection because they’re typically blind to changing conditions and new attacks. Simply put: you can’t protect what you can’t see.
Netherlands-based AVG Technologies today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 8.0 million ordinary shares at a priced to at $16.00 per share, an offering that in total will raise approximately $128 million, but net slightly less than $64 million in the company’s pockets after investment banking fees, underwriting discounts and commissions.
Wave Systems, a Massachusetts-based provider of encryption and security solutions, this week launched Wave Encryption Service (WES), a cloud-based encryption solution designed to be easy to deploy, manage and enforce.
More Formidable Security Threats and High-Profile Attacks Drive Enterprise Demand for Security Intelligence Services Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) on the threat intelligence market, a sector made up of advanced security event monitoring and management technologies that incorporate a variety of threat-related information sources to develop predictive security, predicts the market to grow from $198 million in 2009 to $905 million in 2014.