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On April 19, 2011, Sony experienced a nightmare of a security breach. What began with a few Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) servers unexpectedly rebooting themselves has resulted in a blemishing of the Sony brand and the loss of some major bucks.

Strategies and Best Practices for Deploying a Load Balancer for Email

Kaspersky Lab, in its most recent spam report for May 2011, revealed that across its user base, Russia has taken the number one position in terms of the quantity of malware detected in emails by antivirus software. According to Kaspersky’s data, Russia overtook the United States, where the quantity of malware infected emails received fell by 3.5 percent. The most widespread malware distributed via email was the Trojan-Spy program Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen.

Symantec this week published "A Window Into Mobile Device Security: Examining the security approaches employed in Apple's iOS and Google's Android", an in-depth, technical evaluation of Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile platforms, to help organizations understand the security risks of deploying these devices in the enterprise.

The folks over at Veracode have analyzed the recent PlayStation Network Breach and turned it into the infographic featured below. The infographic highlights events from the initial DDoS attacks and first major breach, through the many subsequent discoveries that resulted in a drop in Sony's stock price from $36.36 at the beginning of the year, down to $24.28 on June 20th.

According to new research from IDC, worldwide revenue for servers deployed to public clouds will reach $3.6 billion in 2015 while private cloud server revenue will balloon to $5.8 billion.

Playing in the Shadows: Remaining Stealthy in the Underground is Becoming Ever Simpler

Following a massive breach in late March that exposed the personal information of millions of users, Epsilon, the world's largest permission based email marketing services company, today shared information on security enhancements that the company has implemented in response to the high profile security breach.

AVG Enables Increased Secure Cloud Experience for Amazon EC2 Users

A former vice president in Citigroup, Inc.’s treasury finance department has been arrested on bank fraud charges arising from his embezzlement of more than $19 million.

VeriSign today announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) renewed the company's contract to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the .net registry for another six years.More than half of the world’s domains rely on Verisign’s infrastructure, and the company has held management of the .com/.net infrastructure for over 12 years. VeriSign also manages two of the world's 13 Internet root servers, a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net, considered national IT assets by the U.S. Federal government.

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Council’s Virtualization Special Interest Group has released new guidance pertaining to virtual environments. Any organization that accepts and manages credit cardholder data within a virtual environment must understand this guidance and act accordingly. It will influence how auditors assess virtual environments and whether these environments comply with PCI requirements.

Data Breach Exposes Highly Selective Group that can be used in Targeted Phishing Attacks on DoD/Government/Defense Contractors

Kaspersky Lab today announced its first security solution designed exclusively for Android tablets. The new solution, Kaspersky Tablet Security, helps protect tablet users with real-time protection against viruses, spyware, Trojans, bots, and more.

Cellcrypt, a provider of encrypted voice calling solutions for mobile phones, today announced that it has launched Cellcrypt Mobile™ for iPhone®, a version of its encrypted voice calling application that runs on Apple® devices running iOS and operates over Wi-Fi™, GSM, CDMA and satellite networks. Today’s announcement follows the release of the Android version which the company released back on June 14th.