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Several sources are reporting that Symantec is close to a deal in which it would acquire Verisign’s security business and paying approximately $1.3 billion according to people close to the matter. Both Verisign and Symantec have declined to comment on the matter.

The year was 1983; Microsoft released Microsoft Word, McDonald’s introduced the Chicken McNugget and arguably the most significant development for the Internet occurred – the implementation of the Domain Name System or DNS. Without the DNS, it is doubtful the Internet could have grown and flourished as it has. Every time we receive or send e-mail, access a web page, make a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call, or complete many other tasks involving the Internet, we use the DNS.

USB Malware, Diploma Spam from China and Earthquake Web Searches Top Threat Lists. United States hosts 98 percent of new malicious URLs

New Diagnostic Tool Helps Publishers and Ad Networks Identify & Shut Down Malicious Ads

In response to the continued rise in Web-borne malware and botnet threats, McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), today announced the release of McAfee Web Gateway version 7.

The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced today that Recovery.gov has moved to a cloud computing infrastructure, a technology that will allow for more efficient computer operations, improved security and reduced costs.

Log Management and Security Event Management solution provider, LogLogic, today announced that it is cutting the price of its Security Event Management (SEM) products by more than 50% in order to make SEM technology more accessible to companies of all sizes.“Vendors seem to be hiding all sorts of costs as add-ons, feature upgrades, and installation services,” said Guy Churchward, CEO of LogLogic. “LogLogic is committed to offering a complete product at a transparent price, with zero compromise on the core...

In the world of information security during the ‘good old days’ of the late 1990s, enterprise boundaries were enterprise boundaries and operational risk to infrastructure was relatively easy to define, track, assess and remediate.

AT&T (NYSE:T) today announced an update to its Secure E-mail Gateway Service through a partnership with McAfee. The new service, delivered as a "Security as a Service" (SaaS) solution, integrates McAfee's e-mail protection technology and global threat intelligence with AT&T's network gateway nodes to deliver enhanced SaaS capabilities for customers throughout the world.

In an effort to improve security and situational awareness at the busiest U.S. container port, The Port of Los Angeles has begun implementation of a new integrated command and control platform to fuse, correlate and analyze information across disparate security systems.

The Harvard Crimson has reported that an undergraduate student was dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into the online accounts of faculty members.

AT&T, working with local officials and business leaders, is conducting a full-scale disaster recovery simulation - a Network Disaster Recovery Exercise - in the Metro Detroit area from May 6 to May 14 near The Dearborn Inn.Last week, a fleet of 22 semi-tractor trailers was brought into Dearborn, loaded with networking equipment for creating a temporary central network office. A team of more than 60 permanent and volunteer NDR team members assembled and turned up the central network office, first...

The Avalanche phishing gang was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks on the Internet according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s semiannual Global Phishing Survey.

 New platform and API to provide customers a way to unify security management across physical and virtual infrastructures.

Cloud Security Study: IT Unaware of All Cloud Services Used in Their Enterprise; Less Than Half of are Properly Evaluated for Security