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Lockheed Martin builds on strength of VCE's pre-integrated technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware to reduce infrastructure costs and risk using private clouds

Consortium of Global IT Managers Launches with Mission to Define Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure

Juniper's Global Threat Center Will Focus Exclusively on Mobile ThreatsJuniper Networks this week announced the opening of the Juniper Global Threat Center in Columbus, Ohio to provide around-the-clock, global monitoring of mobile security threats to consumers and enterprises.

Study Shows Americans Support "Internet Kill Switch" - National Security Remains Top Concern for AmericansSixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack, according to a recent study conducted by information technology giant, Unisys.

In-Q-Tel, the Venture Capital Arm of the CIA, Makes Strategic Investment in Growing Online Fraud Prevention Company

Norman ASA, a provider of endpoint security and anti-malware tools, says that its researchers in Oslo have identified a new Trojan that infected the Nobel Peace Prize site early this morning. The new Trojan was transmitted through a vulnerability in Firefox version 3.5 and 3.6.

Report Reveals the Riskiest Web Domains to VisitWeb risk climbed to a record 6.2% of more than 27 million live domains evaluated for the 2010 Mapping the Mal Web report released today by McAfee. According to the report, the world’s most heavily trafficked web domain, .COM, is now the riskiest, with fifty-six percent of all risky sites discovered ending in .COM.

Smaller botnets are cheaper and easier to build out and operate, and criminals have already realized that large-scale botnets attract unwanted attention

Qakbot Trojan Targets Business Accounts at Financial Institutions

Cloud Service SLA Survival Tips - What should you be asking your cloud provider?So you’ve decided to test the waters of cloud computing, but you have some concerns. You don’t know what you don’t know. Let’s start with a few tips you may want to consider when defining your SLA with the Cloud Provider.

Firesheep Extension for Firefox Enables HTTP Session Hijacking For the Masses. Instantly Hacks Into Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail and Many More Sites With Ease.

Danish private equity firm Dansk Kapitalanlæg has acquired a 31 percent stake in Copenhagen based IT security company, Secunia.Secunia provides on vulnerability intelligence and vulnerability management tools to help companies secure applications and networks.

Google finally admitted (via blog post) that the company's "Street View" cars had collected data including “Entire Emails, URLs and Passwords” from Wireless Networks in several countries

Worldwide revenue for mobile security client software grew 16% between the first and second quarter of 2010, according to Infonetics Research, a market research firm.Infonetics' Security Client Software report provides regional and worldwide market size, select market share, forecasts through 2014, and analysis for security client software for consumer and enterprise desktops/laptops, and for mobile security clients, including data protection clients for smartphones.Some excerpts from its updated 2010 report:

WhiteHat Security, a provider of website risk management solutions, unveiled its Threat Research Center (TRC) this week. The company has assembled a team of website security gurus to operate as an extension of an organization's information security team.