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In early May, the Michaels art supply chain reported that 90 PIN pads within some of its 995 stores nationwide had been compromised, with victims reporting fraudulent withdrawals of up to $500 made from ATMs on the West Coast against their credit and debit card accounts. While 90 units represents less than 1 percent of the total, Michaels took the extraordinary precaution of removing the approximately 7,200 comparable PIN pads from all its US stores. The company was also monitoring...

Symantec today announced it would acquire privately-held Clearwell Systems, a provider of eDiscovery, archiving and backup solutions for $390 Million in cash.

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What’s old is new again

Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, the first update to the platform since the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in November 2010. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, Red Hat continues to set the standard in flexibility, performance and quality that customers around the world rely on for their open source enterprise environments, spanning physical, virtual and cloud deployments.

Microsoft has released a new version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).

According to recent survey findings coming from CyberSource, a Visa company, airlines lost an estimated $1.4 billion due to online payment fraud in 2010. But with so many security checks that come along with air travel, how is this possible? A typical fraud scenario in the airline industry plays out like this:

In February 2011, the clock finally ran out on IPv4, the trusty Internet Protocol that has been used to connect networked computers for the last 30 years. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which manages the master pool of IP addresses, assigned its last five blocks of IPv4 space to the world's five Regional Internet Registries.

BeyondTrust today announced the acquisition of Lumigent Technologies, a Massachusetts-based provider of database security and activity monitoring solutions.As a result of the acquisition, BeyondTrust today announced PowerBroker Database, a solution that provides IT security departments with the ability to closely monitor database activity of privileged users, assess system configurations, and capture, alert, and report on changes to critical system configuration and business data.

Threats to our networks are faster, smarter, more prevalent, more targeted, and more elusive than ever before. At the same time, the number and types of operating systems, applications and services running on the network continue to grow. Gaining visibility into different user types – remote, mobile, third-parties, and by job function – and accommodating their unique requirements adds even greater complexity when it comes to protecting our IT infrastructure.

IT Security and data protection company Sophos today announced the availability of a number of new and enhanced mobile management and protection products for enterprises.

For nearly a year, 22 year-old Lucas Henderson of Texas has been creating and distributing fake coupons, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars lost by retailers and manufacturers. He surrendered in federal court last week.

A group of security and privacy researchers from the Institute of Media Informatics at Ulm University in Germany, is claiming to have discovered a serious security vulnerability in Google's ClientLogin protocol.In a recent analysis of the Android platform, the group discovered that when Android users are connected to an unencrypted open Wifi network, an attacker could both read transmitted synchronization data of Google Contacts, Calendar and Picasa Web Albums, and capture the authToken that’s user for authentication.

Autonomy Corporation, with dual headquarters in Cambridge, England and San Francisco, California, announced that it would acquire certain assets from Iron Mountain's digital division including archiving, eDiscovery, and online backup for $380 million in cash.The acquisition of assets will bring over six petabytes of data under management and more than 6,000 customers to Autonomy's customer base, bringing its private cloud data to over 25 petabytes and total customer base to over 25,000.

The Coreflood botnet seizure by the FBI has been well documented by the Justice Department in the April 12, 2011 Complaint.