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LAS VEGAS - McAfee FOCUS - Xerox and McAfee unveiled a new layer of security protection for printers at the McAfee FOCUS 12 conference this week in Las Vegas. The two companies discussed how McAfee's Embedded Control software – a filtering method that allows only approved programs to get through - will be used by multifunction printers to prevent attacks.

LAS VEGAS - McAfee FOCUS 2012 - Solving security challenges to critical infrastructure companies requires partnerships between vendors, a panel of solution providers and experts said today at McAfee's Focus conference in Las Vegas. Working closely with suppliers, explained Gary Woodward, director of business development at Emerson Process Management and Water Solutions, ensures that products are integrated and working optimally.

Boeing has successfully tested a missile capable of knocking out electronic systems without blowing anything up or injuring anyone.

Cloud-based security and compliance solutions provider Qualys has updated two of its products to help administrators better manage vulnerabilities and mitigation, the company said Wednesday at its own Qualys Security Conference in Las Vegas.

Increasingly sophisticated threats against the country's cyber-infrastructure means the country has to invest in protecting against, detecting, mitigating, and recovering from cyber-incidents.

The modern enterprise IT environment is extremely complex. A myriad of smartphones, tablets, applications and network devices, along with the growing use of virtualization and cloud services, all present an increasing volume of management and security concerns.

An assembly of tech giants including AMD, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin, and RSA, has come together to form the “Cyber Security Research Alliance”, a consortium that will focus on the "grand challenges" for cyber security and next generation technologies.

AlienVault, the company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, on Wednesday announced the formation of the Open Minds Exchange (OME), a resource center housing a collection of research, tools, and thoughts from both their in house experts and those in the security community. In an effort to make access to this data readily available, the security firm released two mobile applications for iOS as part of the initiative.

Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest book chain, has suffered a data breach resulting in the loss of customer credit card data. Notification of the breach was withheld for more than a month at the request of the FBI.

China's Huawei Blasts US 'Protectionism' - Says It Would Offer "Complete and Unrestricted Access" To Its Source Code And Equipment Through An Independent Testing Center.

BRUSSELS - Microsoft did not meet commitments to provide clients a web browser choice in 2011-12, the European Commission said Wednesday as it pursued a probe that could lead to more fines for the US software giant. Microsoft had made a legally binding commitment to provide such a choice and it was a serious matter to breach them, European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.

LAS VEGAS - McAfee FOCUS 2012 - The security community generally can be counted on to agree on one thing – the amount of malware is growing. The question then becomes what to do about it.

A new report from Verizon examined a subset of the data included in its annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) to glean some insights about intellectual property thefts.

The University of Alabama’s Center for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Research (CIA|JFR) has received $250,000 from the world’s largest social network, thanks in part to their help in taking down the Koobface gang. The money comes from legal winnings earned by Facebook, after they started taking spammers and scammers to court.

Deloitte Survey Shows Few State CISOs Are Confident In Their States' Ability to Defend Against Cyber Attacks Less than a quarter of state chief information security officers were confident in their states' ability to safeguard data from attacks, according to a recent Deloitte & Touche survey. Only 32 percent of the CISOs felt state employees have the "required cyber-security competency."