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Radware Debunks Myths About DDoS Attacks, Says That Size Doesn't Matter and Smaller Attacks are Often Deadlier

Hacker Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Hacking into Marriott Systems to Extort Employment from the CompanyA hacker who tried to land an IT job at Marriott by hacking into the company’s computer systems and then unwisely extorting the company into hiring him, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Palo Alto Networks Appoints Steffan Tomlinson as Chief Financial Officer Palo Alto Networks, the Santa Clara, California based network security company best known for its Next Generation Firewalls, on Thursday announced that it has appointed Steffan Tomlinson as its new Chief Financial Officer.

Google Highlights Security Processes for Android, Adds New Layer of SecurityOn Thursday, Google outlined a few of their processes for protecting users and securing the Android Market. In addition, they highlighted some interesting facts, which seem to place the rash of mobile risk reports being pushed by security firms into perspective.

With Facebook’s recent IPO filing revealing that it holds over 100 petabytes of photos and videos from its massive global base of 845 million users, it’s no secret that hiding in those millions of profiles are many fake accounts created and operated by cybercriminals.

VeriSign has admitted to falling victim to several attacks in 2010 that resulted in information being swiped from their servers.

In November 2011, the FBI and international authorities announced the disruption a massive cybercrime scheme that infected more than four million computers with DNSChanger Malware, malicious software that actively changes an infected system's DNS resolution settings to use rogue servers that can redirect traffic to malicious servers and attempt to steal personal information and generate illegitimate ad revenu

While we must continue to invest in new technologies that provide detection of the latest threats, detection alone isn’t enough.Traditional security solutions are falling short of providing needed protection because they’re typically blind to changing conditions and new attacks. Simply put: you can’t protect what you can’t see.

Netherlands-based AVG Technologies today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 8.0 million ordinary shares at a priced to at $16.00 per share, an offering that in total will raise approximately $128 million, but net slightly less than $64 million in the company’s pockets after investment banking fees, underwriting discounts and commissions.

Wave Systems, a Massachusetts-based provider of encryption and security solutions, this week launched Wave Encryption Service (WES), a cloud-based encryption solution designed to be easy to deploy, manage and enforce.

More Formidable Security Threats and High-Profile Attacks Drive Enterprise Demand for Security Intelligence Services Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) on the threat intelligence market, a sector made up of advanced security event monitoring and management technologies that incorporate a variety of threat-related information sources to develop predictive security, predicts the market to grow from $198 million in 2009 to $905 million in 2014.

BlackBerry 7 Devices Get FIPS 140-2 Certification for U.S. and Canadian Governments BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that BlackBerry mobile devices running its new BlackBerry 7 and BlackBerry 7.1 Operating Systems  have been awarded FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC).

Chainmail is Composed of Several Layers, as Should Your Security Strategy.Everyone has heard of the “layered” security approach, yet very few security professionals seem to fully appreciate what is actually meant by it, nor do they know how to go about designing such a strategy. The conventional view is similar to an ice cream sandwich-- each layer piled on top of the other, providing a thick pillow of protection that a would-be information assassin has to fully penetrate in order...

Akamai Technologies has released its State of the Internet report for the third quarter of 2011, based on data collected from its massive global network. In it, they observed that attack traffic online originated from 195 countries or regions, but that more than half of this traffic came from the Asia-Pacific region.