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Operating with blinders on, whether you are riding a bike, running a business or operating a technology enterprise can be a recipe for serious trouble. And it’s that same safety-driven need for visibility that fuels the search for solutions to aid in discovering and ultimately protecting sensitive data.

Internet security software vendor AVG Technologies (AVG) today announced that it has acquired Bsecure Technologies, a provider of consumer-focused Internet filtering and anti-virus software. Bsecure's offerings, which focus on parental control and “family security” products, will further help AVG penetrate the home Internet security market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

McAfee has completed its acquisition of Portsmouth, NH based NitroSecurity, a privately held provider of high-performance security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.The acquisition, originally announced on Oct. 4, will help McAfee expand its Risk and Compliance and Global Threat Intelligence capabilities.

Growing Threats Trigger Increases in M&A in $60 Billion Global Cyber Security Market. Cyber Security M&A Deals Exceed $22 Billion Since 2008.

Large Banks Targeted in #OpRobinHood as Hacktivists Look to Steal from the Rich and Give to the Poor

Using a Common Password? Online Password Crackers are Effective Even with Services that Have Strict Lock-out Policies.

Research In Motion entered the multi-platform Mobile Device Management (MDM) market this week with the introduction of BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, the company’s next-generation enterprise mobility solution.BlackBerry Mobile Fusion aims to simplify the management of smartphones and tablets in the enterprise, not just for its own BlackBerry devices, but also for competing devices running Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems.

Survey Finds Enterprises Lose an Average of $124,965 Annually from Fragmented Encryption Solutions Encryption use is growing, but many companies don’t seem to have a handle on that growth.

Does your Security policy take the Carrier into Consideration? Does it Require Users to Change the Default PIN?

To Maximize Profits, Fraudsters Need to do a Whole Lot of Learning.

Carrier IQ, a provider of software that helps mobile carriers monitor handset performance, has backed off its threat to sue a security researcher for saying its software secretly tracked mobile phone users.

“There’s an app for that” has become a mantra of the modern day smartphone carrier. Most businesses are deploying mobile apps as a convenient accompaniment for their web services. Almost every major service customer use can be performed using a smartphone. From banks letting us do monetary transactions through an app, to retailers like Amazon, or Starbucks letting you simply hold up your phone for a scan to pay for your coffee.

Invincea, Inc., a provider of malware threat protection via virtualization within the desktop OS, today announced that it has raised $5.1 million in growth capital led by Harbert Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, and New Atlantic Ventures. The cash injection will be used primarily to expand Invincea's corporate sales, engineering, and marketing efforts. The company previously raised $2.1 in March 2009, bringing total funding to date to $7.2M.

WatchGuard Technologies unveiled two product announcements today, with one being a head nod to organizations looking to secure mobile devices running Apple iOS.The first announcement is an update of the company’s operating system for its XTM line of unified threat management appliances. WatchGuard has added support for the IPSec functionality present on Apple devices. By doing so, WatchGuard enables users of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch a way to access corporate resources securely from the device, according to the...

Twitter has acquired mobile security vendor Whisper Systems for an undisclosed sum.Whisper Systems has a number of security products in beta for Android devices, such as the voice encryption product RedPhone and TextSecure, which encrypts text messages.