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Alert Logic, a Houston, Texas based provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, today announced that it has closed a $12.6 million Series E financing.

Smart Grid Security - Utilities Must Address Several Pressing Security Concerns and Establish a Strong Cyber Security Framework, or the Benefits of the Smart Grid Will Remain a Promise, not a Reality.

Congressman Eric Cantor is the target of one man’s rage. Luckily, Norman LeBoon, of Philadelphia, will be behind bars for the next 24 months, followed by three years’ supervised release, for threatening Cantor (7th District Virginia) and a member of his family. LeBoon pleaded guilty in November of this past year to threatening Congressman Cantor and transmitting in interstate commerce a threatening communication.

Reputed innovators, universities crave the cutting edge. They need to keep current. They need to trailblaze. It’s how they can continue to advance academic status and attract fresh talent. For this reason, it makes sense that university IT departments aren’t shy about investigating and participating in the latest and greatest technology trends—including virtualization and cloud computing.

People are Vulnerable. Remind Them to be Conscious of, and Ready for an Attack.

Mocana, a San Francisco based company that focuses on smart device security, recently released a study that tuned into the impact of security threats to non-PC devices.Connected devices like smartphones, smartgrid components, Internet TVs, and medical and automobile electronics already outnumber PCs on the Internet by five to one.

"Spear Phishing" - An Inside Look at Some of the Strategies and Tactics Cybercriminals Use to Conduct Successful Phishing Attacks

How You Can Avoid Email Deliverability Problems due to Shared Email Infrastructure When Outsourcing CRM functions to a SaaS ProviderCRM and Email

The number of acquisitions in the IT security industry continues to grow. In 2010 some highlights included Intel’s purchase of McAfee, HP’s acquisitions of Fortify and ArcSight, IBM’s purchase of BigFix, Symantec’s purchases of PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge, Juniper’s purchase of SMobile, and VMWare’s purchase of TriCipher. Sourcefire started 2011 with an acquisition of Immunet.

Does the World's Largest Permission-Based Email Marketer Know What PII Is? Doesn't Seem Like It.

CSC today announced a cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution built in partnership with Boulder, Colorado based cloud security company, Symplified.

Conficker could have proved much more damaging than it ultimately did, but the threat has not entirely disappeared.

HP this morning announced that it will bring together some of its offices across the Bay Area, including those at recently acquired Fortify and ArcSight

Web Application Security Best Practices - How to Raise the Bar so Hackers Have to Work Hard to Get Through

Symantec this week released its latest Internet Security Threat Report which revealed that more than 286 million new threats, or malicious code, surfaced in 2010. The report showed not only a dramatic increase in frequency of threats, but also an increase in sophistication of targeted attacks on enterprises.