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China Surpassed the United States to Become the Largest PC Market in the World in the Second Quarter of 2011, According to IDC

Symantec researchers report a massive increase in the amount of boot time malware striking users

Google has plugged 11 security holes in its latest update for the Chrome browser, including one that garnered a critical rating.

Nominum, a provider of DNS management solutions, today officially announced that it has appointed Gary Messiana as the company's new Chief Executive Officer where he will oversee corporate strategy and operations for the company as it looks to enhance its products and expand into new markets.

According to a new report published by Pike Research, a market research and consulting firm that provides analysis of global clean technology markets, increasing risks to the electrical grid will require utilities to make significant new investments in cyber security for industrial control systems (ICS), which the firm forecasts will total $4.1 billion between 2011 and 2018.

Malicious Hackers Go to Great Lengths to Hide their Identities, And the Nature of the Internet Makes it Simple."On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

Android Takes Top Spot for New Mobile Threats: Research Shows Malware Authors May be Porting Symbian Malware Code to Android

Palo Alto Networks today announced that it has added a number of partners to provide managed security services for its line of next generation firewalls, including BT Global Services, Solutionary, Symantec and Verizon.

"GingerMaster" Takes Advantage of Root Exploit against Android 2.3 Google Android malware is on the rise, and now a team of researchers has uncovered the first malicious program to use a root-level exploit against Android 2.3.

Research In Motion announced today that its BlackBerry Smart Card Reader has achieved FIPS 140-2 Certification Level 3.

Cell phone hacking is big news as of late. Recently, scandal has rocked News of the World and The Daily Mirror. These two British tabloids are under investigation for alleged hacking into the cell phones and voice mail of celebrities and 9/11 victims. Whatever the outcome, it’s put a huge focus on potential privacy violations with regard to mobile devices.

Epson Korea Co., Ltd. said on Saturday that hackers had accessed the personal data of approximately 350,000 customers last week in a series of cyber attacks. A company Spokesperson told SecurityWeek that the compromised information was stored on a Web server and contained names, IDs, passwords, and resident registration numbers of people registered with a Korean language site.

Verizon today announced that the approximately 45,000 wireline employees represented by the CWA and IBEW that have ben on strike, will return to work beginning Monday night, August 22nd, without new collective bargaining agreements.

Along with HP’s announcement that it would acquire enterprise software firm Autonomy for approximately $10 billion in cash, the company made several other announcements, including news that it had appointed a new Head of Enterprise Services.

When you Outsource, You are Entrusting Someone Else to Worry about SecurityChances are that if you are using cloud computing, you are buying a service from someone else. Yes, sometimes organizations build their own private cloud, but let’s view the fundamental purpose of cloud computing as for an organization to outsource some function offered “in the cloud”. Is cloud computing fundamentally different than outsourcing? Yes and no. Is cloud computing anything really new? Yes and no.