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Guardian Analytics, a Los Altos, California based provider of fraud prevention solutions, today announced that it has raised $11 million in Series D funding. As part of the round, Split Rock Partners joins existing investors including Foundation Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures which made additional investments as part of the round.

Malware Family Integration Across Botnets at Higher-Than-Normal Volumes. Bredolab Botnet Still Alive

Zscaler today released a free Firefox plugin designed to help protect users from fake and compromised online storefronts. 

According to a report from VeriSign today, 2010 closed with a base of 205.3 million domain name registrations globally across all Top Level Domains (TLDs). Registrations for 2010 grew by 12.1 million, or 6.3 percent year over year. According to my math, that averages 33,150 new domain registrations per day.

The ambulance chasing lawyers of the business world didn't win. (I Never thought they would and the FTC approved the transaction back in December) Intel today announced that its $7.68 billion acquisition of McAfee is complete.

In 2010 the FINRA reported a significant increase in the number of cases despite a slight decrease in the total amount of fines, according to the FINRA Sanction Study, a recent report from legal and tax services firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP.

In today's complex environments that comprise on-premise and cloud systems, enterprises need the right security data at the right time to ensure that systems remain secure and within regulatory compliance.

Study Shows Those with Security Clearance Earned Less Than Previous Year, but Show Little Concern over Potential Job Loss

Updated: 02/28/11 @ 11:58AM EST - A statement from the London Stock Exchange to SecurityWeek notes that the ads in question came from Unanimis, a UK ad network owned by Orange France Telecom Group. A representative from the London Stock Exchange said that the the Exchange's website wasn't impacted, but as a client of Unanimis it was flagged for malware alerts by Google. As a precaution, they have removed Unanimis-supplied advertisements. Unanimis claims a 73% reach in to the UK...

According to the joint FBI/National White Collar Crime Center’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) just-released 2010 Internet Crime Report, non-delivery of payment or merchandise, scams impersonating the FBI, and identity theft were the top three most common complaints received in 2010. The report also includes a state-by-state breakdown of complaints.

Corporate use of telecommuters is on the rise. Office space is expensive. Some companies use telecommuting as a way of reducing office space, while others like the fact that a telecommuting workforce gives them more geographic flexibility when hiring. If you can reasonably manage one person in Cleveland, who is the perfect skill match for the job, why try to hire a more expensive, less skilled person Chicago headquarters? Some companies work with telecommuters for the simple reason that employees...

Following reports earlier this week of multiple variants of Hong Tou Tou, two additional spyware programs targeting Android devices have been reported by NetQin Mobile this week.

Dmitry M. Naskovets of Belarus, creator and operator of CallService.biz, an online business that assisted over 2,000 identity thieves in over 5,000 instances of fraud—pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire and credit card fraud. Through Callservice.biz, Naskovets helped fellow online thieves use stolen information by providing English language calling services to trick banks in the United States. Naskovets was arrested in the Czech Republic in April 2010 as part of a multinational law enforcement operation.

In federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, 26-year-old Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas pleaded guilty to hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and NASA.

After Your Secure SSL Session Ends, Merchants can Theoretically Keep your Entire Customer Profile in Clear Text. Attackers love to Exploit Vulnerabilities in Online Stores to Steal that Data.