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Lockheed Martin and Carnegie Mellon University announced today that they will conduct joint research and development as they look to shape the future of cyber operations, in a new cyber lab opened by Lockheed Martin near the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

Most organizations aren’t prepared to prevent and respond to web infrastructure failures caused by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and Domain Name System (DNS) failures. These conclusions came from two studies commissioned by VeriSign that show the urgent need for robust DDoS protection, reliable and secure DNS infrastructure, and advanced threat intelligence.

Imperva, a provider of data security solutions, today announced a cloud-based Web Application Firewall service targeted toward small to mid-enterprise businesses looking to achieve PCI compliance, prevent blacklisting, protect against Web application attacks and improve Website performance.

Mobile devices offer well-established benefits in terms of productivity and efficiency gains for employees and enhanced services for consumers. But there’s a catch: The ways smart phones, laptops and tablets interconnect work life and personal life raise serious security challenges for organizations—and the stakes are high.

McAfee has announced a new platform designed to help organizations take advantage of cloud computing in a safe, secure and efficient way.The McAfee Cloud Security Platform operates by securing all content and data traffic – including email, web and identity traffic – moving between an organization and cloud infrastructure.

Back on April 12, 2011, a report from independent security testing organization NSS Labs, warned of a vulnerability affecting industry-leading firewalls, including a sneak attack that could go unnoticed by most organizations. The dangerous vulnerability came in the form of a TCP Split Handshake Attack, an attack essentially being the TCP Equivalent of IP Spoofing.

Symantec Announces Updates Including Endpoint Protection 12, Protection Center 2.0, and Enterprise Vault 10

Fake Facebook Page Admin Notifications Trick Users Into Revealing Email and Postal Addresses Threat researchers from BitDefender are warning of a new scam spreading via Facebook that attempts to capture personal information including email and postal addresses.

While reading recent articles on the Sony breaches, I noticed many comments in the forums saying things like, “if you connect to the Internet, you should consider yourself breached.” Although I understand the sentiment, I can’t help but wonder, is it really that bad?

IT Security and data protection firm Sophos, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astaro, a privately held provider of network security solutions with $56 million in billings and 30% year over year growth in 2010.Astaro is the fourth largest dedicated unified threat management (UTM) provider with over 56,000 installations in over 60 countries. The company currently has more than 220 employees in nine countries spanning three continents, including a significant presence in the EMEA region.

Perhaps you've seen the videos late at night: through a rain swept windshield, a grainy camera image shows a state patrol officer on a lonely road approaching a stopped vehicle, its license plate obscured. The sound is muted, but shouting ensues, and then the driver first attacks the law officer then is on the ground. In a court of law, these videos provide a much needed third-party view of the incident, assuming the chain of custody is well documented. Now...

The recent theft of millions of names and email addresses from Epsilon, a major email marketing services provider, along with the theft of 77 million names, email addresses and other personally identifiable information from Sony, has highlighted two needs: better user education, and new and improved technological

Cloud based security services provider Zscaler, today announced that Lane Bess has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Bess was formerly CEO of nearby Palo Alto Networks, the company best known for its next generation firewalls.

Entrust today announced a Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to help banks transparently embed Entrust's strong authentication technology into new or existing mobile-banking applications.The Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Software Development Kit is available for popular mobile platforms, including Apple, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry and Java.

Migrating Email to a Cloud Provider? Understand How Email Architecture Works and How You can Use an Email Backbone to Your Advantage