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Iron Mountain today announced that Richard Reese, Chairman of the Iron Mountain Board of Directors, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, replacing Bob Brennan, who is stepping down.

As the United States and other countries prepare for the transition to a smarter electrical grid, the industry focus has been on getting smart grids themselves up and running, often with little consideration for cyber security issues.

Chase Card Services, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co., announced that it will soon issue chip-and-signature, a credit card with EMV chip technology that provides consumers with better ease-of-use and stronger security while traveling abroad. Claiming to be the first major U.S bank to do so, Chase will first unveil chip-and-signature on the JPMorgan Palladium credit card in June, a card serving customers who frequently travel abroad, and later to other Chase credit cards within the year.

Managing Risk in the Modern World - Focus on What You Can Change and Affect, and Then Deal With What Nature and the Universe Send Your Way.A Walk Through LoganI boarded a plane in Boston on a recent business trip, and my trip to and through the airport made me realize a few important facts about security, from the parking lot through screening and even with respect to the signs around the airport and what’s being carried on the television...

Following the successful takedown of the Bredolab and Rustock botnets in November 2010 and March 2011, respectively, authorities have fired shots at another botnet.The botnet, know as “Coreflood,” is believed to have been operating for nearly a decade and to have infected more than two million computers globally throughout its existence.

Developing StoryAutomattic, the parent company that operates WordPress, made an announcement this morning that it has been hacked, resulting what the company said was a low-level (root) break-in to several of their servers. The company warned that potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed to the attackers, including client source code.

General Electric today announced its plans to open an Information Security Technology Center in Glen Allen, Virginia that will house teams specializing in cyber security, as well as network design, architecture, data management, and application development.

Log Management in Different Cloud Environments can be Challenging - But Having Access to Log Data is Essential In Order to Get the Visibility You need to Optimize and Secure your Cloud Environment.

In an effort to increase the level of protection against Advanced Persistent Threats targeting the manufacturing and process industry, McAfee and Siemens have partnered together, today announcing that Siemens-Division Industry Automation is officially tested and compatible with McAfee Application Control.

New Product Family Delivers Secure, Unified Network Access and Application Control SolutionsJuniper Networks today announced availability of the Juniper Networks MAG Series Junos Pulse Gateways, designed to provide a single point of convergence for managing the secure network connectivity for the mobile workforce.

Waltham, Massachusetts based Bit9 Inc., a provider of endpoint security solutions, announced today that it has raised $12.5 million in funding, bringing the total raised by the company over the past year to $23 million.

ESET today announced the availability of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux, the company's new security solutions for corporate workstations and home computers running Linux.

Guide To Securing Databases Breaks Down Very Complicated Endeavor Into Set of Simple Process Maps, Associated Metrics To Guide Implementation and Define Success

According to a report released today by Commtouch, malware sent via email increased by 400% in the last week of March 2011. Commtouch says this significant increase was detected two weeks after the Rustock botnet was taken down.The rustock botnet was taken down in early March by an effort headed by Microsoft in cooperation with authorities and the legal system. Following the takedown, when the Rustock botnet was no longer cranking out spam by the billions, global spam volumes fell...

Looking to move beyond traditional Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), McAfee today announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, including enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other analysis engines.