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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.

Oracle today announced Oracle Enterprise Gateway, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g that secures, accelerates, integrates and routes XML, Web Services and other types of data to help lower integration costs and reduce deployment risks.

Few would doubt that insiders – those allowed access to certain IT resources within your organization – have the potential to wreak considerable damage. That's true whether they're scheming to physically damage IT systems, destroy the data held within them, or steal customer or corporate data to sell to criminals or competitors.

EMC today announced that it has acquired Virginia-based NetWitness Corporation, a privately-held provider of network security analysis solutions.

Major Breach at Epsilon, the World's Largest Permission Based Email Marketing Services Company, Affects Wide Range of Major Brands - List Continues to Grow

Epsilon Data Breach Update: Other Epsilon customers affected by the breach include JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Marriott Rewards,  McKinsey's online publication, McKinsey Quartery, specialty apparel chain New York & Company, Inc. and TiVo.

A report released this week coming from the largest association of data center professionals has suggested that with budget constraints and a tough economy, data center operators have been focused on immediate needs and paying less attention to disaster recovery planning and protecting against cyber attacks.

Bank of America announced this week that is has hired Patrick Gorman as chief information security officer and be responsible for the bank's information security strategy, policy and program.

Go ahead and click on the Viagra emails you’ve been warned about. Hackers don’t need to appeal to your libido to break into the company computer system. They have other compelling ways. These days they’ve been hanging around inside the network, building up profiles on company employees. By the time they have enough information and let loose their malware, you won’t even know that you were an unwilling accomplice in an advanced persistent threat.

A major milestone for DNSSEC has been reached today, as this morning DNSSEC was officially signed for the .Com TLD. Following several other Top Level Domains already supporting DNSSEC, the added level of security can now be enabled for the more than 90 million .Com names which have been registered according to VeriSign, the operator of .com.

Aggressive initiatives by the makers of popular Web browsers including Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to improve the security of their Web browsers appear to be paying off.According to the Q3-Q4 Web Application Security Trends Report released today by Web application security firm Cenzic, the big Web browser companies seem to be paying very close attention to security, with many proactively seeking vulnerabilities by offering rewards or “bounties,” and seem to be efficient at fixing vulnerabilities in a timely manner.