MOUNTAIN VIEW - McAfee wants to make web searching a safe experience for users, which is why the company has announced two new solutions that it says will do just that. To be launched later this quarter, the first product is called McAfee Secure Search Service that leverages McAfee's SiteAdvisor to eliminate risky sites from
SAN JOSE - Finjan Inc., makers of secure web gateway products, has discovered a server controlled by hackers that contained more than 1.4 gigabytes of business and personal data stolen from infected PCs. Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center detected a Crimeserver, which was used as a command and control for the Crimeware that was executed
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. - Web 2.0 is all the rage, making users more productive by offering new programming methods and applications used on an Internet platform. We now have all sorts of new Web 2.0 applications available on the Internet from Google Apps to blogs to instant messaging. These offer us tremendous value when it
BOULDER, Co. - According to Webroot's State of Internet Security: Protecting Business Email report, there will be more than 42,000 spam e-mails for every single business e-mail account, or about 116 per day and that these threats are severely impacting businesses around the world during 2008. "We don't expect to contain [spam] as long as
DETROIT - By now, most e-mail users are wise to the scam of phishing - sending a spoofed e-mail message that appears to be from a legitimate business, such as a bank, which directs the recipient to a fake web site seeking verification of personal information such as passwords or credit card numbers. A new
NEW YORK - IBM is beefing up its service offerings for mid-sized businesses with new security and productivity solutions along with new tools and incentives to support partner growth in the mid-market space. "The latest Express Advantage offerings address some of the biggest pain points that our customers face and IBM's continued expansion of its
SAN DIEGO - Websense Security Labs discovered a new Chinese attack method that has infected hundreds of thousands of reputable websites where users are automatically redirected to a malicious site that installs a keylogger to capture sensitive information. According to Stephan Chenette, manager of Websense Security Labs, these attacks are originating from China and have
NEW YORK - Medium-sized businesses - companies with 100-999 employees - in the United States are on track to invest up to $7.8 billion on data storage and security this year, up 12 percent over 2007, according to AMI-Partners Inc. The IT market research firm's latest report on the subject, 2007 U.S. Medium Business Overview
ANN ARBOR - The environment for obtaining patents is changing, thanks in part to the April 2007 Supreme Court ruling in KSR International Co. v Teleflex Inc. (KSR), which essentially makes patents more difficult to obtain and enforce. Other movements are afoot that seek to broaden the rule-making authority of the U.S. Patent and Trademark
SAN FRANCISCO - I am going to talk about security, but more specifically, I am going to explore the evolving role of the security professional. In some organizations the senior security person is called the Chief Security Officer. Other companies use different titles?Vice President, Enterprise Security; CISO (chief information security officer); VP Security & Compliance,