Symantec has announced Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program that combines Symantec security consulting expertise with Symantec global threat intelligence to help...

Data Storage company EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire RSA Security Inc. for USD 28 per share in cash or nearly USD 2.1 billion, net of RSA's existing cash balance...

Juniper Networks has announced that Telge Energi, a utility-based, government-owned communications provider in Sweden, has deployed the E320 Broadband Services Router...

WatchGurad Technologies Inc., a provider of network security solutions, has launched its Firebox X Edge e-Series integrated security appliances, designed for remote or branch...

Symantec has announced Norton Confidential, an online transaction security scheduled to release for Windows and the Mac OS X operating system this fall. It will include anti-phising...

Japan's technology sector has been hit by another security breach, in the latest of a string of incidents that have raised questions about the safety of consumer internet services in the country. NTT Card Solution, a unit of Nippon...

Skype is planning to improve the identity authentication process of its voice over IP telephony system to help reassure business users. Skype, which is owned by eBay, plans to enhance the username authentication process so users know...

Bit9 has compiled a list of the top 15 applications with known vulnerabilities. Often running outside of IT’s knowledge or control, these popular applications run undetected by enterprise IT organizations and are difficult to detect and...

Late last week, Microsoft had published an alert warning Excel users of a type of malware. Again, earlier this week, a second vulnerability in the spreadsheet software was reported by a hacker that is documented here. Microsoft's Security...

Symantec's release of Norton 360, previously codenamed Genesis, is dependent on response to user trials and would be held back if required tweaks meant it would miss the key holiday period in the United States, according to a Reuters...

CipherTrust has unveiled the latest version of the company’s gateway security appliance, IronMail 6.5, which includes two new distinct modules – the Advanced Compliance Module and the Image Analysis Module (both powered by CipherTrust’s patented...

FaceTime Security Labs announced the discovery of a worm that steals users' banking details, usernames and passwords. The worm, known as MW.Orc, is propagating through Orkut, Google's social networking site, as users launch an executable...

A security flaw in the PayPal web site is being actively exploited by fraudsters to steal credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to PayPal users. The issue was reported to Netcraft today via our anti-phishing toolbar...

China has sent its Cyber War troops into action during peacetime. Recently, Taiwan's defense ministry network was hacked in a clever way, so that an "official" press release could be sent out, describing, in unflattering terms, a current...

Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia opened up TechEd 2006 in Boston Sunday evening by proclaiming that Windows Vista was the most secure operating system in the industry. But a bold statement can only go so far, and much of this week's conference has been spent reinforcing...

The bad blood between Cisco Systems Inc. and organizers of the Black Hat conference appears to be a thing of the past. One year after suing the hacker conference for allowing security researcher Michael Lynn to disclose a security vulnerability...

Juniper Networks, Inc. today announced that it continues to be the market share leader in the Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) market, according to Infonetics Research, Inc.’s recent report titled, "Network Security..

Symantec has agreed to port Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Storage Foundation family and NetBackup recovery technology to the Linux on POWER platform. Symantec has agreed to support IBM's Linux on Power platform by porting its high...

A computer virus that targets the popular file-sharing program Winny isn't the most destructive bug or even the most widespread. But it's the most talked about in Japan as it generates headline after headline, month after month...

Juniper Networks has announced its next-generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) platform and new security management software designed to provide increased application visibility and control across the network. The new IDP version...