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The ASIS Commission on Standards and Guidelines has released a draft of the Facilities Physical Security Measures Guideline. The purpose of this new guideline is to describe …

McAfee, Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned Reconnex for $46 million in cash. Reconnex is a leading data loss prevention company with unique …

Nmap author Fyodor will soon be releasing Nmap Network Scanning, the official guide to the Nmap Security Scanner. From port scanning basics for novices to the type of packet …

Eighty percent of malware distributed worldwide consisted of Trojans according to the “E-Threats Landscape Report,” the first in a series of comprehensive security …

Recently an exploit has become publicly available which may impact the availability, confidentiality or integrity of WebLogic Server applications which use the Apache web …

The most common way a user gets infected these days is through drive-by downloads and while the prevalence of malicious email attachments definately has gone down, this trend …

The US has continued its rule as the most prevalent source of spam and viruses, according to threat statistics analysed by managed security company, Network Box. The country …

Lumeta today warned that, as industries connect their previously isolated Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to their larger TCP/IP networks to gain …

ArcSight announced a new release of ArcSight that provides “forensics on the fly.” This capability, now available across the entire ArcSight SIEM platform, enables …

SentryBay has launched PhishLock, a real-time solution which protects users of a company’s web site from phishing attacks. PhishLock offers protection in real-time and …

Deep Nines Inc. announced today that it won its patent infringement lawsuit against competitor McAfee, Inc. On July 15, 2008, a unanimous jury in the Beaumont Division of the …

Radware announced it has found a vulnerability that may cause application Denial of Service (DoS) in Firefox 3, Mozilla’s latest Web browser application. Discovered by …