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CA Acquires a company for their identity management technology
Computer Associates (CA) has acquired IDFocus LLC and its identity management technology, ACE. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to the CA …
Adware figures grow in Q3 because of fake antivirus products
Panda Security announced that Adware increased more than any other type of malware during the third quarter of the year. Adware accounted for 31.05 percent of all new malware …
New patent for protecting computers from hostile downloadables
Finjan announced that the European Patent Office has granted the company Patent No. EP 0 965 094 B1 entitled “System and Method for Protecting a Computer and a Network …
Intercage demise linked to 8 percent decline in spam
MessageLabs analysis highlights an eight percent decline in spam since August due in large part to the demise of California-based ISP Intercage on September 20. However, …
NSA shows the way to develop secure systems
The development of highly secure, low defect software will be dramatically helped by the release of the Tokeneer research project to the open source community by the US …
Exploiting Windows systems through ActiveSync
As of ActiveSync 4.0, Microsoft has incorporated the Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) into creation of a syncing session between a Windows Mobile device …
Software for erasing sensitive smartphone data
Aiko Solutions announced the public release of SecuWipe, the first data erasure utility for PDAs and Smartphones. Operating Smartphones poses a great risk since they can store …
Biometric Security for Financial Meltdown Solutions
Wall Street was dominated by 5 major investment banking firms at the beginning of 2008. Nine months later, only 2 of these investment banking firms remain. This is probably …
Cracking one billion passwords per second with NVIDIA video cards
The new release of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery reaches the recovery speed of one billion passwords per second by employing several NVIDIA video accelerators. …
SSL VPN for virtual environments
New AEP Netilla SSL VPN Virtual Edition is a pre-packaged software-only virtual appliance that streamlines secure remote application access installations on virtual server …
Portable fingerprint reader for Windows and Mac OS X
UPEK announces the general availability of the Eikon To Go; a portable version of their award winning Eikon Digital Privacy Manager. The Eikon To Go is the first truly …
Secure Computing completes acquisition of Securify
Secure Computing today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Securify, a provider of identity-based monitoring solutions. A month ago, when the acquistion was
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