Web traffic analytics firm Solera Networks is expected to announce Monday that it has raised $20 million from Intel Capital, chip leader Intel’s (INTC) VC unit, and other investors.
Salt Lake City-based Solera Networks uses deep-packet inspection techn…
Today there are over 5 billion intelligent, connected devices. The leading technology analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) is predicting the number will rise to 15 billion by 20151. Our reliance on embedded devices is growing as embedded d…
The former college student imprisoned for hacking the email account of Sarah Palin has had his appeal against the charge on which he was convicted rejected by a US court.
David Kernell, who has already been released after serving 11 months for his hack…
Music industry chiefs must have been pleased to hear that the maker of pig-squishing iPhone game Angry Birds has learned from its mistakes in combating piracy.
Contrasting the music industry’s ignore-then-crush approach to piracy to his own softly-soft…
Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monitor network traffic flow, detect possible intrusions and analyse event logs.
The MetaFlows Security System (MSS…
Austrian student activists say they expect to meet Facebook representatives in Vienna next Monday in an attempt to resolve their disagreements over the social-networking site’s privacy policies.
The student group Europe v. Facebook filed complaints abo…
Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web security firm Websense.
It’s not clear how the websites are being compromised, but there are publicly kn…
How important is it to secure and monitor Microsoft SharePoint?Source: Information WeekTags: SecurityMicrosoft
A banking Trojan now spreading over the internet is able to get past captcha security challenges to send out emails and propagate itself, according to security company Websense Labs.
The Cridex Trojan variant infects a Windows PC when a malicious link …
New malware targeting Android smartphones and mobile devices has been uncovered by F Secure.
The Trojan, which the security company has christened with the catchy name Trojan:Android/FakeRegSMS.B hides a PNG file that allows it to hijack a person’s pho…
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