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Security software vendor Sourcefire announced today a new kind of endpoint security solution called FireAMP that couples the power of big data analytics with real-time threat detection and prevention. The

Security researchers from various companies have uncovered the latest cyber weapon, nicknamed Sykipot. It appears to try to grab documents from high level executives within a variety of target organizations,

Security researches revealed vulnerabilities in ChromeOS this week at Black Hat, it was reported today by VentureBeat. By exploiting an issue in the pre-installed ScratchPad extension, the researchers were

Apple's enterprise sales of Macintosh computers surged again last quarter, this time by 66%. Last June, a similar surge made headlines. But these quarterly sales may indicate more sustainable

As enterprises face increasingly sophisticated and specialized risks, criminals seem to be taking a quality-over-quantity approach to malware, phishing and spamming. According to the IBM X-Force 2010 Trend and

Today Zynamics, a company that makes security analysis tools, announced that it has been acquired by Google. Zynamics specializes in tools for reverse engineering binary executables - in other

This week independent computer security testing organization AV-Comparatives named F-Secure as its product of the year for 2010. AV-Comparatives notes that being the overall best product of the year

The number of web sites infected with malware has doubled, according to Dasient's Q3 Malware Update. Planting malware on legitimate sites, through malvertising or other methods, is now the

It's been a busy week in enterprise-land, and with the kickoff of Enterprise 2.0 in Santa Clara, it's only going to get busier next week. This week saw some

As a follow-up to our article "What You Need to Know About Malvertising:" Dasient saw a spike in the number of websites hosting malware in Q2 of this year,

On September 14, 2009 New York Times readers were automatically redirected to a site hosting malmare thanks to an ad containing malicious code. On July 15 2010, TweetMeme was

Last week Sarah Perez reported that a game called Tap Snake, available in Android Market, was actually a mostly harmless piece of spyware. I took to the opportunity to

NSS Labs has released its latest report: Endpoint Protection Product Group Test Report: Host Intrusion Prevention. As in its recent socially engineered malware protection test, AVG and Panda received

Update: Google has lifted the suspension of the apps in question. Many news outlets, including ReadWriteWeb reported yesterday that the first piece of Android malware may have been discovered

Update 2: Please see our follow-up - the developer of the app in question has denied malicious intent. Mobile security firm Lookout announced today at the Black Hat security

A white paper released today by malware monitoring company Dasient identifies third party elements beyond the control of company webmasters as the biggest security holes in most enterprise web

This week NSS Labs released their Q2 2010 Corporate Endpoint Protection Products report. NSS has only publicly announced the two products it specifically recommends against: Panda's Internet Security 2010 (Enterprise)

iPhones are becoming a standard in the enterprise. And with the the iPhones, we are seeing a number of applications for a variety of different uses. The latest is an