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LAS VEGAS, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced that PandaLabs technical director Luis Corrons and threat researcher Sean-Paul Correll will deliver a presentation at Security BSides Las Vegas 2010 this Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. entitled "Catch That Butterfly: Stopping Mariposa in its Tracks and Revealing a Growing Underground Network of Amateur Hackers." In their presentation, Correll and Corrons will provide an unprecedented look into how a...

CUPERTINO, Calif., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Even though more workplaces are regulating social networking sites, employees are finding ways around security roadblocks, making social networking a way of office-life around the world. Trend Micro's 2010 corporate end user survey, which included 1600 end users(1) in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan, found that globally, social networking at the workplace steadily rose from 19 percent in 2008 to 24 percent in 2010(2). The highest surge of social...

Vircom's latest modusGate(TM) email security gateway scores outstanding 0.04% FP and ranks amongst the best anti-spam products around the world with the VBSpam Verified Certification program. MONTREAL, July 6 /PRNewswire/ - In what has been the most participated-in test since the creation of the VBSpam certification scheme, Vircom scores a home run with modusGate(TM) Email Security Gateway software and receives a VBSpam Verified Certification with a ground breaking 0.04% false positives...

ATLANTA, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta-based SecureWorks®, a leading, global provider of security services protecting 2,800 clients worldwide, announced today that its Counter Threat Unit(SM) (CTU) researchers, Joe Stewart and Jason Milletary, will present at the 22nd Annual FIRST Conference in Miami, FL, June 13-18. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together computer security incident response teams...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Zscaler today released its Q1 2010 State of the Web report. The report details the enterprise threat landscape and the variety of Web-based issues plaguing Internet users. Among numerous findings, the report details several growing threat vectors, including attackers leveraging search engines and growing fake anti-virus threats. Here are some of the top findings detailed in the new Zscaler State of the Web report: Google services (search,...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently reported that it shut down an internet firm that has been linked to many of the internet's criminal gangs. The FTC said Belize-based 3FN supported gangs that ran botnets, carried out phishing scams and traded images of child abuse. 3FN servers and hardware have been seized and will be sold off as the firm is dismantled. 3FN operators must also pay back more than $1,000,000 they are accused to have made by hosting criminal sites. The FTC began its...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group will host the GSMA Security Group at the MAAWG 19th General Meeting in Barcelona on June 8-10 with a multi-track event focusing on all forms of spam delivery, including mobile, broadband, terrestrial and Web messaging. The meeting will also feature an insiders' panel discussing the recent crackdown on the Mariposa botnet, sessions on mobile spam and abuse reporting technologies, and a look at critical technical...

ORLANDO, Fla., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Security, the Cloud Security company, today announced that Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, will take part in CeCOS IV (Counter-eCrime Operations Summit), the security conference organized by the Antiphishing Working Group on May 11-13 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This year's summit will focus on the development of response paradigms and resources for the forensic analysis of cyber-criminal activities. Panda Security will participate with...

MAHWAH, N.J., May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), a leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced the issuance of three United States Patents No. 7,617,170 "Generated Anomaly Pattern for HTTP Flood Protection", No. 7,624,084 "Method for Generating Anomaly Pattern for HTTP Flood Protection", and No. 7,607,170 "Stateful Attack Protection". These three patents cover a system, methodology, and approach to detect...

A news survey suggests that hi-tech cyber criminals are causing more than 100 attacks per second on computers around the world. The survey, conducted by Symantec, says that while most of the attacks have caused no immediate harm, one attack every 4.5 seconds does affect a computer. The annual report states that the wave of attacks was driven by a rise in malware (malicious software) in circulation. Symantec said that malware samples have risen almost 71 percent from 2008 to 2009. They report...