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Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online On Thursday PandaLabs, the anti-malware of Panda Security, announced that it had released new data that found cases of the so-called “Police Virus” are on the rise. However, this type of crime, known as ransomware or scareware, is not new. It holds a user’s computer hostage and demands payment – but does so by scaring users by claiming to come from legitimate law enforcement. Text that accompanies the warning – which can be...

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security, has released new data around the rise of the 'Police Virus.' Despite the arrest of the cyber-criminals allegedly responsible for the 'Police Virus' ransomware attacks, this infamous piece of malware has continued to infect thousands of computers around the world, according to data gathered by PandaLabs from December 2012 to February 2013. The vast majority of these infections...

CHANTILLY, Va., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PhishMe Inc., the leading provider of security behavior management services that improve employees' resilience towards spear phishing, malware, and drive-by attacks, today announced the availability of several new features based on patent pending technologies. These new additions include: PhishMe's Highly Visible Targets Identifier, Benchmarking, and a new simulation type, the Double Barrel, or the ability to emulate an interactive...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the network security company, today released its Application Usage and Threat Report. This 10th edition of the report is the first version to compile and correlate data on application usage and threat activity. Based on analysis of network traffic of more than 3,000 organizations between May and December 2012, the report is the network security industry's most comprehensive examination of application...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PhishMe Inc., the leader in spear-phishing awareness training, today announced that its CEO and co-founder, Rohyt Belani, will present at both Security B-Sides and RSA 2013 in San Francisco next week. Co-presenting with Brandon Dunlap of non-profit EnergySec, Rohyt will explain why spear-phishing attacks are a major threat to U.S. critical infrastructure - namely, our Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. As the U.S....

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Securonix, the leader in Security Intelligence software announced today the general availability of Securonix version 4.0. The release combines external global threat intelligence with internal local threat intelligence on users, systems and activities down to the transaction level. In addition, the intelligence can be applied in real time for prevention and rapid detection of threats. Through the unified view of IT risk, Securonix...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online On Monday, security firm Mandiant released a report which claims the Chinese military has a secret branch used to commit cyberattacks against the US, Canada, the UK and other English-speaking countries. The Friday before, Facebook, the world’s largest social network, announced they had been targeted by a “sophisticated attack” a month before, though no data was stolen. Just yesterday, Apple also announced a similar...

OTTAWA, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - AFORE Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of cloud, security and management solutions, today announced their CloudLink® CypherX APT Defender solution which allows businesses and government organizations to protect data from insider threats and advanced persistent threats (APT) on premise and in the cloud. CloudLink CypherX APT Defender is a game-changing data protection solution which places applications in secure virtual containers,...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Apple announced today they’re the latest to be attacked by the same hackers who targeted Facebook last Friday. Not surprisingly, these hackers used Oracle’s dangerous software platform Java to exploit computers located at Apple’s 1 Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino. Apple is now calling these attacks the “widest known cyber attacks” against Macs to date. These cybercriminals infected a software developer website...

ATLANTA, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference -- Lancope, Inc., a leader in network visibility and security intelligence, has released the newest version of its award-winning StealthWatch(®) System to further improve security and network operations for governments and large enterprises. Delivering advanced levels of network insight, StealthWatch 6.3 enables organizations to reduce the risks associated with sophisticated cyber-attacks while significantly enhancing their...