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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Malware attacks have skyrocketed at the fastest pace in four years, according to a second-quarter Threat Report by security software maker McAfee, a subsidiary of Intel. The firm said it had found more than 8 million new kinds of malware during the second quarter, a 23 percent increase from the previous quarter. There are now more than 90 million unique strands of malware in existence, including new threats like mobile...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Norton by Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) today released the findings of its annual Norton Cybercrime Report, one of the world's largest consumer cybercrime studies. The study is aimed at understanding how cybercrime affects consumers, and how the adoption and evolution of new technologies impacts people's security. With findings based on self-reported experiences of more than 13,000 adults across 24 countries, the 2012 edition of the...

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the launch of its new 2013 consumer product lineup which includes Panda Antivirus Pro 2013, Panda Internet Security 2013 and Panda Global Protection 2013. These cloud-based solutions, designed to provide complete protection with minimum impact on PC performance, are now available for purchase at major consumer electronics retailers and department stores. Panda Security has...

GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Corporate Endpoint Server Security Solutions markets. The global market for Corporate Endpoint Server Security Solutions is projected to register US$875.9 million by 2018, primarily driven by growing instances of security breaches, hacking and malware attacks on corporate endpoints, and the immediate need to ensure safety of IT infrastructure. Growing adoption of advanced technologies such as server virtualization and cloud...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It’s alive! Well, not quite, but UT Dallas computer scientists have created a new software that helps develop defense against new kinds of attacks, and in essence it is a monster of sorts. The UT Dallas team, headed by Dr. Kevin Hamlen, associate professor of computer science, created software that can cloak itself as it steals and reconfigures information in a computer program. But Hamlen and doctoral student Vishwath Mohan didn’t...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning October 20(th), 2012, residents and businesses with 408 phone numbers must dial 1+ the area code + phone number when making all direct dial calls. This change paves the way for an additional area code (669) for new telephone lines and services in the same geography. The 408 Public Education Program (408 PEP) participants, a consortium of landline and wireless telecommunications providers in cooperation with the California...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Career criminal Willie Sutton never actually said that he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is,” and he actually said, “Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it.” Today’s cyber-criminals don’t create banking malware because they love it; they do it because the malware is aimed at banks and “that’s where the money is.” This week Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab introduced new version of...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The devil is often in the details, and sometimes those details can provide would-be sleuths with clues. This is certainly the case in the new mystery virus known as “Shamoon,” which was discovered by researchers at Symantec and McAfee last week. Also known as “Disttrack,” the virus is notable in that it contains the string “wiper” in the Windows file directory that its developers used when compiling it. The malware...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online At one time or another, most computer users have gotten that email that warns of a super virus that has the potential to overwrite the master boot record of a computer and delete the entire hard drive. This threat sounds so outrageous that it is hard to take it seriously. However, this week, reports of the “Shamoon” malware emerged and this one could be the real deal. Also known as “Disttrack,” it was discovered by...

Page-Level Site Categorization Backed by Comprehensive Brand Safety Makes Programmatic Buying Easy Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) August 16, 2012 Lijit Networks, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Federated Media Publishing, today announced new inventory packaging capabilities and brand safety measures implemented on the Lijit Exchange to help brand marketers granularly and cost effectively target consumers. In addition to new in-house optimization processes, Lijit is working with Peer39 to...