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02/03/2012 Kaspersky buys out equity firm; keeps security company private CANCUN, Mexico — Kaspersky Labs cofounder and chief executive Eugene Kaspersky announced today that the Russian security company will not pursue an initial public offering in the forseeable future and will buy back the shares it sold to a private equity firm brought in 13 months ago to pursue an IPO. In January 2011, General Atlantic bought 20% of Kaspersky, [...] 
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02/03/2012 Faith in webmasters’ security rewarded-kinda CANCUN, Mexico — Kaspersky Labs senior security research Stefan Tanase knows all about the old adage “You never know until you ask.” Tanase conducted an experiment recently where he emailed the webmasters of 100 websites infected with malware informing them of the problem asking in return only for some data on the infections in the form [...]
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12/20/2011 Typosquatter hive targets holiday shoppers Every year the holiday season is a boon to typosquatters using scams to phish unsuspecting users of sensitive information or peddle rogue antivirus software. By Hillary O’Rourke, Contributor With the hassle of finding the best deal and coping with the constant crowds, online shopping has never been more popular for the holiday season. But with that ease [...]
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12/14/2011 Nitro attackers sending malicious emails using Symantec report By Hillary O’Rourke, Contributor The cybercriminals responsible for the Nitro attacks have certainly showed audacity in their latest move: Sending malicious emails claiming to be from security vendor Symantec with the company’s own report on those Nitro attacks. According to a Symantec blog post, the group, which is currently targeting chemical companies, is using the same [...]
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12/06/2011 Symantec launches mobile security evaluation, app assessment services Security assessment reviews an organization’s mobile security policies and technologies, evaluating the mobile security posture against a set of 15 core elements. Symantec’s consulting team is launching a mobile security assessment service, designed to assess a business’ mobile security policies and defensive technologies. The new service is an extension of the Symantec Security Program Assessment. Symantec created [...]
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11/17/2011 Rapid7 massive VC funding opens door to acquisitions, expansion and maybe IPO? Vulnerability management company Rapid7, commercial home of the Metasploit Project, announced today it has secured $50 million in venture funding from Technology Crossover Ventures of Palo Alto, Calif. The company said it will use the money for new hires, international expansion and to explore acquisitions. Bigger picture, Rapid7 could also position itself for an initial [...]
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11/16/2011 Cloud security among PCI Council 2012 special interest groups The PCI Security Standards Council announced the latest slate of special interest groups that it will prioritize next year. Merchants, financial institutions, service providers and others voted on a variety of potential SIGs before settling on cloud, ecommerce security and risk assessment. This is the first time SIG selection was put to a vote, and more [...]
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11/03/2011 Report: ‘R&D is under attack’ from China, Russia According to a U.S. intelligence report made available to Congress, foreign nations and other actors are using cyberespionage to take sensitive technology and trade data, and those actions pose a threat to American interests. Reuters reported Thursday that in a report titled “Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace,” the Office of the National Counterintelligence [...]
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11/02/2011 Secunia brings own spin to vulnerability rewards programs Another day, another vulnerability reporting reward program. Kinda. Secunia, a vulnerability management vendor from Denmark, is the latest to join the bounty brigade, but it is bringing its spin to the market. Secunia’s new Secunia Vulnerability Coordination Reward Program is another platform for researchers to report software security flaws, but Secunia goes a step further and offers [...]
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11/01/2011 Windows zero-day flaw used in Duqu attacks Security researchers said Tuesday the Duqu Trojan used a Word document that exploits a Microsoft zero-day vulnerability in order to infect computers. Microsoft said it’s working to address the flaw. Researchers at the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySys) in Budapest, Hungary, uncovered the installer file, the Word document, which Symantec researchers said exploits a [...]
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