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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 280 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: trend micro snaps ukbased email crypto firm comments Discuss  
Scrambling for safetyTrend Micro, the security firm best known for its PC-cillin anti-virus software, has acquired UK-based email encryption firm Identum. Terms of the deal, announced Monday, were undisclosed.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 269 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn cuttingedge pdp tech leaked chinese firm comments Discuss  
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2008030681038dongA.comMarch 06, 2008 A new plasma display panel technology developed by LG Electronics has been leaked to a Chinese company, dealing a loss of one trillion won, or more than one billion dollars, to the Korean economy.Seoul prosecutors indicted yesterday a former LG manager for corporate espionage. The 49-year-old man, identified only by his last name Jeong, allegedly leaked the new technology to Changhong-Orion PDP-Chaihong of Chi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 222 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn rupert murdoch firm trial alleged tech sabotage comments Discuss  
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/04/murdochBy Kim Zetter Wired.com04.21.08Did a Rupert Murdoch company go too far and hire hackers to sabotage rivals and gain the top spot in the global pay-TV war?This is the question a jury will be facing in a spectacular five-year-old civil lawsuit that is finally being tried this month in California but which has, oddly, received little notice from U.S. media.The case involves a colorful cast of characters that includes former intelligence agents, Canadian T read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 217 days ago
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/hacker-in-murdo.htmlBy Kim Zetter Threat LevelWired.comApril 25, 2008An American hacker who is at the core of a piracy trial against a Rupert Murdoch subsidiary, testified this week that he created pirating software for the company but did not use it to sabotage the company's rivals.Earlier this week I laid out the case against NDS Group, a UK-Israeli firm and a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation. The company is accused of reverse-engineering ac read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 213 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: us firm fined violations related hb program comments Discuss  
A U.S. provider of outsourcing and IT services has agreed to pay civil penalties of $45,000 to settle allegations that it discriminated against U.S. residents when attempting to hire foreign workers holding H-1B visas, the U.S. Department of Justice announced late Thursday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 196 days ago
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http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200805172662By Andrew ClevengerStaff writerThe Charleston GazetteMay 18, 2008For a time, the ads were everywhere on TV and radio, the ones with the head of a security company brazenly challenging would-be thieves to try to steal his identity.Richard Todd Davis, CEO of LifeLock Inc., was so confident in his company's ability to protect his identity that he publicly revealed his Social Security number: 457-55-5462.But according to a new class-action lawsuit filed last week in Ja read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 151 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: expect iphone fourth july scams security firm says comments Discuss  
4Apple's launch of its new iPhone 3G will produce a flurry of spam and scams, a security company warned Thursday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 126 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: sophos bids m data loss firm comments Discuss  
Prevention is better than cureUK-based net security firm Sophos has launched a €217m ($342m) bid to buy data loss prevention firm Utimaco. Sophos intends to offer €14.75 per Utimaco share, a premium of 92 per cent on its closing price of €7.68 on Friday.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 122 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: mcafee snaps data loss prevention firm comments Discuss  
Playing leapfrog with ReconnexMcAfee has agreed to pay $46m to buy data loss prevention firm Reconnex. The deal, announced Thursday and expected to close in the third quarter of 2008, follows a string of acquisitions in the data loss prevention (DLP) arena.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 98 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:17:13 -0500 (CDT)http://www.courant.com/business/hc-debix0822.artaug22,0,3146872.storyBy JANICE PODSADA Courant Staff WriterAugust 22, 2008Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Thursday that she wants an investigation into a company the state hired to offer credit monitoring to people affected by a security breach involving a stolen Department of Revenue Services laptop computer.The laptop contained Social Security numbers and bank account information read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 88 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: secure computing snaps user control firm securify comments Discuss  
Pimp My FirewallSecurity appliance firm Secure Computing has bought user access monitoring and control firm Securify, in a deal valued at up to $20m ($15m guaranteed in cash and stock, plus an earn-out of up to $5m).… read more »
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