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  • Microsoft Updates Endpoint Forefront Products

    Microsoft updated two endpoint security products in the Forefront family this week, as it continues to position security as not only a means of protecting assets but of allowing companies and their employees to get their jobs done. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 acts as a Web security gateway and is an upgrade from a…

  • U.S. Government Calls Cisco, Juniper Gear Vulnerable to Hackers

    (Reuters) – The U.S. government has identified flaws in equipment from four companies, including Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O), that hackers can exploit to break into corporate computer networks. The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-CERT, said on its website on Wednesday that the warning applies to certain networking products from Cisco,…

  • Websense Protects URL Shortening Service bit.ly

    Websense announced this week that it started working with bit.ly to prevent hackers from abusing the shortening service and tricking users into visiting sites hosting malicious content. One of the leading URL shortening services for social networking sites such as Twitter, bit.ly and others like it have been subject to a wide spectrum of chicanery…

  • Northrop Grumman Founds Cybersecurity Consortium

    Defense contractor Northrop Grumman addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week to announce a new private sector-academic cybersecurity consortium that it hopes will accelerate research to address growing threats to government and private-sector infrastructure. The results could put the system integrator at an even bigger advantage within the government security market .…

  • Webroot Launches New Web Protection, E-Mail Archiving Products

    Webroot released two products to the channel this week that its leaders believe will enable the channel to help customers better satisfy their web and e-mail risk and compliance requirements. The first release was an update to its SaaS Web Security Service which extends the service to outbound threat detection and adds more heuristic techniques…

  • Microsoft Says Security Updates Not Causing ‘Black Screen of Death’

    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it could find no evidence that recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some have dubbed the "black screen of death." The problem, which has caused a small number of users to see a completely black screen after logging on, was…

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