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RSA Leverages TrendMicro Technology in New Deal
RSA announced this week that it will tap TrendMicro technology to add a higher level of real-time threat intelligence to the RSA FraudAction Service, which is operated by RSA’s ’round-the-clock Anti-Fraud Command Center. The new partnership links FraudAction with TrendMicro Smart Protection Network to leverage threat intelligence gathered by TrendMicro and bolster RSA’s ability to…
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Security: A Reason for Windows 7 Adoption
October’s Patch Tuesday—or as some in security circles have come to call “Terrible Tuesday”—contained fixes for more than 34 vulnerabilities, including one for Windows 7. Issuing a patch for an operating system that was still more than a week away from general availability would have been a black eye in the days of Windows 98,…
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Symantec Study Finds Fake Security Software Rampant
(Reuters) – Tens of millions of U.S. computers are loaded with scam security software that their owners may have paid for but which only makes the machines more vulnerable, according to a new Symantec report on cybercrime. Cyberthieves are increasingly planting fake security alerts that pop up when computer users access a legitimate website. The…
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TrendMicro Adds Net New Security Layer to Address Zero-Day Threats
Trend Micro on Tuesday unveiled a services solution that it says will enable the channel to offer customers better visibility into dynamic malware threat vectors through a net new technology layer. Dubbed Trend Micro Threat Management Services (TMS), the new offering provides early warning, containment and remediation of data-stealing malware infiltrations already within the network.…
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Sophos’ Top 5 Reasons Free DLP is Good for Partners
Sophos is now bundling a free data loss protection product with the sale of its network-based antivirus software in an effort to expose more end users to its technology and capture share from larger rivals Symantec and McAfee. >> READ the Channel Insider report on Sophos’ DLP iniatitive This is the second time in a…
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Twitter Suspends Security Researcher over Phishing Warning
Well-known security researcher Mikko Hypponen is back on Twitter after his account was suspended last week for a couple of days for including a link to a malicious Web site in a tweet. Here’s the rub: The offensive tweet was published in August and Hypponen was given no notice that his account was suspended. Hypponen,…