Security News Desk

Security Jounal Business users can easily fall victim to malicious links in e-mail, instant messages, and rogue or compromised Web sites. In a single click of the mouse, a user can unwittingly access a Web page that installs malware and other unwanted software on the user’s PC,... (more)

Security Journal on Ulitzer WinMagic (www.winmagic.com), a full-disk encryption vendor and innovator, today announced that it has joined the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) at the Contributor Level. WinMagic has been working independently with the self-encrypting drive manufactur... (more)

How can you manage the cloud so you – and your data – sleep safe and secure? In an Live Webcast and Interview from Times Square today October 8, at 2:00PM EDT, Sam Gross, vice president, Global Information Technology Outsourcing Solutions, Unisys Corporation, will answer these qu... (more)

In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures -- the ant. Unlike traditional security devices, which are static, these "digital ants" wander through computer n... (more)

Web 2.0 applications, hosted services and social networks are examples of how today's Internet is redefining the way people interact with one another and how businesses and organizations use and manage critical applications. The rapid expansion of choices and the high number of u... (more)

WinMagic, a provider of disk encryption, today announced an agreement with Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), to support Intel Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT). Combining WinMagic’s SecureDoc full-disk encryption with Intel AT will provide organizations worldwide with fully-integr... (more)

Today's online thieves will take advantage of any opportunity to steal anything you've got: your money, your identity, even your good name. And their methods are getting more devious and sophisticated every day. In fact, Symantec blocked an average of more than 245 million attemp... (more)

KACE has announced it has entered into a joint marketing and technology partnership with Bomgar Corporation. Under this agreement, KACE and Bomgar now provide their customer base with full lifecycle systems management support, inclusive of comprehensive remote control capabilitie... (more)

Canadian federal officials will participate in a large scale security exercise known as National Level Exercise 09 (NLE 09), led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Canadian officials will work with their international counterparts in an exercise responding to a simulate... (more)

Any organization that needs to meet SOX, HIPAAA or PCI compliance guidelines values best-practice guidance to ensure proper settings for its IT environment. Better still, it values software that implements such best practices. That is where Los Angeles based SysOp Tools comes int... (more)

Cisco has released the Cisco® 2009 Midyear Security Report, which shows that Internet criminals are increasingly operating like successful businesses, borrowing some of the best strategies from legitimate companies and forming partnerships with one another to help make their ille... (more)

'Organizations of all shapes and sizes can get access to Google's industry leading security and compliance technologies,? said Scott Petry, Google's director of product management, as Google this week announced a series of security products Powered by Postini that deliver message... (more)

Dell won't be getting its 10-K out any time soon. It's gonna blow through April 3, the day the 10-K is due, and April 18, the extension date. It's gonna add the annual report for the year ended February 2 to the pile of paperwork it already owes the SEC, It says it's waiting for i... (more)

Jeff Christian, the guy who started Christian & Timbers and the headhunter who got Carly Fiorina the CEO job at HP, is going to be tried for reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of another executive recruiter, 31-year-old Thomas Wasil, accordi... (more)

There are times when it looks like AMD is running Intel's design department. This is definitely one of them. Intel disclosed Wednesday that it'll be following AMD down the path of squeezing its previously separate memory controller onto the processor die. Integrating the memory c... (more)

Remember Ron Garriques, the guy that Michael Dell hired a month ago to run his new consumer unit, the guy who used to run Motorola's mobile devices business? Well, Wednesday Motorola up and reorganized, warning of unexpected Q1 losses and complaining about the unprofitable, "unac... (more)

AMD may be teetering on the brink of financial disaster but if it does go down for the count it can comfort itself with the knowledge that it made it to eight-largest semiconductor house in the world last year, up from 15th on the back of a 91.6% increase in revenues, according t... (more)

A Colorado start-up by the name of Secure64 Software Corporation claims to be the only company in the world with a genuinely secure operating system. Let's just let that worrisome thought sink in a minute. Okay, now. This here start-up calls its operating system SourceT micro OS - ... (more)

CNBC's inimitable Jim Cramer told his investor following last night to stay away from IBM until they heard that IBM CEO Sam Palmisano was gone. Since taking over the company five years ago, Palmisano has returned 1% to stockholders, Cramer said, "you might as well have your money... (more)

EMC is going to IPO 10% of VMware this summer. It'll give VMware a recruiting and retention incentive and money that's not EMC's to grow on. It's also supposed to increase the visibility into VMware's performance and signal that the company is committed to its open platform strate... (more)