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McAfee splashes $389 million for Stonesoft's firewall knowhow
Another independent security firm has been swallowed by the expanding McAfee empire with the news that Intel?s security play has agreed to pay $389 million (£250 million) in cash for small but innovative Finnish firm Stonesoft.
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Intrusion Prevention Systems fail to spot AET attacks, University study finds
Many big-brand Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) consistently fail to block attacks that target vulnerabilities in web-based applications using Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs), a University of Glamorgan study has found.
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Companies experience a malware event on their systems every three minutes, report says
Organisations face malware-related events that bypass traditional defense technologies on their networks every three minutes, according to a new report released Wednesday by security vendor FireEye.
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Cisco adds app performance to branch routers
Cisco this week extended the software capabilities of its ISR branch routers with previously separate security and application performance features, including WAN optimisation.
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HP to scale up TippingPoint network security with SDN
Hewlett-Packard plans to use its recently announced SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention system across networks, overcoming the scale limitations of dedicated appliances.
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Eurograbber SMS Trojan steals ?36 million from online banks
A devastating Zeus Trojan attack was able to break the supposedly impregnable SMS authentication security used by a clutch of European banks, stealing ?36 million (£30 million) from tens of thousands of customers, security firm Check Point has revealed.
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Critical flaw found in software used by many industrial control systems
CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attackers to execute sensitive commands on the vulnerable devices without the need for authentication, according to a report from security consultancy Digital Bond.
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US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.
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Malware increasingly using DNS as C&C channel to avoid detection
The number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday.
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Google offers $1 million bounty for Chrome exploits
Google has withdrawn as a sponsor of next month's Pwn2Own hacking contest, and will instead put as much as $1 million (£630,000) up for grabs if researchers can exploit Chrome.
