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Gartner security survey: McAfee up, Trend Micro down
A Gartner report about the security software market out today shows that No. 2 ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed No. 3, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6% of the $19.1 billion market.
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Growing mobile malware threat swirls (mostly) around Android
Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive said Tuesday.
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Chinese rival bolsters search engine against Baidu with Alibaba partnership
China's Baidu has long dominated the country's search market. But a local rival to the company is bolstering its own search services with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
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Bit9, FireEye, Palo Alto Networks team to hit zero-day malware
Bit9 has teamed with FireEye and Palo Alto Networks, which each have sandboxing technologies, in order to share information related to zero-day attack code.
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McAfee LiveSafe integrates cloud and Intel chip security in one product
McAfee has announced LiveSafe, a premium software and security service it believes can shore up the failing edifice of antivirus protection using a mixture of encryption, cloud storage, password management, authentication and malware defence for PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones.
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CA Technologies buys Layer 7 for API insights
CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs).
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Intel acquires Mashery for planned services suite
Intel has purchased Mashery, a provider or API management tools, in the chip maker's latest move to expand into software and services.
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Samsung makes next move to challenge BlackBerry Enterprise Server
As Samsung seeks to challenge the dominance of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server platform in the business market, it has now struck a mobile device management technology deal with Absolute Software.
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Russian coder caught boasting about creating Flashback Mac Trojan
Prominent security blogger Brian Krebs has traced a Russian coder who appears to be happily taking credit for the most successful example of Mac OS X malware in history, last year's infamous Flashback Trojan.
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Rising cyber-nationalism leads to amplified cyber-mistrust
Though once a rare topic, today the air is filled with accusations of state-sponsored cyber-espionage and break-ins as the governments of US, China, Russia, Israel, India and Iran, among others, can be heard calling foreign cyberattacks a threat.
