Electronic infrastructure at risk from EMP threat

The government needs to create a better plan for reacting to the threat of a major electro-magnetic pulse event, which could knock out much of the country’s critical electronic infrastructure, according to a report. The Defence Committee published a report today, entitled “Developing Threats: Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP)”, that highlights how…

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Norman’s Advanced Malware Analysis Platform Delivers Industry’s Most Powerful Data Mining and Threat Assessment …

FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Norman, a global security leader who delivers powerful malware analysis solutions for enterprise, service providers and government, announced the availability of the latest version of its Malware Analyzer G2 platform. This next generation malware analyzer platform now delivers: Analysis capabilities significantly beyond standard…

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AlienVault creates centralised threat detection system

Open-source security information and event management (SIEM) vendor AlienVault has launched a new system for sharing threat intelligence among users of its OSSIM platform. SIEM technology provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by network hardware and applications. While the technology is used widely, OSSIM claims to have the largest…

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Damballa Honored with Frost & Sullivan 2011 New Product Innovation Award for Cyber Threat Protection

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Damballa Inc., the company transforming the fight against cyber threats, today announced that it received the Frost Sullivan 2011 North American New Product Innovation Award in Cyber Threat Protection for the recently released Damballa Failsafe 5.0. The Frost Sullivan Best Practices Research Report evaluated available solutions for addressing…

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Damballa Honored with Frost & Sullivan 2011 New Product Innovation Award for Cyber Threat Protection

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Damballa Inc., the company transforming the fight against cyber threats, today announced that it received the Frost Sullivan 2011 North American New Product Innovation Award in Cyber Threat Protection for the recently released Damballa Failsafe 5.0. The Frost Sullivan Best Practices Research Report evaluated available solutions for addressing…

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Anonymous hacker fails to act on Norton code threat

A hacker linked with the release of Symantec PCAnywhere code has not yet followed through on a threat to release source code for Symantec Norton antivirus. The hacker, ‘Yamatough’, said he would release the Norton antivirus (NAV) source code ‘within seven hours’ on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Yamatough’s Twitter feed, and…

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