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Dell acquires Enstratius
06.05.2013
Dell today announced the acquisition of Enstratius, which helps organizations manage applications across private, public and hybrid clouds, including automated application provisioning and scaling, application configuration management, usage governance, and cloud utilization monitoring.
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McAfee to acquire Stonesoft
06.05.2013
McAfee and Stonesoft today announced a definitive agreement to initiate a conditional tender offer for the acquisition of Stonesoft for approximately $389 million in cash.
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Ex employee hacked into high-voltage power manufacturer's network
03.05.2013
A criminal complaint was unsealed on Thursday in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Michael Meneses - who was arrested earlier that day in Smithtown, Long Island - with hacking into the computer network of a company that manufactures high-voltage power supplies, causing the company over $90,000 in damage.
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Data breaches increase IT budgets
26.04.2013
Protecting brand reputation and observing security best practices should be organisation’s primary motivators for data protection, while meeting compliance requirements also remains a major driver facing IT today, according to Vormetric.
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UK govt gives money to SMEs for improving their cyber security
24.04.2013
More small businesses than ever are facing the threat of losing confidential information through cyber attacks, according to research published by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Spotlight

IT security jobs: What's in demand and how to meet it
Posted on 15 May 2013. | Let's say you want a career in information security, where do you start? What credentials do you need? What are employers looking for? Read on to find some answers.

Is Microsoft is reading your Skype communications?
Posted on 15 May 2013. | The question of whether Skype allows U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to access the communications exchanged by its users has still not been adequately answered by Microsoft.

Internet Explorer best at blocking malware
Posted on 14 May 2013. | While Chrome’s malware download protection improved significantly, Internet Explorer 10 continues to outperform the other browsers with a block rate of 99.96%.

Researcher refuses to help Saudi telco to spy on people
Posted on 14 May 2013. | You would think that a Saudi Arabian telecom firm interested in monitoring its users' mobile communications would not be asking a well-known pro-privacy researcher for help, but you would be wrong.

Malicious browser extensions are hijacking Facebook accounts
Posted on 13 May 2013. | Facebook users - especially those in Brazil - are being targeted with malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles, warns Microsoft.
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