July 18, 2008
Bloxx to join Internet Watch Foundation
By Alan Harten
Bloxx, the web filtering specialist, today announced that it has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), joining around 80 members from a diverse range of organisations in their battle against illegal online content.
Eighteen months ago IWF released statistics regarding their activities, that revealed that they receive around 1,000 reports each month, which [...]
July 16, 2008
Webroot’s New Secure Online and Local Backup
By Alan Harten
Webroot, provider of security solutions for the consumer, enterprise and SME markets, today announced the availability of Webroot® Secure Backup, a new data backup solution for home PC users which protects digital photos, music and any other files from damage or loss.
Possibly the most popular service available at the moment is from Mozy who [...]
July 16, 2008
Finjan says cybercrime now more profitable
By Alan Harten
Finjan Inc., manufacturer of secure web gateway products, today announced the latest findings by its Malicious Code Research Centre (MCRC).
In its latest trends report for Q2 2008, the MCRC identifies and analyzes the latest Crimeware business operations, and provides an insider’s look at the organizational structure of Cybercrime organizations.
The report seems to indicate [...]
July 10, 2008
Arxan To Assist Federation Against Software Theft
By Alan Harten
Arxan Technologies, a provider of application hardening solutions designed to protect software from tampering and theft, has joined the Federation Against Software Theft as it extends its reach into the European market.
The Federation was the world’s first anti-piracy organisation working to protect the intellectual property of software publishers.
It was formed in 1984 and its [...]
July 8, 2008
Cyberoam Security’s Options For Emerging Threats
By Alan Harten
Cyberoam, which is part of Elitecore Technologies, and is a provider of Identity-based Unified Threat Management appliances, has announced the launch of the latest version of its Cyberoam firmware.
Cyberoam’s partnerships include OEM alliances with vendors like Kaspersky Lab, CommTouch, and The GreenBow.
Cyberoam Central Console enables enforcement of global policies for firewall, intrusion prevention [...]
July 7, 2008
Tier-3 Announces European Managing Director
By Rohan Parker
Australian security software company, Tier-3, has elected Steven Standring to fill the newly created position of Managing Director for their new European contingent.
Standring is to promote Tier-3’s Huntsman™ software solution in the region, with the aim of becoming Europe’s number one security software provider.
Tier-3 made a big splash in the market when they created [...]
July 4, 2008
194.8.75.x on big blog spam run
By Brian Turner
Various IP’s in the C class (/24) IP block 194.8.75.214 are running like the clappers with blog spam today.
The blog spam is being posted in high volume, and the spam all links to pages on free webhosting accounts, advertising typical high-paying affiliate keyword links.
Unusually for this sort of activity, the IP addresses used are from [...]
July 3, 2008
WatchGuard sees Extensible Network Security changes
By Alan Harten
WatchGuard Technologies, network security solutions provider, today announced what it calls its ‘vision’ of taking unified threat management (UTM) to the ‘next level’ of performance, scalability, high security, investment protection and end-user choice, with the company’s threat management (XTM) and connectivity solutions.
Four years ago analyst IDC came up with the term UTM as a description [...]