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Outsourcing, grid computing, and hacker professionalism are trends that cannot be stopped, and the sum total of those factors will have a dramatic effect on the way businesses attempt to protect their IT system in the future, researchers and analysts agree.The intersection of groundbreaking new IT architecture and previously unparalleled levels of professionalism among writers of malware attacks will result in an increasingly challenging electronic business environment, according to speakers at the ongoing Source Boston 2008 conferenc …

Ease of installation and use designed for small, mid-size companies; Product to be sold exclusively through resellers by company devoted to channel SAN DIEGO, March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PivotStor(TM) (www.pivotstor.com), a new company dedicated to delivering best-of-breed data protection, coupled with proven reliability and cost-effective performance, today introduced its new EP-Series(TM) email management appliance, designed to provide Email Lifecycle Protection(TM) to small and mid-sized organizations.PivotStor officials als …

Virus Attack Exposes Data of Central Oregon Hospital Donors A computer virus attack may have exposed the personal information of more than 11,000 people who donated to a Central Oregon hospital system.Cascade Healthcare Community says a computer virus attack hit its system in December, and the company noticed suspicious activity in the system in February. A computer forensics expert confirmed the virus had caused the breach.This hospital system says the names, dates of birth and potentially the credit card numbers of the donors were e …

41-year-old woman said to have earned 9.8 million dollars through scarewareProsecutors claim that internet users were fooled into purchasing Dr Virus by fake security warningsAccording to media reports, a 41-year-old woman has been charged with distributing bogus anti-virus software to over a million internet users.Lee Shin-ja, a former CEO of Media Port, is said to have earned over 9.2 billion won (approximately US $9.8 million) since 2005 with a free anti-spyware program that displayed fake security warnings and directed internet us …

Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab has a prototype version of its virus protection software waiting in the wings in case Apple Mac OS X suddenly becomes a target of choice for hackers.Kaspersky, based in Moscow, has no plans soon to make it into a product, but one could "be ready in just days," said Timur Tsoriev, spokesman, at the Cebit technology trade show in Germany on Tuesday.Kaspersky's anti-virus technology is flexible enough to work on different operating systems, said CEO Eugene Kaspersky. The company's analysts have also …

A Trojan called 'MonaRonaDona' is being used to sell fake anti-virus software, security company Kaspersky has warned.Unlike most viruses and Trojans which try to go about their evil task as invisibly as possible, the MonaDonaRona Trojan displays a broadly visibly message in front of the victim, said Kaspersky Lab researcher Roel Schouwenberg.Claiming to be part of a human rights protest, the message says: "Welcome to MonaRonaDona. I am a Virus & I am here to wreck your PC. If you observe strange behaviour with your PC, like program Wi …

In the security industry it's not hard to run into someone predicting the demise of the anti-virus industry. But the end game will take forever to play out.The common argument: Anti-virus software can never keep up, is outdated and outgunned against rapidly evolving threats. Websense CEO Gene Hodges recently said as much: "Modern attackware is much better crafted and stealthy than viruses so developing an antivirus signature out of sample doesn't work."His advice was to scrimp on anti-virus software and invest your budget money elsewh …

F-Secure Corp., a provider of IT security solutions to small and medium-sized companies, announced last week the launch of the latest version of its F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers solution, version 8. F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers version 8 features several performance improvements.Version 8 features F-Secure's new scanning technology, which is capable of meeting the evolving and targeted malware threat scenarios. Extensive testing of the beta version of the software also shows that the memory consumption of version …

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