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SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 17, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today released guidance to help organizations determine if they were targeted in the same sophisticated cyberattack that hit a growing list of companies, including Google. The high profile cyberattack, linked to China by Google, targeted valuable intellectual property. “This is the largest and most sophisticated
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today warned of separate, critical zero-day exploits in two of the most heavily used applications in the world: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer® and Adobe Reader®. According to preliminary reports, the Internet Explorer vulnerability has already been used in targeted attacks against 34 major corporations including Google and
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today warned of the rapid spread of malware intended for users of Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access. The unsolicited message directs users to “apply a new set of settings” to their mailboxes to update several “security upgrades” that have been applied. The link in the e-mail
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After the relationship with Kaspersky Lab’s former distribution partner in the Benelux was terminated due to systematic breaches from the partner’s side in December 2009, the company has changed its support structure for the region. All licenses sold by the former distribution partner will retain their current validity and will be fully supported and maintained
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Microsoft has released their January 2010 Security Bulletin. One bulletin has been released. Affected components include Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint, and Word. The bulletin is rated as ‘Critical’ and carries a potential impact of remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 13, 2010 – Today McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), the world’s leading dedicated security company, and Facebook announced an unprecedented collaboration that will provide additional security protection to a significant portion of the Internet population. Through this partnership, the two companies have jointly created security solutions that include McAfee security software, a custom
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 12, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Gideon Technologies, Inc., a provider of standards-based information security solutions that automate and orchestrate IT security and risk management. Symantec is acquiring Gideon Technologies to extend Symantec’s security portfolio with a leading
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 12, 2010 – McAfee Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., a premier research and advisory firm, in the Leaders Quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway” report published on January 8, 2010 (written by: Peter Firstbrook and Lawrence Orans). This report evaluates 17 vendors.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 11, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released the findings of its 2010 State of the Data Center study. Now in its third year, the study found that mid-sized enterprises (2,000 to 9,999 employees) are more likely to adopt cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, deduplication, replication, storage virtualization,
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 11, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced new members to its McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance™ program. Since October 2009, eight new members have joined the program as Associate Partners, including: In addition, the following eight partners now have “McAfee Compatible” solutions and have been promoted to Technology Partner status in
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