PerspecSys, the Toronto-based cloud data protection company, has closed $12 million in its second round of funding. The company plans to use the capital injection to further develop global sales and marketing efforts and continue product development.
Security heavyweight McAfee has agreed to acquire network firewall business Stonesoft for $389 million in cash so it can offer more powerful firewall protection to its clients.
Symantec and McAfee need to stop focusing on anti-virus software and start solving bigger problems or they run the risk of becoming obsolete, says KPCB's Ted Schlein.
The Federal Communications Commission wants people to get smarter about their phones as we head into the holiday season -- a time for giving gadgets.
Dave DeWalt -- known for his big personality, top-secret government clearance, and work as former chief executive at McAfee -- is taking over as chief executive for security company FireEye today. He hopes to lead the company to an IPO quickly.
There once was a time when the biggest shopping scams were overpriced department stores and fake purses. But now shoppers should be on alert for Cyber Monday, the Internet's answer to Black Friday, which creates a whole knew arena for ripping you off.
Symantec is catching up to competitors today, with the latest version of its Norton Mobile Security offering. The new version lets you backup your contacts and puts a strong focus on a web dashboard where you can manage your devices.
Police in Belize are looking for John McAfee, founder of security giant McAfee and Belize resident, for questioning around the weekend murder of fellow expatriate Gregory Faull.
Mobile malware has exploded this year, growing almost 700 percent over 2011 numbers. Almost all of it, perhaps 85 percent, targets smartphones running Android.
Dave DeWalt is the chairman of FireEye, a threat-detection computer security company
Online security threats have taken a new, darker turn in the past few years. Instead of script kiddies and credit-card hackers, the dominant threats now are government-backed entities.
If you’re a kid with a pulse and an Internet connection, chances are you’ve used your computer to do something improper. And if you’re a parent – well, you have no idea just how bad your kids can get.
So …
Seventeen percent of personal computers around the world are not using anti-virus software, or as McAfee’s co-president Todd Gebhart puts it, “walking around naked on the Internet.”
The anti-virus creator and research firm recently performed a study of 28 million …
We’ve known for a while that spam was jumping on the Pinterest train. Now, security software service McAfee is sending out an official warning to keep an eye out for fraudulent pins.
According to McAfee, hackers have created entire toolkits …
If you think people of the cloth are out of touch with modern technology, think again. A bishop of the Church of England just gave his congregation some security advice; if you want a hard-to-crack password that you’ll remember, pick a passage in …
McAfee released its online security threat predictions for 2012 today, predicting that much of the hacking drama that started in 2011 will only grow in the new year.
When technology evolves, so do cyber criminals’ tactics for compromising new software, …
Cloud storage company Box announced three new security features and a partnership with Intel today, in hopes of bringing cloud security to a place where CIOs are no longer afraid of it.
The cloud is a very useful place to …
Android malware has jumped 37 percent in the third quarter of 2011, according to a new quarterly report released by security provider McAfee. Where our phones go, so too go viruses, especially on the Android platform.
“Nearly all new mobile …
While Intel is known as the world’s biggest chip maker, but it also wants to be known as a leader in software.
The Santa Clara-based company made that clear today at an event in San Francisco. Intel representatives highlighted the …
An extensive survey of businesses shows that cyberattacks are a growing threat to corporations of all kinds. Companies consider safeguarding their networks to be critically important to their business, resulting in substantial costs.
As more employees work remotely and use …
If you want to buy a million email addresses from criminal hackers, the going rate is $25, according to a second quarter report from antivirus firm McAfee.
The new McAfee Q2 2011 Threats Report also shows that mobile malware is …
