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For 2012, the worldwide software market grew 3.6% year over year reaching a total market size of $342 billion, according to IDC. 2012 confirms the beginning of a more …

A new study by the Ponemon Institute takes a deep dive into consumer perceptions around how organizations are securing their access, and what they would consider to be the …

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a widespread problem in the iGaming industry with hackers betting that they can make money from online gambling merchants by …

Qualys and FireMon announced the integration of QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM) and FireMon Security Manager with Risk Analyzer in FireMon’s upcoming 7.0 …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos and articles: Real-world test of 21 antivirus products AV-Comparatives have released …

A global study of consumer attitudes towards company stewardship of personal data conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that data breaches can cause major damage …

Dell announced SonicWALL Hosted Email Security 2.0, a cloud-based service providing multi-layered email threat protection backed by 24/7 online and phone support. Dell Email …

Cloud-based password unlocking service Password-Find introduced a new decrypting algorithm that unlocks half of Microsoft Office 2007/2010 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint …

Silent Circle announced the availability of the company’s new Silent Mail e-mail encryption service. Silent Mail addresses longstanding problems with e-mail encryption: …

Druva introduced free IT-managed endpoint backup for groups of up to 15 users with a new edition of Druva inSync, its integrated suite of backup, file sharing, data loss …

In financial services, with the hundreds of complex regulations that apply to data, private cloud adoption is still more common than the public cloud to date. However, that is …

More than one-third of surveyed European enterprises (36%) have experienced an increase in the frequency of network and data security-related incidents in the last 18 months, …