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  • Websense Protects URL Shortening Service bit.ly

    Websense announced this week that it started working with bit.ly to prevent hackers from abusing the shortening service and tricking users into visiting sites hosting malicious content. One of the leading URL shortening services for social networking sites such as Twitter, bit.ly and others like it have been subject to a wide spectrum of chicanery…

  • Northrop Grumman Founds Cybersecurity Consortium

    Defense contractor Northrop Grumman addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week to announce a new private sector-academic cybersecurity consortium that it hopes will accelerate research to address growing threats to government and private-sector infrastructure. The results could put the system integrator at an even bigger advantage within the government security market .…

  • Webroot Launches New Web Protection, E-Mail Archiving Products

    Webroot released two products to the channel this week that its leaders believe will enable the channel to help customers better satisfy their web and e-mail risk and compliance requirements. The first release was an update to its SaaS Web Security Service which extends the service to outbound threat detection and adds more heuristic techniques…

  • Job Declines Slow in November, Says Payroll Firm ADP

    When is bad news really good news?  These days it’s when the news is less bad than it’s been. For example, in recent months public technology companies announcing their quarterly revenues have celebrated smaller declines, saying they hint at a slowing down of the free fall of this 2009 recession. And now ADP, the payroll…

  • Microsoft Says Security Updates Not Causing ‘Black Screen of Death’

    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it could find no evidence that recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some have dubbed the "black screen of death." The problem, which has caused a small number of users to see a completely black screen after logging on, was…

  • Cisco, Tandberg Acquisition Deal Is Do or Die

    Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) will announce Dec. 3 whether enough Tandberg (OSL:TAA) shareholders have accepted its offer, effectively enabling Cisco to acquire the video conferencing giant. Cisco says as of Dec. 1 it controlled about 84 percent of outstanding shares of Tandberg, but the company had set a 90 percent condition for its offer to acquire…

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