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Clampi Trojan Renews Assault on Bank Accounts
Sporadic reports are surfacing that the authentication credential stealing Trojan Clampi is regaining momentum and poised to begin a new round of stealthily siphoning cash from the bank accounts belonging to compromised users. Clampi—also known as Ligats, Ilomo and Rscan—was first discovered in January 2008. The Trojan targets machines running nearly all versions of Windows…
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Seagate Releases Self-Encrypting Drive Option for Enterprise Disk Portfolio
Seagate Technology this week released to the channel a new option to add full disk encryption to enterprise-class hard drives. Designed to offer a cost-effective means for highly regulated enterprises in such industries as health care and finance to comply with security mandates, Seagate’s Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology has long been an option within…
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Panda Targets Symantec, McAfee with Revamped Channel Program
Spain-based Panda Security has nibbled in the North America antivirus and endpoint security market for nearly a decade, but never gained traction against giants such as Symantec and McAfee. Now with the market leaders increasingly diversifying their portfolios, Panda says it believes it has an opportunity to more than crack the market, and the wedge…
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Westcon Group Creates Comstor Worldwide to Sell Cisco Gear
Looking to sharpen its focus for Cisco products and customers, specialty networking distributor Westcon Group says that Cisco products will now be sold worldwide through the Comstor brand widely known for Cisco sales – creating a Comstor Worldwide organization. The change is expected to enable partners to leverage more resources, says longtime Comstor executive Bill…
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Trust No Site Web Borne Threats Continue to Skyrocket
Trust No Site Web Borne Threats Continue to Skyrocket This week Websense Security Labs revealed the results from research conducted thus far in 2009 within its State of Internet Security report. Channel Insider dives into the stats and examines the report highlights. By Ericka Chickowski No Title The number of malicious sites found by Websense…
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CA Buys NetQoS for $200 Million
CA continues its push to support enterprise cloud efforts by picking up the network performance management firm NetQoS for $200 million. The buy puts CA in charge of a fully-developed suite of network flow monitoring, unified communications management and response time analytic network solutions that should conceivably fill in some gaps within its service delivery…
