Internet security company Webroot today announced it has acquired BrightCloud, a Web content classification and security services provider. Webroot aims to integrate BrightCloud’s technology with its own proprietary malware detection and security-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the BrightCloud team will join Webroot’s Cloud Engineering team with an expanded focus on [...]
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A security
vendor has identified an online service offering to help anyone to hack into any
Facebook account for $100. However, those who sign up for the service could find
themselves becoming the victims instead.
Users of the service are required to
first register with the site and then provide an ID of the Facebook account they
want hacked. Users who [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2010 by admin
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The ongoing
case in Cook County Circuit Court also treads into the still developing arena of
Internet speech protection, experts say. Stone acknowledges that she hopes it
sets a precedent for protecting minors from potentially harmful chatter directed
at them online.
A woman was embroiled in a tough campaign for the
Village Board when the Daily Herald published an article about [...]
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Google’s English language search engine of spreading vulgar content that violated the nation’s law.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang did not directly answer a question about whether government action was responsible for recent disruptions in access to Google sites from within China.
But he made plain the [...]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Higher margins, the ability to collect and use information about customers, more revenue and greater willingness to share content with Internet operators is prompting Hollywood to join forces with the likes of Google’s YouTube or set up its own Internet portals.
Online video streaming and [...]
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Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking
a closer look at Internet communications in the future.
The Department of Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official
said that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is
designed to detect and prevent electronic attacks, to networks operated by the
private sector. The technology was created for federal networks. [...]
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