Security budgets are falling, survey says A Deloitte survey of over 200 information security officers in the high-tech, media and telecommunications sectors shows that 32% face reduced information-security budgets. The Deloitte 2009 Global Security Survey for the technology, media & telecommunications industry also said that the information-security managers are less inclined to invest in new security technologies as early adopters than they were in 2007, the last time the survey was undertaken. McAfee buying Solidcore for whitelisting technology McAfee today announced it intends to acquire Solidcore Systems for about $33 million in cash and an additional $14 million if certain performance targets are met. McAfee indicated its interest in the acquisition centered on Solidcore’s whitelisting technology that can set controls on what applications are allowed to run on a computer. After the acquisition is completed, McAfee expects to bring Solidcore’s whitelisting and compliance enforcement mechanisms into the McAfee product line under the management umbrella of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management console. Web attacks routinely hosted by real Web sites The number of legitimate websites being hacked to host malware has hit startling highs in recent days, new figures from MessageLabs have revealed. Data taken from the days between the 4th to 8th of May showed that 84.6 percent of websites blocked by the company for hosting malicious content were 'well-established' domains that have been around for a year or more. Dark cloud computing Cloud computing offers tremendous promise for the future of computing. In the cloud you will be able to link together remote computing resources to achieve massive amounts of computing without any of the capital infrastructure costs. |
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