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• China delays Green Dam initiation
  China has placed a temporary delay on the country wide installation of a new Internet filtering software hours before it was set to deploy, according to state media sources. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, stated that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology delayed the launch, citing the extensive time ...
  
  
• Neptuny presents new version of Caplan
  Neptuny received warm interest from the audience of the latest HP Software Universe, which took place in Las Vegas last week. The company was present both in the exhibition area and as a speaker in the Configuration Management track. Neptuny presented the new version of CaplanTM, the solution designed to "make ...
  
  
• Jackson’s death fuels malware attacks
  It seems that not even death is sacred on the internet. Security researchers' expectations came true when infections began spreading via email messages sent to users’ inboxes claiming to hold breaking news about Michael Jackson’s death from authoritative websites. Security companies Symantec, Trend Micro, and Sophos said that the emails are ...
  
  
• Free internet security barometer
  Interoute has launched a new tool called the internet security barometer that is available for free and can alert businesses and users to dangerous malicious activity while online. The barometer works by collecting data from sensors that are build into the structure of the European internet network and logging the source, ...
  
  
• Financial services firms use unsecured email
  Nearly nine in ten financial services providers do not secure their email communications, new research has discovered. A poll by Origo, the standards body for eCommerce in the UK financial services industry, found that 87% of financial services firms do not use a secure email system. Despite this, 94% said they use ...
  
  
• Hackers turn gamekeepers for UK cyber security
  The Government is using computer hackers who have reformed, in order to defend Britain and help the county guard against cyber attacks and internet crime gangs, since they know the tricks of the trade. Due to the fact that internet fraud amounts to billions of pounds annually and because of the ...
  
  
• Panda’s new 2010 software
  One of the hardest parts of using security software on your computer is that sometimes some of the best products negatively affect other things that you need to use. The good news is that Panda Security is launching a new line of security packages for 2010 that are aimed at providing ...
  
  
• SecureTwitter protects tweeters from malicious URLs
  Twitter users clicking on shortened URLs embedded in tweets risk unwittingly downloading malware. However, new free-to-downloand software from security specialist Finjan scans shortened URLs before they are clicked and warns users if the target site is malicious. The SecureTwitter plug-in comes as part of Finjan's existing SecureBrowsing suite, which provides security protection ...
  
  
• Finjan welcomes Google’s Anti-Malvertising.com Site
  Finjan, a leader in secure web gateway products and the provider of a unified web security solution for the enterprise market, has welcomed the launch of Anti-Malvertising.com by Google to assist its advertisers in spotting potential providers of malicious advertisements. In total, 45857 unique malicious, advertising, and potentially unwanted programs were ...
  
  
• Origin Storage supporting Women’s British Bobsleigh team
  Origin Storage, the portable secure storage specialists, announced today that they have renewed their sponsorship of the women’s British Bobsleigh team. The sponsorship deal will run until the end of the season which will see them through the winter Olympics in Canada. Andy Cordial, MD of Origin Storage, comments “Origin ...