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IT trainer offers master's degree for hackers
In an effort to produce the next generation of chief security officers and IT systems defense experts, an online training company is offering a new master's degree program in security science.
October 8, 10:47 a.m. PDT

VMware to release SMB virtualization kits by year end
VMware said Monday it will release three software packages by the end of the year to help SMBs take on virtualization projects.
October 8, 10:19 a.m. PDT

Security vendors bring zombie fighters to life
Data leakage prevention might currently be the hottest IT security submarket, but vendors are also tuning up their product offerings to help customers ward off the presence of botnet-infected zombie computers.
October 4, 3:41 p.m. PDT

Malware boom puts pressure on second-tier AV labs
Over the first six months of 2007, anti-virus applications market leader Symantec found a total of 212,101 new malware variants, an astonishing 185 percent increase over the second half of 2006, totaling an average of well over 1,100 unique samples arriving per day.
October 3, 7:08 a.m. PDT

PCI experts say deadline is just the beginning
The deadline for retailers and other companies that handle credit card data to achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard has passed, but experts say that only a few large firms are already prepared to go under the microscope via external audits.
October 1, 3:14 p.m. PDT

Microsoft: We have services, too
Microsoft has taken another baby step into on-demand services, with a bundle of small announcements that amount to a little rebranding here, and a couple of new services there. The new offerings are Office Live Workspace -- a free, personal, Web-based document storage and collaboration space hosted by Microsoft -- and a fresh edition of the company's Dynamics Live CRM product.
October 1, 12:01 a.m. PDT

Tech giants chart research goals
Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.
September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT

SWsoft sees future in multiplatform management
SWsoft, the company behind the Parallels Desktop virtualization software for Macintosh, expects to release a beta version of a server edition of the software in the next four to six weeks. It is also working on new management tools for the datacenter that will control other vendors' virtualization products.
September 26, 4:09 a.m. PDT

Security experts pitch 'culture of data'
The companies that are having the most success in advancing their data security efforts today are those that are finding a way to protect sensitive information without getting in the way of business users, industry experts maintain.
September 25, 2:53 p.m. PDT

Security outsourcing on the rise
As one of the world's largest outsourcing providers, Wipro Technologies is ramping up its security services business in a big way.
September 20, 2:30 p.m. PDT

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