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Enhance Your Security Posture: Doing Four Things Can Reduce Unauthorized Penetrations by 85%

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Malware Defenses. href="[link] Control 5: Malware Defenses. In October 2011, the SANS Institute announced that the U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for 2011 went to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate (that’s right, the U.S. Washington DC, October 24, 2011. Application Software Security.

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

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in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. In the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M

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Security News: @Invincea Raises $16 Million in C-Series Funding Led by Aeris Capital and Dell Ventures

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“In June of 2013, we began shipping a solution powered by Invincea — Dell Data Protection | Protected Workspace — to provide our customers with advanced malware protection out of the box. Invincea is the premier innovator in advanced malware threat detection, breach prevention, and forensic threat intelligence.

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DOE’s secret weapon: Supercomputers, Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email and more

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White House looks to public for ideas on open gov – “The first National Action Plan on Open Government was released in September 2011 and laid out 26 steps to promote increased transparency, public participation in government and more efficient management of public resources.” ” Via FedScoop, more here.

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Cisco Talos: Zeus spawn “Floki bot” malware gaining use, cyber-underworld notoriety

Network World

Floki bot] is based on the same codebase that was used by the infamous Zeus trojan, the source code of which was leaked in 2011. Cisco’s Talos security group this week warned that a variant of trojan monster Zeus has begun to garner a following in the cyber-underworld as a hard-to-detect attack mechanism.

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Update on Invincea: Another year of breakthrough growth

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8,935,773 for “Malware Detector.”. Grew revenue in Invincea Labs research division by 150% over 2013, while successfully launching its Cynomix crowdsourced malware analysis platform in Invincea Research Edition and at Cynomix.org. Hundreds of malware forensic analysts are now using Invincea Research Edition. Linked In: [link].

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Dept. of Justice credits Microsoft with identifying tech-support fraud scheme that targeted seniors

GeekWire

According to a DOJ news release, the complaint filed in October alleged that Cotter worked with co-conspirators in India from at least 2011 to 2020 to operate a technical-support fraud scheme. The order bars all from selling technical-support services or software via telemarketing or websites.

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