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  • Kaspersky to Open Local Office

    Web security firm Kaspersky Labs is expanding its footprint down under, with its founder Eugene Kaspersky in Australia to announce the company’s new Melbourne office.

  • Malware Plays on Patch Tuesday

    Malware writers are targeting Microsoft’s traditional “patch Tuesday” this week, with an email masquerading as an update from Microsoft’s official update centre hitting inboxes with a malicious payload.

  • Seagate to Serve up SSDs in 2009

    Seagate has announced that it is diving headlong into the solid state disk (SSD) market, first concentrating on enterprise customers and then moving further down the chain to consumers.

  • Kingston Announces 32GB Flash Key

    Kingston has rolling out a new 32GB USB flash drive, giving road warriors enough space to carry all of their documents and other digital content next to their keys.

  • EDS Loses Sensitive MoD Data

    It seems that barely a week goes by these days without a fresh story of grievous data loss with a UK government department somehow involved. This week, the UK Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into a missing hard drive, pot...

  • NetApp De-dupes Genome Data

    While genome scientists continue to do groundbreaking work, the process of creating and analysing genomic information requires a substantial amount of data storage capacity. To head this exponential growth off at the pass, NetApp has annou...

  • Scientists Demonstrate “Unbreakable” Encryption

    Scientists in the European Union have shown off a new and apparently unhackable encryption system, paving the way for government agencies, financial institutions or companies with distributed subsidiaries to encrypt communications without fear of security breaches.

  • Tag Team for Email Security

    Proofpoint 5.5, the latest version of the company's integrated email and data security solution, offers improved bounce management features that block 100 percent of "backscatter" spam.