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Google Bouncer Gives Android Market Some Security Muscle
       NEWS ANALYSIS: The Android Market was kind of like the Wild West until Google Bouncer showed up as the new sheriff in town. - As peculiar as the after-the-fact announcement of Google Bouncer may have been, it was still good news. Perhaps Google was ramping up, trying to make sure that its Bouncer would work as intended and be able to handle the flood of new apps submitted to the Android Market. Perhaps the company just...



VeriSign Breach Not A Surprise, Attackers Target Everyone
       The VeriSign breach is an example of how no one is too secure or too big to be attacked. Security experts said targeted attacks on "high value" companies will continue. - Companies get breached. That's the lesson of 2011. Large or small, no organization is immune to attacks. The VeriSign breach was just another day of business as usual for the bad guys. Campaigns such as Operation Shady Rat, disclosed by McAfee, and Nitro, disclosed by Symantec, showed how eve...



Researchers Need to Focus on Defenses, Not Bug Hunting: Adobe
       Adobe wants researchers to focus on mitigation technologies that make it expensive for attackers to launch attacks, not hunting bugs. - CANCUN, Mexico – Security researchers need to shift their attention away from hunting for vulnerabilities and start thinking about ways to make it difficult create exploits, according to a security expert from Adobe. There is too much focus on vulnerabilities and defects in software, Brad Arkin...




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Troj/Invo-Zip
        1 New Troj/Invo-Zip 12%
W32/Netsky
        2 3 W32/Netsky 9.5%
Mal/EncPk-EI
        3 Re-entry Mal/EncPk-EI 7.8%