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Computers, General news, Communications, Finance

McAfee Snags Security Startup

Antivirus giant agrees to acquire MX Logic, an email and Web security company, for up to $170 million. McAfee shares climb 5 percent Friday on the news.
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Archives, Computers, General news, Security, Communications, Internet, Finance

Symantec Nabs MessageLabs for $695M

Deal for MessageLabs, backed by Catalyst Investors, offers cross-selling opportunity but increases risk, analyst says.
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Archives, Computers, General news, Finance

UPDATE: McAfee Snaps Up Secure Computing for $413M

Security software firm taps $1.1B cash position to move further into enterprise and cloud.
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Archives, Computers, General news, Security, Internet, Finance

Botnet Armies on the March

As FBI arrests ‘bot-herders’ and studies warn of cyber-warfare, venture-backed companies such as Damballa, Fireeye battle the zombies.
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Computers, Finance

IBM Plans $1.5 Billion Security Spend

The world's largest technology services company on Thursday says it plans to spend a record $1.5 billion next year to develop and market security products.
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Archives, Computers, General news, Security, Finance

McAfee Snatches ScanAlert

McAfee is buying again. Flush with cash, the software security firm picks up ScanAlert just weeks after nabbing data encryption company SafeBoot. And McAfee still has $1.2 billion in cash possibly burning a hole in its pocket.
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Computers, Internet

Hackers Gaining Ground With Zombies

Computer security experts estimate that tens of millions of personal computers are infected with malicious software that gives hackers full control over the compromised machines.
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Security, Internet

McAfee Appoints New CEO

Security firm edges closer to normalcy.
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Security

Former McAfee Exec Charged

Software maker’s former general counsel charged in options probe.
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Security

Report: McAfee General Counsel to Face Charges

Top lawyer at security firm could be latest to face criminal charges in stock options backdating scandal.
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Finance

Apple Shares Jittery on Report

Computer maker’s shares plummet then recover on report of possible fake documents in options probe.
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Computers

Vice Valley?

Scandals again tarnish the tech sector's image.
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Computers

Vista will be Globally Punctual

Microsoft announces changes to its next operating system to meet pre-set deadline.
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Computers

McAfee CEO Out; President Fired

Security software developer to take $100-150 million charge related to options probe.
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Security

McAfee Buys Citadel: $56M

Security market consolidates further with purchase of publicly listed company.
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Computers

Red Herring Software Report

Red Herring magazine’s Software news briefs for the week of August 14, 2006.
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Security

Options Problem Hits McAfee

Security software developer says investors can’t rely on its past financial statements.
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Security, Internet

Yahoo Adds Symantec Security

As U.S. is named the leading spammer, Symantec says it will protect Yahoo users.
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Computers, Internet, Finance

Malware Turns to Open Source

Cyber criminals are using open-source ideas to do evil. 
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Computers

RH Software Report

Red Herring magazine’s software news briefs for the week of June 19, 2006.
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