Vista Equity Partners to Buy Websense

Sharon Terlep and Dana Cimilluca, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News May 20, 2013 at 11:41 am PT

Buyout firm Vista Equity Partners agreed to pay about $1 billion to acquire Websense Inc., a maker of software and services designed to help protect companies against cyber attacks and data theft.

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Pentagon Clears iPhone and iPad for Use on Secure Networks

John Paczkowski in Mobile May 17, 2013 at 8:08 am PT

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“We Need a Plan B for the Internet,” Warns Internet Pioneer Danny Hillis

in News on February 27 at 9:47 am PT

“We don’t know the consequences of what an effective denial-of-service attack on the Internet would be. So what we need is a plan B.”
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Maybe “Being the Product” Isn’t So Bad: Why Data Harvesting Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare

in News on January 10 at 6:30 am PT

We already give up massive amounts of personal data on a daily basis. It’s payback time.
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FTC to Settle With Analytics Firm Compete Over Data Collection Privacy and Security

in News on October 22, 2012 at 10:19 am PT

Compete said it would be audited every two years for the next 20, and would also give users better anonymization, consent agreements and disclosures.
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News Byte

Last.fm Also Had User Passwords Leak

in News on June 7, 2012 at 9:57 am PT

Last.fm said today in a public notice online that it was investigating a leak of user passwords, following similar disclosures from LinkedIn and eHarmony yesterday. None of the companies have explained how the passwords got out in the first place.

LinkedIn Tells Users to Change Passwords, Confirms Breach

in News on June 6, 2012 at 11:57 am PT

LinkedIn confirmed it had suffered a breach of “some” user passwords and said it had isolated those accounts and would take steps to make passwords more secure.
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Now 50 Million Daily Users Strong, OpenDNS Wants to Be “the Akamai for Security”

in Enterprise on May 25, 2012 at 8:22 am PT

OpenDNS founder and CEO David Ulevitch wants his company to become “the Akamai for security.”
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GitHub Now Has a Windows Client

in News on May 21, 2012 at 9:30 am PT

GitHub, the collaboration and version-control site for open source and corporate developers, today is launching a Windows client.
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News Byte

Kickstarter Bug Exposed Unreleased Projects, but Mostly to The Wall Street Journal

in Commerce on May 14, 2012 at 8:45 am PT

For the last three weeks, Kickstarter had a security hole that allowed viewing of unreleased project proposals — but no account or financial info — through its API. The Wall Street Journal, which discovered the problem, downloaded 77,000 projects and drafts from the site. But aside from that, Kickstarter said in a blog post, only 48 unlaunched projects were accessed while the bug was live, some of them by Kickstarter’s engineers working on its API.

Following Path Address Book Uproar, Many Apps Clean Up Their Acts

in Social on February 15, 2012 at 7:18 am PT

App makers, including giants like Twitter and Yelp, say they are updating the way they ask for users’ permission to share their contacts.
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Twitter Buys Security Hacker’s Android Start-Up

in Social on November 28, 2011 at 11:42 am PT

Twitter has acquired Whisper Systems, a small mobile security start-up founded last year by security hacker Moxie Marlinspike.
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Facebook Bars Jailbirds

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, August 9, 2011 at 9:57 am PT

Facebook Steps Up Security After Tunisian Hacks

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, January 26, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

Cheezburger's $30M Gets the Taiwanese Animator Send-Up

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, January 21, 2011 at 9:31 am PT

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Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, December 19, 2010 at 10:00 pm PT

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