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Cisco to Acquire ScanSafe

Cisco Systems announced its plan to acquire ScanSafe for $183 million. The networking giant plans to integrate the Web security company's cloud-based service into some of its existent products. Headquartered in San Francisco, but with offices in London and Tokyo, ScanSafe is a global provider of Web and Messagi...

28 October 2009
10:49 GMT

Gumblar, the Most Widespread Virus on the Internet in Q2

ScanSafe, a renowned SaaS Security provider, has issued its second Quarter Global Threat Report. The results present a dark image of the Internet, with various fields were virus attacks and web malware numbers have risen considerably from Q1 results. From all the malware, the feared Gumblar botnet is dominating the o...

14 August 2009
06:53 GMT

Paris Hilton's Website Compromised

Identity thieves hacked the website of the Hilton business empire heiress, Paris Hilton, and used it to distribute a financial information-stealing Trojan. The visitors of the website were prompted with a malware pushing dialog box masquerading as an update. High profile websites are always a target for identity thie...

14 January 2009
04:34 GMT

Live Global Map Displaying Internet Threats

ScanSafe has released a virtual global map that displays, almost in real time, the threats that the security team discovers and neutralizes. The map is updated every minute and shows the place of origin for each threat, the type of malware that is detected, and also the date and time when ScanSafe detects and blocks ...

22 August 2008
08:26 GMT

The Most Spammed American States Awards

Out of all the countries in the world, the United States are the most affected by spam (say security companies like Sophos and ScanSafe), followed closely by China. MessageLabs, company that specializes in providing messaging and Internet security solutions, has recently put together a top 10 of the most spammed US ...

17 July 2008
08:36 GMT

ScanSafe Reports an Increase in Infected Trusted Sites

According to a report recently released by ScanSafe, company that specializes in providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), malware related threats have increased by a staggering 278% in the first half of 2008. In June, 66% of all malware blocked by ScanSafe was related to legitimate web pages that had become compromise...

17 July 2008
05:51 GMT

Nigella Lawson Web Page Spreads Malware

ScanSafe, company that specializes in providing Internet security solutions, has recently revealed that the web page for popular British cook Nigella Lawson came under hacker attack, first detected at the beginning of the week. It is believed that visitors to the previously mentioned site may have been infected with ...

17 July 2008
04:46 GMT

Duncan MacMalware, the New Online Highlander

The pieces of malware used to compromise websites tend to become some sort of online highlander as they remain available longer than anytime before, security company ScanSafe revealed in a study published today. According to the findings, in the second half of the last year, the malware implemented into online websit...

31 March 2008
18:06 GMT


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