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| Feb 23, 2018 | Is a for sale sign on the horizon for your tech business? | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Parting ways with your tech baby may seem like an unbearable loss, but it’s something you should keep one eye on from an early stage, according to an entrepreneur who has done j... |
| Jul 30, 2015 | Employee negligence is major source of insider threats | Multitasking and working long hours, can result in employee negligence which leads to insider threats and costs companies millions of dollars each year.
A new survey of IT and security practitioners in the US and Germany carried out by the ... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | Websense Sold to Raytheon for $1.9B, Fulfilling Vista Equity’s Plan | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After more than a month of rumors that Austin, TX-based Websense and its private equity owners were looking for a buyer, Boston-area defense contractor Raytheon announced toda... |
| Mar 1, 2014 | Websense Moves Offices to Austin and Plans to Create 470 Jobs | Websense, a data security company, announced Friday plans to move its corporate headquarters to Austin and create 470 new jobs.
The city of Austin approved an incentive package estimated at $438,000 during the next ten years. The company al... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | Canada a hotbed of cyber-espionage activity: Four steps to ensure your computer isn't caught in the cybercrime wave (podcast) | Article content
Canada has become a hotbed of cyber espionage activity, with cyber criminals setting up virtual bases here to host attacks around the globe.
That is among the findings of the third annual Canadian Cybercrime Report Card rele... |
| May 20, 2013 | Websense, publicly traded since 2000, goes private in $906M buyout | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Websense, a product of the first dotcom boom, has... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Cool technology of the week | By John D. Halamka, MD
As IT departments throughout the country work to protect the privacy of and ensure the data integrity of patient records, it’s important to understand the threats we all face.
Websense has issued their 2012 threat rep... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Zenprise Raises $30 Million In New Funding | Mobile device management company Zenprise, Inc. today announced it has raised $30 million in new financing. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Greylock Partners, with participation from all of Zenprise’s existing investors.
The inves... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Faceboook brings in outside security | Websense partners with Facebook to beef up security
Facebook is starting off the week on a pro-security note by announcing its partnership with a content risk identifying company, Websense.
The San Diego-based online security company will b... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Facebook Partners With Websense To Protect Users From Malicious Sites And Malware | Facebook is announcing a partnership with security firm Websense today, in order to protect its users from dangerous links that lead to malicious websites and malware sites. Going forward, when a Facebook user clicks on a link, the new syst... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Websense and Facebook will protect users from malicious links | Social networks such as Facebook have always been vulnerable to malicious hackers who share viral links that lead users to malware and malicious sites. That’s why Facebook is teaming up with Websense to protect users by preventing them from... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Websense and Facebook will protect users from malicious links | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social networks such as Facebook have always been... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | ONI Report Details Western Complicity in Mideast Online Tyranny | Today, the OpenNet Inititative has released a report on the roles Western tech companies have played in enabling repressive Arabic regimes to filter and control the use of the Web by their citizens.
In the report, authors Helmi Noman and Ji... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | DEMO 2011 Roundup: The Eight Best Startups of Day 1 | The DEMO Spring 2011 conference kicked off yesterday in Palm Springs, featuring 27 startups in the consumer, enterprise, and cloud sectors. Each company was allowed six minutes to make their presentation and try to wow the audience with the... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | How Rich Are the Companies of DEMO 2011? | Over the next two days at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, California, more than 50 companies will take the stage and introduce their product in six minutes flat. It’s a format that has become an industry standard, with conferences like... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | DEMO: Websense protects company Facebook fan pages from malware | Websense is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.
Fac... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | DEMO: Websense protects company Facebook fan pages from malware | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Websense is one of 53 companies chosen by Venture... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | Report: The 3 Biggest Enterprise Website Malware Vulnerabilities | A white paper released today by malware monitoring company Dasient identifies third party elements beyond the control of company webmasters as the biggest security holes in most enterprise web sites. Specifically, Dasient identifies third p... |
| Mar 23, 2010 | DEMO: Teneros offers companies a way to track employees on social networks with Social Sentry | Teneros is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
Teneros’s Social Sentry may just be th... |
| Feb 9, 2010 | Websense Unveils TRITON™ Architecture Unifying Web, Data and Email Security | New TRITON Architecture Combines Websense Security Solutions for Greater Protection against Dynamic, Blended Threats at the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
READING, UK, February 9, 2010 — Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), a global leader in con... |
| Feb 8, 2010 | All that user-generated content? 95% is malware, spam | reader comments 48 with 44 posters participating
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The latest research from Websense Security Labs paints a dreary but familiar picture of the state of online security threat... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | NEW RESEARCH: Websense Security Labs Reports ‘User Trust' Targeted Attacks; More Than 1 in 10 ‘Top Search' Results Categorized as Malware; Increased Focus on Web 2.0 | SAN DIEGO - February 4, 2010 - Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) today revealed the findings from its bi-annual research report Websense Security Labs, State of Internet Security, Q3-Q4 2009. The full report can be downloaded at http://www.webs... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | Websense Launches First Ever Security Suite for Facebook | Websense has just launched a new security suite for the Web, a product called Defensio 2.0. The main selling point of this software is its ability to protect users from malicious content posted to their Facebook profiles. Using a combinatio... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Bit.ly Gets Smart on Twitter’s Pervasive Malware | Bit.ly, the reigning king of Twitter’s short URL service is taking a good hard look at malware. In a blog post published earlier today, the company announced a partnership with three security giants to beef up protection for the millions of... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | What's Behind That Short Link? Bit.ly Steps Up Its Efforts To Sniff Out Spam. | With the rise of Twitter, we’ve also seen the rise of link shorteners (standard URLS take up too many characters). The king of the link shorteners right now is bit.ly, which is the default shortener on Twitter and accounts for more than 75 ... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway 3.0: Regulating Social Media Usage At Work | The ever increasing popularity and usage of social networking sites, blogs, and instant messaging services in the workplace–while beneficial in many cases–is the cause of many security concerns for IT and security specialists. Human mistake... |
| Mar 24, 2009 | BorderWare Offers Comprehensive URL Filtering Software | Email and web security provider BorderWare Technologies is releasing a comprehensive URL filtering solution that could fill the gaps that currently exist with existing URL filtering measures. URL filtering is the common way to prevent users... |
| Jan 27, 2009 | Websense Acquires Spam Blocker Defensio | Website security software company Websense has acquired Defensio, a comment spam blocker used by blogs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Defensio competes with Akismet, the spam blocker that comes with WordPress, and Mollom. One of Def... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | San Diego’s “Predictive Analytics” Companies—The Map | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Already you are probably asking yourself, “What the heck is predictive analytics?”
It encompasses a variety of disciplines and technologies, typically using software that appl... |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Spammers bypass Google's Gmail signup security | An Internet research firm discovered spam bots are now able to register on Google's Gmail for spamming purposes. This latest attempt by spammers has been the most sophisticated recorded attempt to get around CAPTCHA, using both humans and b... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Gotcha, CAPTCHA! Gmail bot detector system cracked | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The Gmail CAPTCHA has been cracked—albeit not easily—raising new concerns about spammers' ability to abuse Google's e-mail serv... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Web 2.0 Threats Loom Large for IT | News Web 2.0 Threats Loom Large for IT By David NagelJanuary 29, 2008 With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education -- and all other sectors, for that matter -- face new challenges as control o... |
| Apr 5, 2007 | E-mail Scam Using .ANI Exploit Proves a Point | PERSPECTIVE Just days after BetaNews responded to a reader inquiry about the Windows Animated Cursor exploit, asking how it affects users who don't use animated cursors, by hypothetically suggesting a phishing site could e-mail .ANI files d... |
| Dec 31, 2006 | Websense buys information leak prevention co., PortAuthority for $90M | Websense, a Web security and filtering software company, will acquire PortAuthority of Palo Alto for about $90 million.
PortAuthority, which sells an information leak prevention technology, had raised about $46 million in financing from ALP... |
| Dec 27, 2006 | Botnets still a force to be reckoned with in 2007 | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Botnets have become a force to be reckoned with in the world of cybercrime. Since the rise of botnets as a real security threat... |
| Dec 19, 2006 | Purported Skype Worm a False Alarm | Consider an earlier warning by some news organizations that a self-propagating worm making its way through the Skype network a false alarm. Websense, the company that first disclosed the threat on Monday, retracted its earlier statements Tu... |
| Dec 5, 2006 | QuickTime Helps Spread MySpace Worm | An issue with how QuickTime handles JavaScript in conjunction with a MySpace vulnerability is spreading through the popular social networking site, security firm Websense reports.
The video and the associated script will change links within... |
| Feb 13, 2006 | Partner Watch, Feb. 13 | News Partner Watch, Feb. 13
Security specialists Websense and Network Engines team up with Microsoft to offer integrated solutions. By Dan HongFebruary 13, 2006 Websense Inc. and Network Engines Inc. announced a partnership with Microsoft C... |
| Feb 13, 2006 | Partner Watch, Feb. 13 | News Partner Watch, Feb. 13
Security specialists Websense and Network Engines team up with Microsoft to offer integrated solutions. By Dan HongFebruary 13, 2006 Websense Inc. and Network Engines Inc. announced a partnership with Microsoft C... |
| Apr 28, 2004 | Trying To Unravel Study About IT/Employee Security Disconnect | Websense, a company that is trying to sell filters to IT staff, has put out a new study talking about how there’s a disconnect between IT staff and employees when it comes to threats on their machines. Unfortunately, it also appears that th... |