A screen shot of McAfee SecurityCenter (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Intel ( www.intel.com ) announced on Tuesday via its website that it has received approval from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed acquisition of McAfee. In August, Intel announced it was planning to acquire the security vendor for $7.68 billion , making it the largest acquisition in its history. The acquisition would boost Intel’s position in the ever-expanding market of security-conscious businesses and consumers.

A screen shot of McAfee SecurityCenter (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Intel ( www.intel.com ) announced on Tuesday via its website that it has received approval from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed acquisition of McAfee. In August, Intel announced it was planning to acquire the security vendor for $7.68 billion , making it the largest acquisition in its history. The acquisition would boost Intel’s position in the ever-expanding market of security-conscious businesses and consumers

Networked Scanners Offer A Window Into The Enterprise, Researcher Says It happens every day — a sensitive document lies in the copier room, forgotten by the person who left it on the scanner. No big deal, right? Nobody else was able to read it.

Hackers built Stuxnet industrial worm more than a year ago A sophisticated worm designed to steal industrial secrets has been around for much longer than previously thought, according to security experts investigating the malicious software. Called Stuxnet, the worm was unknown until mid-July, when it was identified by investigators with VirusBlockAda, a security vendor based in Minsk, Belarus. The worm is notable not only for its technical sophistication, but also for the fact that it targets the industrial control system computers designed to run factories and power plants.

Virus writers are picking up new Microsoft attack The Windows attack used by a recently discovered worm is being picked up by other virus writers and will soon become much more widespread, according to security vendor Eset. Eset reported Thursday that two new families of malicious software have popped up, both of which exploit a vulnerability in the way Windows processes .link files, used to provide shortcuts to other files on the system

20 percent of Android apps can threaten privacy, says vendor Twenty percent of applications on Android Market let third parties access private or sensitive information, according to a report from security vendor SMobile Systems. SMobile, which develops software for protecting smartphones, has performed an analysis of over 48,000 applications available on Android Market, and looked at what permissions are granted to the application by the mobile operating system. ..

Product Watch: Fortify Offers To Help Enterprises Move Apps To The Cloud If you aren’t sure whether your apps are ready to run securely in a cloud environment, then they probably aren’t, security vendor Fortify Software said today.